Enrique Villa was born in Santander (Spain) and received the Telecommunications Enginnering degree and the Master degree on Mobile Network Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Cantabria in 2005 and 2008 respectively. In 2014, he received the PhD degree (Cum Laude) from the University of Cantabria with the thesis entiteld “Wideband Microwave Circuits for Radioastronomy Applications”. He was awarded with the extraordinary Ph.D. Prize in the Architecture and Engineering Area in 2016.
From 2006 to 2017 he was part of RF and Microwaves group, where he participated in several research projects such as Planck, QUIJOTE o EPI, focused on the design of very high sensitivity and low noise microwave receivers to characterize the polarization of electromagnetic waves and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
In 2018, he joined the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, leading the development of microwave receivers for biomedical applications to measure the natural electromagnetic radiation of biological tissues
He joined the Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) in 2022, where his main tasks are related to the development of state-of-the-art superconducting detectors for space missions and ground-based telescopes, designing microwave devices for the read-out system of kinetic inductance detectors.
In 2024 he joined the RF and Microwaves group, focusing on the following research topics:
- Very low-noise cryogenic amplifiers
- Power amplifiers and high-efficiency transmitters
- Microwave front-ends in waveguide technology
- Radio astronomy receivers
Research Activity: Publicaciones, Proyecto, Tesis dirigidas, Patentes y Tecnologías
Teaching Activity: Subjects Taught
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-1028-6957
ResearcherID: H-9796-2015
Scopus Author ID: 26325126700
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