Raül Muñoz (Vic, 1977) is a graduate in Telecommunications Engineering in 2001 and has completed a PhD degree in Telecommunications in 2005, both from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Barcelona). Currently, he is Senior Research Associate and Coordinator of the Optical Networking Area of the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC, Barcelona).

Previously, he worked as undergraduate researcher at Telecom Italia Lab (TILAB, Turin, Italy, November 2000 to April 2001), participating in the IST LION project as part of his M.Sc Thesis, as Research Assistant (UPC's Optical Communications Group, UPC, 2001) for the R&D Catalan Government's project I2-CAT and as Teaching Assistant in Optical Communications laboratory and Optical Networks (UPC, September 2001 to January 2002). In February 2002, he joined to CTTC's Optical Networking Area as Research Assistant. From March 2003 to July 2005, he was Coordinator of the ADRENALINE testbed. 

Since 2002, he has participated in over 20 publicly funded R&D and technology transfer projects in optical networking: European (FP7 IP STRONGEST and NoE BONE, FP6 IP NOBEL and NOBEL2, FP6 NoE E-photon/One+, CELTIC 100GET and TIGER2, ITEA TBONES), Spanish (DORADO, RESPLANDOR, GAUDI, DREAMS, EMPIRICO, RT-MPLS, RT-MULTILAYER), and Catalan (PAIS, SILVIA).  He has led the Spanish fundamental research projects DORADO and RESPLANDOR, and the International complementary action GAUDI with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) from Japan. He has published over 50 journal and international conference papers in this field.

His research interests include network control architecture, protocols and traffic engineering algorithms (provisioning, protection and restoration strategies) for highly dynamic optical transport networks.