Eva Rajo


Eva Rajo Iglesias is a Spanish electrical engineer whose research involves the use of metamaterials, metasurfaces, and periodic surface structures, as waveguides and antennas for microwave and millimeter-wave radio signals. She is a professor in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications of Charles III University of Madrid.

Education and career

Rajo is originally from Monforte de Lemos, where she was born in 1972. She became a student of telecommunication engineering at the University of Vigo, where she received a master's degree in 1996. Continuing her education at Charles III University of Madrid, she completed her Ph.D. in 2002.
She worked as a teaching assistant at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena in 2001, and a visiting lecturer at Charles III University beginning in 2002. In 2004 she obtained a regular-rank associate professorship there, and in 2018 she was promoted to full professor. She also held an affiliation with Chalmers University in Sweden as a guest researcher and affiliated professor from 2004 to 2016.

Recognition

Rajo was named to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions to artificial surfaces and their impact on gap waveguide technology for millimeter waves".