José-Ángel Ávila-Rodríguez

José-Ángel Ávila-Rodríguez received his Ph.D. in signal design and as of March 2010 is GNSS signal and receiver engineer of the Galileo Evolution Team at ESA/ESTEC.

Between 2003 and 2010 he was research associate at the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich.

Ávila-Rodríguez is one of the CBOC inventors and has actively participated in the developing innovations of the CBOC multiplexing. He is involved in the Galileo program, in which he supports the European Space Agency, the European Commission, and the Galileo Joint Undertaking, through the Galileo Signal Task Force.

He studied at the Technical Universities of Madrid, Spain, and Vienna, Austria, and has an M.S. in electrical engineering. His major areas of interest include the Galileo signal structure, GNSS receiver design and performance, and Galileo codes.

He was recipient of the 2008 Parkinson Award and the 2009 ION Early Achievement Award, both from the U.S. Institute of Navigation. 

Ávila-Rodríguez was profiled in the Inside GNSS feature, Human Engineering, March-April 2010.