José A. López-Salcedo is since 2013  Professor at the Department of Telecommunication and Systems Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He is the Coordinator of the Telecommunication Engineering studies at UAB.

Professor López-Salcedo received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona. He has been Research Assistant in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC and involved in R+D projects dealing with synchronization techniques for digital receivers, satellite communications and iterative decoding techniques for MIMO wireless systems, both for private industry and public administrations.

Professor López-Salcedo was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Irvine, USA, and at the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has also held positions as a Scientific Support Officer at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Center, Ispra in Italy. His research interests are in the field of statistical signal processing, focusing on estimation theory, detection theory and applications to wireless communications and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).

Professor López-Salcedo is a member of the Continuing Education Institute-Europe Faculty as of 2018.