Luis Rodríguez Cobo received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technologies (TICRM) from the University of Cantabria (Spain), in 2013. He has been awarded with the extraordinary PhD. award for his works on optical sensors. After working as postdoctoral researcher at the Photonics Engineering Group (GIF) within the Department of Electronic Technology, Industrial Automation and System Engineering at the University of Cantabria, carrying out R&D and project managing task, in 2017 he joined the CIBER-BBN program of Institute of Health Carlos III as postdoctoral researcher to enhance its research in medical applications. His research is mainly focused on optical sensors, with particular attention to those based on optical fibers to be employed in many different scenarios. He has been enrolled in research projects funded by the European Union, Spanish and Local Government, including several research contracts with companies. Besides he is part of two running spin-off companies and he has co-authored more than 25 ISI journal papers, more than 50 papers at peer-reviewed conferences and several patent applications.