Sonia Solera Cotanilla awarded with the prize to the best Ph.D. thesis work in the fields of defense and security
Sonia Solera Cotanilla, Assistant Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid was awarded the ISDEFE prize for the best doctoral thesis in the fields of defense and security, with the aim of improving security in sensitive environments.
The XLIV call for Awards for Excellence in Telecommunication Engineering has concluded with 5 awards for the best Doctoral Thesis. Among which is the work developed by our colleague Sonia, entitled “Analysis and improvement of security and privacy of connected devices in the digital home”.
These awards, in addition to recognizing the work of the winners, emphasize the importance of telecommunications and encourage STEM vocations, as well as innovation and technological development.
COIT and AEIT held the awards ceremony on June 14th in the Sabadell auditorium, where they brought together experts in the field and other collaborators of the awards. The event had the participation and assistance of Teleco Renta, Ericsson, Hisdesat, Hispasat, Isdefe, In-Nova, Huawei, and the Academy of Engineering and Reintel. We thank all of them for making these awards possible.
The Telematics Systems Engineering Department, in which our colleague Sonia’s work was carried out, also received a diploma as a result of the award. In this case, Manuel Álvarez-Campana, tutor of the work carried out by Sonia, was in charge of collecting said diploma.
There were 4 award winners from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid:
- ISDEFE Award for the best Doctoral Thesis in Security and Defense: Sonia Solera Cotanilla, for her thesis “Analysis and improvement of the security and privacy of connected devices in the digital home” (Polytechnic University of Madrid).
- HISDESAT Award for the best Doctoral Thesis in Space Applications: SATCOM, Earth Observation: Víctor Sánchez Martínez, for his thesis “Contribution to the Design, Analysis and Measurement of Steerable High Gain Antenna Systems for Deep Space in Thermally Extreme Environments”.
- HISDESAT Award for the best Master’s Thesis in Government Satellite Services: Samuel Martínez Zamacola, for his work “Definition of a methodology for an efficient characterization of an on-board beam-hopping payload design in 5G/6G NTN scenarios” (Polytechnic University of Madrid).
- Huawei Award for Best Academic Career in Telecommunications Engineering: Álvaro Martín Cortinas
