Mohamed EL JAAFARI

Is a radio access network specialist engineer with 22+ years of experience in cellular communications including 5G NR, eUTRAN, GERAN, and Cellular IoT. He received the Engineer degree in telecommunications from EMI in 1999. He is an expert in radio access network design, RF Planning, Radio Network Optimization, and Radio Access Network System dimensioning with large multi-vendor experience. He currently conducts extensive research work on 5G NR NTN and IoT NTN. He joined the R&D department of the Telecommunication Business Line of Thales Alenia Space in 2020. He is the lead representative of Thales in 3GPP RAN1 working group where he is a feature lead for the 3GPP work item on satellite integration in 5G. Currently, he is defining and developing solutions for 5G NR and B5G to support non-terrestrial networks.