José Rodríguez-Piñeiro received the B.Sc. on Telecommunications (Hons.) and the M.Sc. Degree in Signal Processing Applications for Communications (Hons.) from the University of Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain), in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Between June 2008 and July 2011, he was a researcher at the Department of Signal and Communications, University of Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain). In 2011 he joined the Group of Electronics Technology and Communications of the University of A Coruña (Spain) as a researcher, obtaining his Ph.D. degree (Hons.) with the distinction "Doctor with European Mention" in 2016. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he continued working as a Postdoctoral researcher at the same group until July 2017. On August 2017 he joined the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University (P.R. China), as a Postdoctoral researcher, becoming an Assistant Professor in 2020. He performed several research stays at the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna, Austria) and the National University of Asunción (Paraguay).

From November 2012 he collaborates with the Department of Power and Control Systems, National University of Asunción (Paraguay) in both teaching and research, and he is an external researcher of the Group of Electronics Technology and Communications of the University of A Coruña (Spain) since 2018. Since 2023, he is an elected member of the Propagation Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS).

He is the coauthor of more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, as well as three patents. He is also the leader or a member of the research team in more than 40 international, national and regional research projects funded by public organizations and private companies.

He was awarded with two national- and regional-level predoctoral grants, two national-level postdoctoral fellowships and three national-level research stay grants, as well as with a postdoctoral award and a teaching quality award. His research interests include experimental evaluation of digital mobile communications, especially for high mobility environments, including terrestrial and aerial vehicular scenarios.