Área: Ingeniería y Arquitectura

Email: jplazdel@uax.es

Juan Carlos Plaza del Pino is a Senior Defense Scientist (a Spanish civil servant scale) and head of the Integration Laboratory of the Unmanned Aerial Platforms Area at INTA. He obtained the degree of Aeronautical Technical Engineer in 2005 by the UPM and the degree of Physical Sciences in 2011 by the UNED, and is currently a PhD student in Physical Sciences by the UNED. He worked as a test engineer in INTA's low-speed wind tunnels for 7 years (2005-2012) and since 2012 he has been working on the design, manufacturing, integration, systems and flight testing of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) such as DIANA, SIVA and Milano. His PhD topic and current interests are focused on in-flight icing, especially in the case of UAS.