Raul Muñoz is Research Director and Head of Packet Optical Networks and Services at Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalonia (CTTC) in Barcelona, Spain. He has promoted and/or participated in above 50 R&D projects funded by the European Commission’s and Spanish national Framework Programmes on optical networks and 5G/6G. He was elected academic member of the Board of the 5G Infrastructure Association, the Wireless World Research Forum, and the Networld2020 European Technology Platform from 2015 to 2017. He has also served as editor of the optical networks chapter in the NetworldEurope’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) in 2016 and 2022.