Marcos A. R. Franco received his degree in physics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, in 1999. He is a Researcher in the Institute of Advanced Studies (IEAv), São José dos Campos, Brazil. He is the leader of the Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory in IEAv. He has published about 110 papers, mainly in international journals and conference proccedings, and his present research interests include the computational modeling of electromegnetic devices, specialty optical fibers, fiber optic sensors, microwave and terahertz devices