Andres Fernandez PhD

Andres Martinez Fernandez is a Vice-Rector for Quality and Strategy and Professor of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications and Telematic Systems and Computing at the URJC. He is a Doctor of Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he obtained the extraordinary doctorate award in 2003. He has been Deputy Director of Teaching Organization at the ETSIT-URJC between 2005 and 2009 and Academic Secretary of his department from 2014 to 2017. He has been a member of the Ashoka Social Entrepreneurs Network since 2009. He directed the Master in Telecommunication Networks for Developing Countries at the URJC for several years and has currently recognized 5 five-year teaching periods, 3 six-year research periods, and 1 transfer period.

His main line of research is oriented towards the application of information and communication technologies to improve the quality of life of isolated and dispersed populations in developing countries, working especially on rural communications and telemedicine. In this field, he has directed a multitude of research projects financed by national and international entities such as the European Commission, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Andean Development Corporation, the AECID, or USAID. He has published numerous articles in high-impact indexed journals and edited and written several books on the subject. He promoted the creation and coordinated the EHAS Foundation from its beginnings. He has carried out research stays at several prestigious universities, as well as at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington DC.