and is now heading the Fiber Sensors and Supercontinuum Group. His current research interests include microstructured optical fibers in silica, polymer and soft glasses, fiber optical sensors for sensing biomolecules, pH, oxygen, humidity, stress/strain, in particular using Fibre Bragg gratings, as well as the fabrication and application of supercontinuum sources, in particular in imaging, such as OCT and photoacoustic imaging. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Beatriz Ortega (was born in Valencia, Spain, in 1972. She received the M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1995 from the Universidad de Valencia, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Currently working at the Departamento de Comunicaciones from the Universitat Politècnica de València and collaborating as a group leader in the Photonics Research Labs in the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications. She has published more than 200 papers and conference contributions in fibre Bragg gratings, microwave photonics and optical networks. She has got several patents and is also a co-founder of EPHOOX company. She has participated in a large number of European Networks of Excellence and R&D projects and other national ones. Her main research is currently focused on optical devices, optical networks and microwave photonic systems and applications. Kyriacos Kalli (C.Phys. MIEEE, SMOSA) received a B.Sc. in theoretical physics (1988) and Ph.D. in physics (1992) from the University of Kent, UK, where he studied linear and non-linear phenomena in optical fibers. He joined Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) in 2008 and is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics; he is also Director of the Photonics and Optical Sensors Research Laboratory and runs the Femtosecond Laser Foundry. He has 230+ journal and conference publications, is coauthor of "Fiber Bragg Gratings: Fundamentals and Applications in Telecommunications and Sensing. His research interests are in Bragg grating and optical fiber sensors, femtosecond laser micro-fabrication of photonic devices, microfluidics and plasmonics. Dr. Kalli is currently on the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Organization for Standardization.
