Prof. Dr. Carlos E. Palau is a Telecommunication Engineer. He holds a PhD on Telecommunication Engineering, in the area of real-time systems and communications. He has been working in the area of real-time systems, wireless sensor networks, security and IoT for the last 25 years. His competence is devoted to interoperability, security and the use of IoT technologies in different application domains. From 1998 till 2010 was Associated Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Valencia and during this period was CIO of the organisation (2004-07). 
Since 2010 he holds a Full Professorship at Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. He has been actively participating in real time National and European projects related with the application of his area of research technologies in different areas: defence, industry, health and transport and logistics. He has published more than 150 papers. Since January 2016 he is Project Coordinator of H2020 INTER-IoT (Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms) and participating in the H2020 Large Scale Pilot on IoT applied the AHA (ACTIVAGE).