Arturo Azcorra
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| Born | Arturo Azcorra November 11, 1962 Santurce, Vizcaya, Spain |
| Residence | Madrid, Spain |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Fields | Computer Science, Telematics (Information and Communications Technology) and Telecommunications Engineering |
| Institutions | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Charles III University of Madrid) IMDEA Networks Institute |
| Alma mater | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) (Technical University of Madrid) |
| Thesis | Modelado formal de sistemas síncronos (1990) |
| Known for | Research on network science, telecommunications and telematics |
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Arturo Azcorra (born November 8, 1962, in Santurce, Spain) is a Spanish computer scientist and telecommunications engineer, who is recognized as a pioneer of internet and network science research in Spain, as well as a promoter of telematics as a scientific and academic discipline born from the integration of telecommunications and informatics.
Azcorra graduated from Loy Norrix High School (Michigan, USA) in 1980. In 1986, he received his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the (Technical University of Madrid) (Madrid, Spain), with the "Sobresaliente" (Outstanding) grade, and was subsequently awarded the Price Waterhouse Prize for Best Student in 1986. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the same university in 1989, receiving the National Award COIT-AEIT-ANIEL (AMETIC) for Best Thesis (Premio Nacional a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral). In 1993, he obtained an MBA from the , graduating first in his class.
He began his career in the Madrid Metropolitan Company (), where he developed the software for ten-trip tickets and monthly passes, while simultaneously performing research work in telecommunications at the UPM. He was an Associate Professor at UPM from 1989 to 1998, the year he moved to the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) (Charles III University of Madrid) where he became Full Professor and founder of the NETCOM Research Group on Networks and Communication Technologies, which he has coordinated since, at the Department of Telematics Engineering. He was later on appointed Deputy Vice-Provost for Academic Infrastructures at the UC3M and held this post from 2000 to 2007. He was a Visiting Researcher at ICSI University of California at Berkeley (USA) in 1999 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (USA) in 2002. In 1998 he was appointed Director of the UC3M Telefónica Chair and worked in this role until 2009. In June 2002 he earned the distinction of being named IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior Member. From 2003-2008 he was Director of REDIMadrid, the Telematics Research Network of the Community of Madrid. From 2006 to November 2009 he was Director of the international research IMDEA Networks Institute.In November 2009 he was appointed Director General for Technology Transfer and Corporate Development at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)(now known as Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness / ), a position he held until his appointment as Director General at the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (), an agency of the MICINN, on May 30, 2010. In February 2012 he resigned as Director General of CDTI and returned to his post as Full Professor at the Department of Telematics Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Director of IMDEA Networks Institute.
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