Daniel Calabuig was born in Valencia in 1981. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Valencia, Spain, in 2005 and 2010 respectively.

In 2005 he joined the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) from the UPV. In 2006 he obtained a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education for helping young researchers obtain their Ph.D. During the following years he participated in some European projects and activities like NEWCOM, COST2100 and ICARUS. Until finishing his Ph.D., Daniel Calabuig worked on radio resource management in heterogeneous wireless systems and Hopfield neural networks optimization.

In 2009 he visited the Centre for Wireless Network Design (CWiND) at the University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK, for a period of four months (CWiND is currently at the University of Sheffield).

In 2010 he obtained a Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission for researching in the field of cooperative multipoint transmissions. Thanks to this fellowship, Daniel Calabuig visited the department of Systems and Computer Engineering (SCE) at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, from 2010 to 2012. During 2012, he also visited the TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey, for one month.

He is currently involved in the European project Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society (METIS), which main objective is lay the foundation of 5G, the next generation mobile and wireless communications system.