Telecom Engineer BsC and PhD degrees from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain, in 2000 and 2004, respectively.

The final work for my BsC was focused on new techniques to avoid carrier suppression in radio-on-fiber systems. My PhD Thesis was focused on passive optical devices based on two-dimensional photonic crystals. After finishing my PhD, I conducted several studies on negative refraction in photonic crystals and launched a research line focused on metamaterial science and technology at the Nanophotonics Technology Center (NTC) at UPV. During that period (2006-2008) I was also working in the FP6 project PHOLOGIC - coordinated by Prof. Javier Marti - on all-optical nanophotonic logic gates for ultrafast all-optical processing. Since 2008, I am an Associate Professor at the same university and a group leader in the Nanophotonics Technology Center (www.ntc.upv.es). During my career, I have been involved in several national and European research projects. Recently, I coordinated the FET-Open project TAILPHOX (Ref. 233883, www.tailphox.org), started on May 2009 with a 2.1 M¿ funding from EC. I have co-authored over 80 papers in international journals (h-index=17) and I hold 6 patents. I am also a usual referee for IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Physical Review Letters, Optics Letters and Optics Express. My research interests include photonic crystals, silicon nanophotonics, optomechanics and metamaterials.

Nanophotonics