Pablo Soto was born in 1975 in Cartagena, Spain. He received the M.S. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Polit\'ecnica de Valencia in 1999, where he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree. In 2000 he joined the Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where he is Lecturer since 2002. In 2000 he was a fellow with the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC-ESA), Noordwijk, the Netherlands. His research interests comprise numerical methods for the analysis and automated design of passive waveguide components. Mr. Soto received the 2000 COIT/AEIT national award to the best Master Thesis in basic information and communication technologies.