CAROLINA PINART GILBERGA (Barcelona, 1975) is a graduate and PhD in Telecommunications Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (April 1999 and Dec. 2005). Since Dec. 2009, she is a Senior Manager in the Global eHealth Unit of Telefónica's New Business & Innovation Direction (Madrid, Spain).

From 2007 to 2009, she acted as the Head of Telefónica I+D's Networked Vehicles Division (Madrid, Spain) with the mission of launching the Connected Car new business in the Telefónica Group. From 2001 to 2007, she worked for the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC, Barcelona, Spain) as the Director of Institutional Relations. Her duties involved relations with CTTC's board and advisory bodies, internal management, including the rewards program, and communication. In parallel, she collaborated with CTTC's Optical Networking Area, where she is a part-time Industry Associate Researcher since September 2007. In the summers of 2006 and 2008, Dr. Pinart was a Visiting Researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Tokyo, Japan). From 1999 to 2001, as a consultant for Altran (Paris, France), she worked in innovation projects for the telco (Ericsson, FERMA/Mobinil) and automotive (Renault R&D) sectors. From 1998 to 1999, she served as an undergraduate researcher for Siemens AG (Munich, Germany). 

Since 2000, she has participated in 18 public-funded R&D projects in wireless and optical networking: European FP (INFORM, ITSWAP, DIAMOND, TPEG, ANWIRE, NOBEL, NOBEL2, ePhoton/ONe+, BONE, TeleFOT), EUREKA (TBONES, PROMISE) and COST Action 270, Spanish (EMPIRICO, RESPLANDOR, m:Vía, DORADO) and bilateral (GAUDI). Dr. Pinart has 55+ scientific publications, has given 10+ speeches and supervised 8 students (2 Masters Theses) both standalone and in collaboration with Universities. During her research career, she has obtained a Post-Graduate Prize by the Fundació Agrupació Mútua (2003), a Best PhD Dissertation Prize by the Spanish Association of Telecom Engineers (2006) and a Post-Doc Fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2006).