M.S. degree in Communications Engineering from the ETSI Telecommunications at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya in 1990, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1995.

Since October 1990, he is with the Communications Department of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPVLC). Prof Cardona is in head of the Mobile Communications Group at the UPVLC, with 30 researchers including assistant professors & research fellows.

Additionally he is the Director of the Mobile Communications Master Degree (since 2006) and Vice-Director of the Research Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) since 2004. Prof Cardona has led and participated to National research projects and to European projects, Networks of Excellence and other research forums, always in Mobile Communications aspects. At European scale, he has been Vice-Chairman of COST273 Action, Chair of the WG3 of COST2100 in the area of Radio Access Networks, and he is currently the Chairman of the EU Action COST IC1004 since May 2011.

Prof Cardona is also member of the Steering Board of METIS (7FP), also on Future Mobile Communications Technologies. From his research work, Prof Cardona has authored 8 patents, several books and above 160 research papers.

His current areas of interest include mobile channel characterisation; planning and optimisation tools for cellular systems, RRM techniques applied to personal communications and broadcast cellular hybrid networks.

Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems