Personal details
- Carlos Molina Ordóñez
- From Sevilla, Spain
- Living in Barcelona
- carlosmolina.ord@gmail.com
Education
- (2018-2019) Master's Degree, ESEIAAT-UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Master's Degree in Space and Aeronautical Engineering
- (2008-2017) Bachelor's Degree, University of Seville, Degree in Physics.
- (2007-2008) High school, IES Severo Ochoa, San Juan de Aznalfarache, Science and technology.
- (2002-2006) Secondary school, IES Severo Ochoa, San Juan de Aznalfarache.
Experience
- (2019-present) PhD Candidate, CommSensLab UPC, Barcelona. My research, as part of the CommSensLab is related with ionospheric scintillation monitoring and modelling. Using several sources, as GNSS-R NASA Satellite CYGNSS, it can be studied the intensity and occurrence of ionospheric disturbances as Equatorial Plasma Bubbles (EPBs), to in the end, improve the existing ionospheric models.
- (2019-present) Systems engineer NanoSat Lab UPC, Barcelona. In parallel with my PhD work, I'm involved in the NanoSat Lab team as part of the RITA payload project, the winner of the GRSS Second Grand Student Challenge organized by IEEE-GRSS, that consist in the design and manufacture of a Remote Sensing payload for a 3U cubesat integrated by the NSSTC in UAE. The payload includes an L-Band Microwave Radiometer and a Multispectral camera for Soil moisture, vegetation and NDVI monitoring. I'm the responsible for the Multispectral camera and optics, and involved in the Mission analysis, CONOPS, and power/data budget.
- (2019) Hardware engineer, NanoSat Lab UPC, Barcelona. As part of my Master's Thesis I was working in NanoSat Lab in Barcelona designing the hardware of an On-board computer for Cubesats. In this period I learnt how to design the schematic, layout of the PCB and also soldering the components and electrical testing of them.
- (2017-2018) Home teacher, (Maths, physics...), Seville. ~100 hours
- (2013-2017) Analog design and layout of integrated circuits, Teledyne Anafocus, Seville. I was in charge of design of electronic analog blocks for CMOS image sensors manufactured in the company. I worked for 5 or 6 different proyects working along with teams of 8-10 people including analog and digital designers.
- (2013) Analog design of integrated circuits, Teledyne Anafocus, Seville. 6-month scholarship
- (2012-2013) Assistant rowing coach, Club Nautico Sevilla
- (2009-2014) Home teacher, (Maths, physics...), Seville, ~140 hours
Publications
You can find me at orcid, ResearchGate.
- Molina, C.; Camps, A. First Evidences of Ionospheric Plasma Depletions Observations Using GNSS-R Data from CYGNSS. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 3782. DOI: 10.3390/rs12223782
- Adrián Pérez, Pau Fabregat, Marc Badia, Marco Sobrino, Carlos Molina, Joan Francesc Muñoz, Lara Fernandez, Laura Rayon, Juan José Ramos. RITA: REQUIREMENTS AND PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF AN L-BAND MICROWAVE RADIOMETER, OPTICAL IMAGER, AND RFI DETECTION PAYLOAD FOR A 3U CUBESAT. IGARSS 2020.
- Casanova, Ignasi; Sureda, Miquel; Almirall, Oriol; Boix, Álvaro; Díez, Carlos; Greaves, Jack; Molina, Carlos; Murnaghan, Murrough; Navarro, Ángel; Partal, Nuria; Puljic, Stjepan; Sharique, Syed Abdul Hadi. The Moon: the next international space station. 2020. Iniciativa Digital Politècnica. Oficina de Publicacions Acadèmiques Digitals de la UPC. ISBN: 9788498808261. URI.
Languages
- Spanish: native
- English: Cambridge certificate B2 (score 172)
- Catalan: basic level
Computer skills
- Operative systems: Linux, Windows
- Office: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) and LibreOffice (Writer, Calc)
- Text editors: LaTeX, Atom, Vim
- Programming languages: Python, C, bash, markdown
- Scientific software: Matlab, Mathematica, Geogebra
- Version control: Git
- Electronic hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi
- Electronic design tools: Altium
- Graphics design: Inkscape, GIMP, Blender, OpenSCAD, 3D printing
Here is available my complete CV.