Magdalena Salazar, winner of the Pioneras

After the deliberations and the consequent emission of votes, the jury of the COIT (Official College of Telecommunication Engineers) has decided to recognize the academic merits and researchers of Magdalena Salazar Palma with the Pioneras_it Prize.

This is the Third edition of the prize promoted by the IT WOMEN'S GROUP, whose objective is to make visible the contributions and achievements that have been carried out in society thanks to the presence of female talent in the technological field and, in particular, in that of telecommunications.

Magdalena Salazar's choice has been unanimous, both in the vote of the collegiate and that of the jury, which is composed of Carmen Alsina (CEOE), Dora Bandín (SECOT), Antonio Bengoa (Telefónica España); Anna Bufi (Cellnex Spain); Víctor Calvo-Sotelo (Digital), Yolanda Carrasco (Nokia Spain), Blanca Ceña (Vantage Towers Spain), Nuria Chinchilla (IESE), Antonio Colino (Royal Academy of Engineering), Francisco Hortigüela (Ametic), Ana María Molina (Hispasat) and Usamentiaga Luz (Orange Spain).

Magdalena Salazar Palma It becomes, in this way, the winner of the third edition of the Pioneras_it Prize, following the winners in the previous years. He Pioneer 2020 Prize He fell to María Jesús Prieto Lafargue, first woman to receive it, whose professional development has been marked by Lead technological transformation processes, Legislative and Business in the Information and Communications Technology sector.

In the 2021 edition, Immaculate Sánchez Ramos won the award by demonstrating a great Adaptation capacity Towards the new technical and professional approaches in a society so marked by technology. In addition, its Technical, social and informative trajectory He had a great weight in the jury's decision.

An incontestable trajectory

Magdalena Salazar Palma She is a doctor Telecommunication engineer by the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where she was a professor of the Department of Signals, Systems and Radiocommunications of the Ethsi Telecommunication. She has been a professor, director of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications of the Carlos III University of Madrid and co -director of the Radio Frequency Research Group, Electromagnetism, Microwave and Antennas of said Department.

The award -winning is the author or co -author of a total of 752 publications, including 9 scientific books, 30 contributions for books, 14 teaching books, 121 articles in scientific journals and 405 contributions for international congresses. It has a 36 indexwith More than 6,320 appointments from other authors, according to Google Scholar. He has participated as the principal or investigator in a total of 97 projects (47) and contracts (50) of research financed by public institutions and both Spanish and European and the United States. He has taught numerous presentations invited in congresses, seminars, and courses.

Also, Magdalena Salazar Palma has received Two individual research awards, in addition to being Doctor of honor For the University of Aalto, in Finland. Another of its most notable milestones is having served since 1989 as a volunteer in a Hundred positions of the IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). All this trajectory converts it, as Coit emphasizes, a “professional reference of telecommunication engineering and can Promote technological vocations in women ”.