Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

Idelfonso Tafur Monroy is Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology and director of the Photonic Integration Technology Center BV (PITC). He is principal investigator in the Center for Quantum Materials and Technology Eindhoven (QT/e), the Institute for Photonics Integration (IPI) and the Center For Wireless Technology (CWTe).

He coordinates the 5G PPP BLUESPACE project on technologies for 5G wireless systems and the ITN CELTA project with 15 PhD students working convergence of electronics and photonics technologies for applications such as THz communications, sensing and imaging. More recently, he and his team are members of the Quantum Hub Eindhoven setting up the Eindhoven test-bed for quantum cryptography, as part of the national Dutch program Quantum Delta.

His research interests are the convergence of electronic-photonic integrated circuits and systems-on-chip for Terahertz systems to be used in communications, sensing, agro-food, and security. Such system approach is also explored for 5G and beyond systems, quantum secure communications, and merged sensing and computing.

He is co-author of over 500 journal and conference papers and has graduated 22 PhD students. He is co-founder of the start-up Bifrost Communications on optical fiber access solutions.

Idelfonso Tafur started his academic career in the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute in Ukraine, he received a M.Sc degree from the Bonch-Bruevitch Institute of Communications, St. Petersburg, Russia, holds a Technology Licentiate degree in telecommunications theory from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and a PhD degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology.