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Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

TNO optical department

Creating educational contents for higher education in the area of optics & physics

Netherlands

Contributing to the construction of Earth Observation satellites.Responsible for the precision manufacturing, calibration and testing of all the optical systems on the satellites.

Delft Area, Netherlands

• Conducted extensive research and development work, whilst working on various laser systems, such as 532nm and CO2 lasers. Prepared technical reports on product specifications as well as performed various tests..
• Supported with the optical and thermal set-up of a demonstrator inkles system.
• Supported and supervised activities related to processes and technologies.
• Contributed towards the intellectual property portfolio.Over Tocano: Startup, spin off from the Delft University of Technology developing printers which print on different substrates, in black and white, without.

Sevilla Area, Spain

• Development and consulting of technical projects within the R&D solar thermal department, mostly covering; photonic crystal fibres, light guides, optical concentrators, nonimaging optics and optical thin films coatings.
• Technical state of the art assessment, technological vigilance, conception of research lines, design proposals, optical modelling using LightTools and MATLAB, grant applications, fabrication and characterisation of the.
• Management responsibilities: planning, team coordination, budget control, reporting, liaison with collaborators (research institutions, third party labs…). Compliance with ISO standard testing procedures and.
• Participation in European projects. H2020 RISE project “Framework of Innovation for Engineering of New Durable Solar Surfaces (FRIENDS2, GA-645725). It focuses on the development, characterization and environmental.
• Experience working in clean room facilities and with vacuum coating processes such as PVD.
• Co-author of 2 patents.Over Abengoa: International company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the infrastructures, energy and water sectors. World leader in both technological and.

Madrid Area, Spain

• Institute of Optics, CSIC
• Research work in distributed optical fibre sensors, Raman and Brillouin fibre sensor assisted by Raman amplification, supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibres and optical metrology. Experience with.
• Participation in the European project IND14 "New generation of frequency standards for industry". financed by EURAMET EMRP.
• Collaboration and supervision of PhD students.Over IO: The institute of Optics is part of CSIC's network of research centres. The scientific objectives include every aspect of Optics and Photonics, with particular.

Madrid Area, Spain

United Kingdom

• Active research in the area of nonlinear optics and optical communications, dedicating 75% of the time to experimental work (characterizing, testing, verifying, building components and systems) and 25% to numerical.
• Presenting and communicating my own research work in conferences and international publications. I was the winner of PhD student poster competition from the School of Engineering and Applied Science 2008.
• Experience teaching the LAB-undergraduate course of Foundations of Physics & Engineering (approximately 40 students).

United Kingdom

• Powerlase Photonics Ltd (part of ANDRITZ Group)
• I was responsible for the construction, development and characterization of the acousto-optically switched, frequency double, diode pumped Nd: YAG laser systems, with average output powers up to 300W at 532nm.
• Field engineer and customer consulting on the company’s 532nm solid state laser.
• Management of suppliers and production support based on my technical and experimental knowledge of most of the company products (solid state lasers ranging up to 1KW average power output at 1064nm).

United Kingdom

• Experience on Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors for low light imaging, spectroscopy, scientific and space applications, operating in the visible and infrared.
• Responsible for new CCD product verification, testing and characterization against customer requirements and giving feedback of characterization results into the design of new products and assisting with the.
• Experience working in clean room facilities with vacuum systems.
• Managing the new product transition to production, with further responsibilities for yield and performance improvement. I applied six sigma tools to improve product performance and production efficiency. Responsible.
• Co-author of a research work regarding the effects of Gamma radiation in CCDs (charge couple devices). This work was developed in Teledyne e2v and contributed to the Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation category).

United Kingdom

Indigo Photonics Ltd (now part of Insensys Ltd)I was responsible for the construction and characterization of a tunable fibre laser using fibre Bragg gratings as feedback components. Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped fibres were used as gain media.

Phd, Photonics

Msc, Optoelectronics And Laser Devices

Msc, Optoelectronics And Laser Devices

Bsc, Applied Physics With Computing