Marcelo A. Soto received his M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering (major in Telecommunications) from Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile, in 2005; and his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technologies from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2011. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Group for Fibre Optics at EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he has been working on high-performance Brillouin and Rayleigh distributed fibre sensing, nonlinear fibre optics, optical signal processing, and optical Nyquist pulse generation. Dr. Soto is author or co-author of about 140 scientific publications in international refereed journals and conferences, 1 book chapter and 8 patents. He is member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and member of the Review Board of major international journals in optical fibre sensing and photonics.