José de Oliva Rubio obtained his Telecommunications Engineering degree and PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain, in 1993 and 2006, respectively. Since 1997, he has been affiliated with the ETSI Telecomunicación, University of Málaga, initially as an associate professor and later as a full professor.

His research activity focuses on integrated photonics and the design and prototyping of microwave circuits and subsystems. He has collaborated on research projects in the field of silicon photonics with the Institute for Microstructural Science (IMS) of the Canadian National Research Council (C-NRC). He has also worked as a researcher with AT4 Wireless (now partly incorporated into Keysight and Dekra) and the German Institute for Mobile and Satellite Telecommunications (IMST GmbH) in the design, fabrication, and characterization of microwave circuits and systems on Low Temperature Cofired Ceramic (LTCC) substrates.

Recently, he has collaborated with AGPhotonics on the design and integration of optical and electronic access circuits and systems, including control and RF, for silicon photonic chips. He has also worked with them on the design and implementation of encapsulation processes for SOI chips used in the deployment of next-generation Free Space Optical Communications (FSO) systems. The results of his academic work have been published in several leading international journals in the fields of microwaves, optics, and photonics.