Fidel Liberal
Prof. Fidel Liberal is a well-recognized expert in Mission Critical communications.
He works as professor and principal investigator of the NQAS research group in the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) where he leads different mission critical communications and beyond 5G related R&D projects. Among others, he is the coordinator of the Mission Critical Open Platform (MCOP) www.mcopenplatform.org and leads the MCS TaaSting www.mcstaasting.com project, aimed at providing flexible testing as a service mechanisms for MCS certification.
As a result of his intense dissemination and advocacy activity in Mission Critical communications, he is involved with most relevant stakeholders in the sector (TCCA, NIST/PSCR, EENA, PSCE) and standardisation and certification bodies such as ITU-T, 3GPP, ETSI and GCF. Fidel has served as technical expert in NG112 and all MCX/FRMCS Plugtests, interoperability events organized by ETSI. He has also co-founded two security and mission critical communications related Spin-Offs.