Lorena Lozano Plata

Lorena Lozano Plata is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidad de Alcalá. Her research focuses on computational electromagnetics, radar cross-section (RCS) analysis, antenna design, and high-performance numerical methods. She holds a PhD from Universidad de Alcalá (2006) with a thesis on accelerating ray-tracing techniques for RCS reduction using physical optics. She is part of the GEC (Computational Electromagnetic Group) and has developed software tools like NewFasant and FASANT for electromagnetic analysis.

Her work emphasizes efficient algorithms for solving large-scale electromagnetic problems, including multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA), characteristic basis function method (CBFM), and hybrid techniques combining high-frequency asymptotic methods with rigorous solvers. Applications include antenna placement optimization, urban V2X communication channels, wind turbine interference characterization, and aerospace satellite communication modeling. She has contributed to GPU-accelerated parallelization strategies and radar system simulations in traffic scenarios.

Lozano Plata's research also involves radio propagation analysis in complex environments, radar Doppler spectrum analysis, and pre-processing/meshing optimization for electromagnetic software. Her work bridges theoretical developments with practical tools used in industry and academia for electromagnetic design and simulation challenges.