Professor Antonio Nuñez, Medal of the ULPGC

The Governing Council of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has awarded the ULPGC medal to Professor Emeritus and founder of the University Institute of Applied Microelectronics (IUMA), Professor Antonio Nuñez. The IUMA community congratulates him and thanks him for all the work and effort he has done, and continues to do, for the development of microelectronics, both locally, nationally and internationally, during his long teaching and research career.
Antonio Núñez also started the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de Las Palmas, of which he was the first Director, and created the Centro de Microelectrónica Aplicada, the embryo of the current IUMA, the first Research Institute of the ULPGC, of which he was the Director.
His teaching and research career has led him to spend time at European and US universities, to give lectures and participate in conferences all over the world. He has received many awards and distinctions in recognition of his work in the field of telecommunications and the impetus he has given to the training of researchers and teachers in the field of chip design and microelectronics.
Antonio has contributed his great capacity for work and self-improvement, for analysing problems and coming up with imaginative solutions, and for making a firm commitment to making viable a field of R&D&I in microelectronics for the Canary Islands. His broad culture and transversal skills have decisively favoured the creation of the multidisciplinary working environment that the IUMA is today.