Joao Batista Rosolem was born in Fartura, SP, Brazil, in 1963. He received the B.S., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electric engineering from the University of Sao Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil, in 1986, 1990, and 2005, respectively. Since 1990, he is a researcher of CPqD Telecommunication Research and Development Center, Campinas, Brazil. He has been involved in the design of optical sensing system and research in optical sensors for utilities application, such as, FBG, DTS and PoF and optical amplifiers. He has also been engaged in the development of access wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems. Dr. Rosolem is member of SPIE and OSA and is author of over 190 journal and conference papers. He is the holder of 3 USA patents and 3 BRA patents and more than 30 additional patents are pending in the Brazil.