Carlos Cilla Email & Phone Number

Madrid, Es

Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

Technically leading the participation of Tecnobit in the NGWS/FCAS program (Future Combat Air System). Work in the Remote Carriers demonstrator pillar and the Item0 team (Operational and conceptual studies for the final System of Systems that includes the Fighter, Remote Carriers and Combat Cloud).

Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

Technical Manager and Sensor Systems Expert at the FCAS (Future Combat Air System) Sensor Pillar Team at Indra, focusing mainly on: ✔ Technical Management and Responsible of the System Engineering Team that develops the Ph1B Airborne RF and EO/IR Sensor Architectures for the Initial Operational Concept in 2040 (>20 people)✔ Introduce Technical Processes, Methods and Tools to be used in the team, based on MBSE (Model Based System Engineering)✔ Responsible of technical coordination with our German and French partners (Ph1A&Ph1B)✔ Contribute to the Preparation of Technical proposal for Phase1B/2.

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

Design and Development of RF and Microwave Hardware for Space and Defence projects such as the new sensors for the Spanish F110 Frigate or proptotypes for the upcoming Spainsat satellite. The tasks included: Technical team leadership, generation of project budgets, workpackage definitions, shedules, interface with project stakeholders and customer, hardware design and test.

Madrid Area, Spain

☛ Senior Expert in Microwave and RF engineering specialized in High Power Amplifier design and development using GaN technology, including custom power MMIC design. ☛ Team technical leader and responsible of an engineering design team of 9 people. The role consisted in: o Identifying different tasks for the different projects, distributing them among the team members and following up on the tasks of all of the team members. o Tutoring and transferring of technical know-how to the engineers in the team with less experience. o Doing the yearly performance evaluation and interview of each member of the team. ☛ Technical senior expert on projects. My main responsibilities were: o Creating together with the project managers the project forecast budgets, project workpackage definitions and project scheduleo Participating in tender applications and preparation of offers for external projects.o Providing technical support to internal and external customers. o Interface with main project stakeholders (Interface with internal and external customers, follow-up manufacturing of prototypes , interface with mechanical, thermal engineers, test bench designers and staff performing environmental testing)Main achievements:☛ The members of the team and me have designed, developed and tested active and passive RF and microwave hardware used within Indra´s Radar and Electronic Warfare equipment. The systems are used for ground, naval, airborne-based and space applications. ☛ Apart from High Power Amplifiers, the microwave hardware that we have designed also comprises Low Noise receivers, RF Front-end modules, Digital tuned oscillators (DTO), High Power Switches, Logarithmic detectors, Mixers, Filters, Antennas, MMICs, etc☛ Technical leader at Indra for the Spainsat X-band de-risking contract carried out for Airbus including:o Power and Low noise amplifier module design, manufacturing and test for space applications.o Support to MMIC and module spec.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

☛ Main tasks: • Radio Frequency system integration and design, development manufacturing, and test of passive and active RF and microwave components, for space-, ground- and airborne-based applications (High Power Switches, ICs, Compact Power Dividers, Couplers, Filters, Antennas, MMICs, High Power Amplifiers,…) • Investigation of power amplifier efficiency, nonlinearities, stability and thermal performance issues, using facilities at Danish National Clean room for Micro- and Nanofabrication, Danchip.• Active participation in many technical review meetings, teleconferences, work package management, and tender applications within several microwave technology projects for customers such as The European Space Agency.• Write detailed technical documentation and publications. • Organize tasks for the technicians that help me with manufacturing of components, assembly of systems and test (9 people in total). • Technical guidance of trainees and students▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬PHOTOS OF SOME OF THE HARDWARE I DEVELOPED:

Copenhagen, Denmark

☛ Project title: “Development of High Power Amplifiers for Space and Ground-based Applications”.☛ Development of design methodologies, nonlinear modeling and simulation, manufacturing, packaging and efficient testing of high power amplifier (HPA) modules. ☛ I developed GaN high power amplifiers with capabilities to replace the currently employed vacuum tubes used inside TERMA radars.❖ Main achievements: • Design, assembly and successful test campaign of a 100 W X-band Hybrid High Power Amplifier using Triquint GaN technology (PAE>50%)• Design and successful measurement campaign of a state-of-the-art 50W C-band MMIC High Power Amplifier (PAE > 50%) for the next generation of Sentinel satellites.• Scientific Journal publications have been submitted. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬PHOTOS OF THE HARDWARE I DEVELOPED:

Esa Estec, Noordwijk, Netherlands

☛ I paused for one year my Industrial PhD with the support from all the project partners, in order to get the opportunity to design an IC using GaN technology at ESA.The access to this state-of-the-art technology was very restricted at that moment. ❖ The main achievements at ESA include: • Design and succesfull measurement campaign of a 50W C-band MMIC High Power Amplifier with worldwide state of the art performance for this type of circuit. The IC is intended for the next generation of Sentinel satellites, and it uses United Monolithic Semiconductor’s GaN GH25 process (PAE > 50%). Running paralell to ESA Contract No. 5531/07/NL/GLC/ "GaN Highly Efficient HPA for X- and Ku-band SAR and Altimeter Applications"• Test campaign of both European and Non-European GaN transistors on-wafer and mounted on CuMo carriers.• High power load pull measurements for transistor model validation and selection of optimum biasing and loading conditions. • Installation and test of a new load-pull test bed and new high power waveform measurement tool in ESTEC Payload Division clean room.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬RECOMMENDATIONS FROM ESA:

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

• Design, Assembly, Integration, Test (AIT) and aircraft installation of the RF Front-End of ESA´s Airborne P-band Ice Sounding Radar: POLARIS, under ESA contract No 19308/05/NL/JA. This radar system is an Airborne demonstrator for the recently approved ESA BIOMASS satellite. • The tasks performed include: ☛ Top-level System Analysis, Architecture Selection & Power Budget Calculations.☛ Selection and Test of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf modules.☛ Design, Fabrication and Measurements of Purpose-build Modules with High Power Handling Capabilities not Commercially Available.☛ Integration and test of the different units (Digital Signal Generator, Control Unit, Analog and Digital Front-Ends, Power Supply Units,..)☛ Full System Mechanical Assembly and aircraft installation.☛ Performance assessment, including flight measurement campaigns over Greenland´s ice cap.Heavily Involved also in the following projects: • ESA Contract No. 21594/08/NL/JA. “P-Band HPA Technology Assessment”. Comparison of LDMOS, GaN and GaAs HPA technology at P-band, including ECSS compliance, radiation testing and multipaction free design and test of space components.• ESA Contract No. 20456/07/NL/IA “Linearity Assessment of GaN Technology”• ESA Contract No 21155/07/NL/ST. “Terahertz Camera for Remote Detection of Material Defects and Biological and Chemical Substances.” ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DANISH NATIONAL SPACE CENTER:

Magdeburg, Germany

• Measurement and Optimization of Infrared Light Emitters with CMOS Technology Sensors to be used as a receiver in commercial applications.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Industrial Phd, Rf Design And Measurements

Design and testing of High Power Amplifiers for Space and Ground-based Systems

Master Of Science, Telecommunications And Electronics

Activities and Societies: Collaboration with “IEEE Student Branch of the University of Zaragoza” organizing Conferences and Workshops..