He is a full professor and head of the Optical Communications Group of Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain). He has published more than 300 works in international refereed journals and conferences related with fiber-optic sensors, fiber-optic networks, fiber lasers and integrated optics. He has led 31 projects as principle investigator. Member of 28 international and 15 national scientific conferences technical committees such as Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, OFS (2018), European Workshop on fibre optic sensors (2016) and Asia-Pacific optical sensors conference (2016). He was the technical co-chair of OFS23. He is a Senior member of IEEE and member of the OSA. More about on: http://www.unavarra.es/optical-communications-group