Summary
Fran Romero is an Associate Professor and researcher with 15 years of experience bridging flexible electronics, IoT embedded systems, and hands-on product development. He earned his PhD in Flexible Electronics from the University of Granada with a research stay at TUM, and has repeatedly collaborated with industry partners like Infineon and eesy-innovation to translate lab prototypes into real embedded solutions. As a former postdoc leading excellence projects and now a co-founder and tech advisor at a hardware-focused startup, he combines academic rigor with startup execution. His background spans microcontroller firmware, low-power wireless systems, wearable sensor design and PCB-level development—skills he applied from student projects to commercial R&D roles. Notably, he graduated top of his class and has sustained parallel academic and industry careers since his early research days, reflecting a rare blend of teaching, grant-winning research, and product-minded engineering.
15 years of coding experience