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The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) research assistant and current director of its Photonics Research Labs-iTEAM, José Capmany Francoy, was awarded last night as the best innovative researcher at the 11th Innovation Awards of the Foro de Empresas Innovadoras (FEI) held at the Caixaforum auditorium in Madrid.

An international reference in the field of photonics, Capmany received the award, in the words of the jury, "for his long scientific and research career in the field of optical communications, being a world pioneer in the disciplines of microwave photonics and programmable integrated photonics".

Not in vain, they add, "the research groups he leads are considered pioneers and world leaders, being himself the author of reference publications in these specialties, such as the most cited article on Microwave Photonics and 2 of the 10 most cited articles in the field of Programmable Integrated Photonics".

Capmany, who has received 2 Advanced Grants - the most prestigious grants - and 2 Proof of Concept from the European Research Council (ERC) in the last 6 years, has published more than 600 publications in journals and conferences, most of them with high impact, which currently places him with an h-index of 47 in WoS, 54 in Scopus or 60 in Google-Scholar.

Member of technical committees of more than 50 international conferences and current editor-in-chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, the journal with the highest impact index of those published by the IEEE Photonics Society, Capmany has received numerous awards and mentions, among them the 2012 King Jaime I Award for New Technologies for his contribution to the field of Microwave Photonics, the Leonardo Torres Quevedo National Research Award in the area of Engineering in 2020, the Engineering Achievement Award of the IEEE Photonics Society in 2021 and the Physics Innovation and Technology Award of the RSEF-Fundación BBVA in 2022.

Co-founder of 2 spin-off companies, VLC Photonics (a specific-purpose photonic circuit company acquired by Hitachi High Technologies) and iPronics Programmable Photonics (a programmable optical chip company selected by the journal Nature as part of the 2020 Spinoff Award call), the UPV Research Assistant has also registered 18 patents, most of which have been transferred and included in specific products on the market.

More than 30 years of teaching and research at the UPV

A Telecommunications Engineer and Doctor in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), with a degree in Physical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Quantum Physics from the University of Vigo, José Capmany has been teaching and researching at the UPV for more than three decades.

In 1991, he joined the UPV Communications Department, where he started his activity on optical communications and photonics by founding the Optical Communications Group. Associate Lecturer from 1992 to 1996, and Full Professor in Optical Communications, Systems and Networks since 1996, Capmany was also Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Telecommunications Engineering from 1991 to 1996, Deputy Director of the Communications Department and Director of the UPV's ITEAM Research Institute for almost two decades.

The Galician Innovation Agency and Next Limit, the other award winners

Along with Capmany (innovative Research Assistant), the Galician Innovation Agency (innovation support organisation) and Next Limit SL (creative company/entrepreneur) also received awards last night, in an event inaugurated by the Director General for Research and Technological Innovation of the Community of Madrid, Ana Cremades, and closed by the General Secretary for Research, Raquel Yotti.

The EIF is a non-profit association whose aim is to promote innovative culture in the business world, universities, public administrations and, in general, all areas related to the generation of knowledge, established as a platform for cooperation between universities and companies in the fields of research, development and innovation.