F. Javier Lopez-Martinez, personal website

Awards and Recognition


  • Best paper award in IEEE ETCM 2023 (Communications Track), “The Lomax Distribution for Wireless Channel Modeling: a Preliminary Study”.

  • Outstanding Service Award by the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee in 2022 link.

  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters exemplary reviewer 2021 link.

  • IEEE Transactions on Communications exemplary reviewer 2014, 2016 and 2019 link.

  • IEEE Communications Letters exemplary reviewer 2014, 2019 and 2023 link.

  • Best paper award in IEEE Globecom 2013 (Communication Theory symposium), “Average Fade Duration for Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks in Log-Normal Fading”.

  • VI University of Malaga Research Awards 2012, Fundacion General Univ. Malaga. Best Young Researcher Award in Engineering & Architecture (2nd prize), awarded to the paper “Exact Closed-Form BER Analysis of OFDM systems in the presence of IQ imbalances and ICSI”.

  • Malaga Research Award in the field of Sciences 2012, by Malaga Academy of Sciences. Awarded to the project “Cooperative generation of coverage maps for mobile networks in Malaga using automated measurements”, jointly with Alejandro Hierrezuelo Crespillo.

  • Marie Curie Fellowship under COFUND Programme U-mobility, Aug 2012-Aug 2015.

  • Mobility grant funded by Spanish Ministry of Innovation. Research stay at UCL London, May-Aug 2010.

  • 4-year grant at Communication Engineering Dept. University of Malaga. Awarded by Junta de Andalucia 2009.

  • Best Master Thesis in Advanced Mobile Communications, National Association of Telecomunication Engineers – Sponsored by Vodafone, 2005. Master thesis: “Transceiver Design for W-MAN”.

  • Best Master Thesis in Wireless & Mobile Communications, AT4 Wireless & University of Malaga, 2005. Master thesis: “Transceiver Design for W-MAN”.

  • Best Master Thesis, Andalusian Association of Telecommunication Engineers, 2005. Master thesis: “Transceiver Design for W-MAN”.

  • Best academic record in engineering, Diario el Pais & University of Malaga, 2005.

Invited Talks


  • “Moving from 4G to 5G: Some research directions”, School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Granada (08-May-2014)

  • “Average Fade Duration for Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks in Fading Channels”, Wireless Systems Lab, EE Department, Stanford University (10-Jan-2014)

  • “On the dynamics of sampled random processes”, Wireless Systems Labs, EE Department, Stanford University (02-Nov-2012).

  • “Higher order statistics of sampled fading channels: analysis and applications”, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (27-Feb-2012)