Máriam Taroncher (S’03) was born in Lliria, Valencia, Spain, on October 8, 1979. She received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 2003, and is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at UPV.
From 2002 to 2004, she was a Fellow Researcher with the UPV. Since 2004, she has been a Technical Researcher in charge of the experimental laboratory for high power effects in waveguide devices at the Research Institute iTEAM, UPV. In 2006 she was awarded a Trainee position at the European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency (ESTEC-ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands, where she worked in the Payload Systems Division Laboratory in the area of Multipactor, Corona Discharge and Passive Intermodulation (PIM) effects. Her current research interests include numerical methods for the analysis of waveguide structures and the acceleration of the electromagnetic analysis methods.