Antonio Tazón was born in Santander, Spain, in 1951. He received the University Degree of Physical Sciences, specialty in Electronics, in 1978 at the University of Cantabria. Doctorate in Physical Sciences since 1987, also by the University of Cantabria, with the highest qualification.
Since 1980 he has worked in the former Department of Electronics, now the Communications Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria. Associate Professor of University since 1991 and, since May 2002, Professor at the University of the Communications Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria. During the years 1985 and 1986 he worked in the IRCOM Department of the University of Limoges, France, in non-linear modeling and load-pull techniques.
He has participated, directed and coordinated projects, both European and Spanish in non-linear modeling (Esprit 6050 MANPOWER, Application of Advanced Linearization Techniques at the Electronic Device Level to High Efficiency RF / Microwave Subsystems, coordinated project CICYT), communication systems and design of circuits in microwaves and millimeter waves (Spanish Project PlanSAT, European Project CABSINET, Development of WLAN Networks for Multimedia Communications, FEDER Project, etc.) and in active antennas with electronic control such as Antennas and Reflectors with Beam Control (ARCO Scientific Research and Technological Development Project (P4 Modality), Terahertz Technology for information gathering applications using electromagnetic sensors (TERASENSE) -CONSOLIDER CSD2008-00068, Project with the ESOC as X Band Cryocooled Feed, among others.
He has focused on non-linear analysis and optimization in devices active and microwave and millimeter circuits in hybrid and monolithic technologies, has also worked in the area of ??large signal modeling and intermodulation of AsGa and Si-Ge devices and their applications in design-oriented non-linear CAD. He is currently focusing on intermodulation and linearity issues of microwave devices, arrays and antenna reflectarrays with electronic beam control and antennas and antenna heads.
On these research topics, he has published national and international publications, including more than 50 publications in prestigious international journals and books of which he is the editor of one of them, more than 110 publications in international congresses, and innumerable national congresses and more. of 80 participations research projects with public and private subsidies where he has been director or coordinator in several of them.
He is currently the coordinator of the Group of the University of Cantabria of the Project or with the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) "X Band Cryocooled Feed", granted in July 2015 and in which the companies Callisto (France), SERTC (Madrid) participate ). for satellite / RADAR antenna feed and Radio-astronomy subsystems.
His main areas of activities and contributions have been: microwave circuits and systems, including monolithic microwave integrated circuits up to 50 GHz. His current research interests are low noise millimetre-wave amplifiers and receivers for radio-astronomy applications.
