Elisa Rojas

Elisa Rojas is an Associate Professor at the University of Alcalá (UAH), while she earned her PhD in Information and Communication Technologies in 2013. Her professional background includes a postdoctoral tenure at IMDEA Networks, followed by her role as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Telcaria Ideas S.L., an SME specializing in the research and development of virtualized network solutions. Additionally, she has served as a lecturer for the Master’s program on NFV and SDN for 5G Networks at Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M). Her primary research interests encompass Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), high-performance Ethernet routing, Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLNs/IoT), and data center architectures. Dr. Rojas has also been a visiting researcher at several prestigious institutions, including the University of Cambridge (UK), NEC Labs (Germany), Fujitsu Labs (Japan), FBK CREATE-NET (Italy), and Osaka University (Japan). Active in the scientific community, she has chaired numerous international conferences and reviewed over 100 articles for JCR-indexed journals. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Elsevier Computer Networks and Springer Telecommunication Systems.