Jordi Mateu (Llardecans, 1975) received the Telecommunication Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, in 1999 and 2003, respectively.

In October 2006, he joint the Signal Theory and Communications Department, UPC, initially as a Ramon-y-Cajal Research Fellow and currently as Associate Professor since March 2009. Since 2007 he is also Associate Researcher at CTTC. From May to August 2001, he was Visiting Researcher with Superconductor Technologies Inc., Santa Barbara CA. From October 2002 to August 2005, he was research associate with CTTC, Spain. Since September 2004, he has held several guest researcher appointments at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO, where he was Fulbright Research Fellow from September 2005 to October 2006. In July 2006, he was visiting Researcher at Lincoln Lab., MIT. From September 2003 to August 2005, he was Part-time Assistant professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In summer 1999, after graduation, he hold a trainee engineer position at Investment Technology department, Gillette, UK. He authored or co-authored over 40 papers in international journal, more than 55 contributions in international conferences, three book chapter and holds two patents. He collaborated and lead several research project for national and international public  and private organizations and companies. He was Technical Manager for the ESA project, Design and synthesis of a new class of receiver filters (2008-2010).

His primary interest includes microwave devices and system and characterization and modeling of new electronic materials including ferroelectrics, magnetoelectric, superconductors and acoustic devices. His recent research also includes the synthesis, design and development of novel microwave filtering structures. 

Dr. Mateu was the recipient of the 2004 Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Fundamental and Basic Technologies for Information and Communications by COIT (Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación) and AEIT (Asociación Española de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación). He was also the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship, an Occasional Lecturer Award for visiting MIT and a Ramón y Cajal Contract. From February 2011 to June 2012 he was Vice-Dean of Academic Affairs at  Telecomunication and Aerospace Engineering  School at UPC. He is IEEE Senior member.  He is reviewer of several journals and international conferences.