Ángeles Vázquez-Castro is an Associate Professor with the Telecommunications and Systems Engineering Dpt. at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, where she teaches and leads research activities on wireless communications and networking.
She has been invited by several research centres both in US and Europe such as University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles, and the European Space Agency, The Netherlands, where she was a research fellow for two years. She actively participates and leads international research projects won by open competition.
She has co-authorised several book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed publications, three of which have received best paper awards. She holds two patents, contributes to different standardization bodies and is member of the Technical Committees of the IEEE Communications Society conferences.
Her current interests in this field are wireless resources optimization and coding for wireless networking.