Alejandro Lancho received the B.E., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2013, 2014 and 2019, respectively. During the fall of 2017, he was a visiting researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Since October, 2019, he works at Chalmers University of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher. He has been recently awarded a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellowship in the context of the EU Horizon 2020 program. As part of the research fellowship, he will held a postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

Alejandro Lancho was an FPU fellow (Spanish Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte) during his Ph.D. studies. He was among the six finalists for the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. His research interests are in the areas of information theory and wireless communications.