Invited Speakers

Jose L Marzo is Full Professor at the Computer Architecture and Technology Department at the University of Girona, Spain. He was with Telefonica (main Spanish Telecom Operator) at the engineering and development departments before joining academia in 1991. His research interests are in the fields of communication networks, complex networks control and management, in particular network resilience in disaster scenarios. He leads the research Lab in Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems at the University of Girona. He coordinated the participation of the research group in some national Spanish and European research projects. Since 2012 Jose L Marzo is also adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University (KSU). There he is member of the Network Science and Engineering Group. The main activity in KSU deals with developing large failure models based on epidemics. Jose L Marzo has participated to the technical program committees and chairing sessions of several conferences, including SPECTS, IEEE Globecom, ICC and Infocom. He served as associated editor of the International Journal of Communications Systems. He has co-authored several papers published in international journals and presented in leading international conferences.

Robert Kooij is part-time full professor at the Network Architectures and Services group (NAS) since 2010. His research interests include dynamical systems, network science and in particular the robustness of complex networks. He uses mathematical methods to quantify the robustness of complex networks and applies these methods to critical infrastructures, such as communication networks, electricity grids and transportation networks.

His publications can be found here.

Robert Kooij has a background in mathematics: he received both his MSc and PhD degree cum laude at Delft University of Technology, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. From 1997 until 2003 he was employed at the research lab of KPN, the largest telecom operator in the Netherlands. From 2003 until 2018 he was employed at the ICT Unit of TNO, the Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research. In 2011 he became principal scientist, conducting and managing research on Critical ICT Infrastructures. Since 2005 Robert is part-time affiliated with the Delft University of Technology, at the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. Since 2010 he is a part-time full professor with the chair “Robustness of Complex Networks”. From 2018 until 2020 professor Kooij lived in Singapore, where he got a position as principal research scientist at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, working on a project related to cyber resilience for critical infrastructures.. Currently he is also employed one day per week at TNO as senior scientist.

Dr. Jordi Ripoll is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Girona (UdG), where he is a member of the research group on Mathematical biology. He received his Ph.D. degree in mathematical sciences from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 2005. His main interest is in population dynamics applied to ecology and epidemiology. He has worked on structured population dynamics, models for biological evolution, and epidemic models with the formalism of the complex networks. He made a postdoctoral research stay at the University of Trento (Italy) during 2006 and 2007, and he is co-author of several papers in international journals and conferences dealing with a wide range of topics: from the gut microbiota of animals, or failures in telecommunication networks, to metapopulations with diffusion of individuals among patches. Recently, he has been visiting professor in Mathematical Biology at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA). He has also acted as referee for several scientific journals and has been financed by successive research projects in public calls. On the other hand, he has taught a varied mathematical teaching since 1996 in three different universities in Spain: UdG, UNED and UOC.

Fenghua Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Network, Architectures and Services group under the supervision of Prof. Van Mieghem and Robert Kooij at Delft University of Technology since September 2019. Her main research interests are network robustness and recoverability. Now she is doing the research about the robustness of network controllability during node removal and node addition.

David Martínez is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Girona and a Research Technician at ICRA (Catalan Institute for Water Research). He holds a Master's degree in Cybersecurity and Privacy from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and is also starting a Ph.D. at the University of Girona, where he furthers his research on the detection and mitigation of attacks in telecommunication or environment-modeled networks using artificial intelligence techniques.

Martí Madrenys is a Computer Science student at Universitat de Girona who collaborates with Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems. He is currently working on blockchain technologies, artificial intelligence, network robustness and software-defined networks.

Massimo Achterberg is a PhD student in the Network, Architectures and Services group under the supervision of Prof. Van Mieghem at Delft, University of Technology since November 2019. He is working on various projects related to the spread of infectious processes on networks. His primary interest concerns modelling epidemic outbreaks, ranging from the basic SIS process on static and adaptive networks to modelling the spread of COVID-19.

graduated in Environmental Sciences from the University of Girona in 2000. I obtained my PhD degree in the Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Engineering from the University of Girona in 2006 on the topic of modeling and control of biological reactors for wastewater treatment. Afterwards I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship and moved to Canada to work on benchmarking of wastewater treatment (2007-2010). In 2010, I joined ICRA via Juan de la Cierva research contract to continue and expand my research. In 2014 I was awarded a Ramon y Cajal fellowship, and started my independent research line at ICRA on integrated management of urban wastewater infrastructure, with a focus on wastewater-based epidemiology and sustainability CV date 16/03/2022 2 assessment. Currently, I am leading the research line at ICRA on Integrated Management of Urban Water Systems and Sustainability Assessment. It involves the development of new monitoring tools, new models for water quality and sustainability assessment. Knowledge transfer is achieved through demonstration projects, training highly qualified personnel and dissemination of the results. I became lecturer in 2011 after receiving the certification from AQU (Agency for the Quality of the University system of Catalonia). My core research interests are in wastewater-based epidemiology, sustainability assessment of urban water systems and the intersection of environmental science and decision-making. I have strong background in monitoring and modelling urban wastewater systems (sewer systems, wastewater treatment plants) and their receiving water bodies. I have been actively involved in >4.4M€ funding acquisition (international/national competitive and from contracts) during the period comprised between 2010 and 2020, and I have been responsible for managing >1.9M€ funding (as PI or CoPI of projects). I have been the PI from 2 European research projects, 2 Spanish research projects and 10 contracts with international companies. I am currently involved in 3 H2020 projects; SCOREwater which deals with wastewaterbased epidemiology, DWC which deals with the digitalization of the water sector and EdiCitNet about the integration of nature-based solutions in the urban water cycle. I am also leading a Spanish project (INVEST) on the development of a Spanish-scale model to estimate the influence of wastewater treatment plant discharges on the receiving water bodies. I am as well the PI of the Catalan network of sars-cov-2 surveillance from wastewater funded by the Government of Catalonia as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. My research activities have resulted in 70 peer-reviewed ISI publications (12 of them first-authored and 20 senior-authored) and 6 book chapters; 45 of the papers in Q1, with an h-index of 32 and 3553 citations (web of science). I have supervised 7 PhD thesis, 8 postdoctoral researchers, 4MSc and 9 BSc. I am as well, Principal inventor of a patent (P4103/2012) and enterpreneur, co-creator of ITICRAlab (the IT lab at ICRA). Finally, I am the Chair of the IWA (International Water Association) Working Group for Life Cycle Assessment of Water and Wastewater Treatment (LCA-Water WG) and I am editor of the journal Water Practice & Technology (IWA publishing) since 2014

Miquel Farreras is a PhD student at Universitat de Girona, in the Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems group. Currently he is working in graph theory, 5G network applications and technologies and machine learning applied to networks. Previously, he worked as an associate professor teaching Operative Systems and on water networks as a Research Technician at ICRA. In addition, he worked as an IT Infraestructure Engineer, collaborating in virtualization, cloud and network security management.