José Miguel López-Higuera is Member Fellow SPIE, Member Fellow OSA, Member Senior IEEE and Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Cantabria.
R&D LEADER AND ORGANIZER: Head of Electronic Technology Department, ULAH, (1981-1984). Director of the Technical School of Telecommunications Engineers, ULAH, Madrid, 1984-1985). Director of COIE of UC, Spain (2001 to 2004). Founder and head of the Photonics Engineering Group, PEG, UC (1992). Member of +27 international Committees of Conferences (including Steering ones), R&D Institutions and Companies; 15 Spanish Committees in the field of Sensing and Instrumentation. Director of Advanced Course on Light Sciences and Technologies for a new World. Universidad Internacional Ménéndez Pelayo, UIMP, 2015. 20 highly reputed invited Speakers. Director of International School on Light Sciences and Technologies. UIMP, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. Highly reputed invited Speakers including the Nobel Laureates Andre Geim, Sujhi Nakamura and Donna Strickland. General Chairman of EWOFS, 2004 and OFS23, 2014.
EDUCATOR: More than 42 graduate courses. Author or co-author of more than 25 teaching notebooks. Supervisor +70 Final Degree Projects. +23 postgraduate courses (5 in quality awarded PhD programmes). Director of 21 PhD theses (7 with extraordinary PhD award) framed inside the Photonics/fiber sensing field.
RESEARCHER AND R&D MANAGER: Firsts lithium niobate integrated optic devices fabricated in Spain (1988). His work focuses on Optical Fibre Sensor Systems and Instrumentations for Civil Engineering, Construction, Electrical Power Generation, Aero-space, Siderurgy, Automotive, Environmental, Medical and Biomedical, Smart Structure applications. 140 R&D&i projects (+90 on open competitive public and/or private funding calls acting on +90 as manager, coordinator or main researcher). R&D stays at BT Laboratories in Ipswich (1993); ORC, UK (2005) and at the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, of the NCC, US, (2005).
PAPERS & PATENTS: More than 870 research publications. 591 international including four books, 16 chapters of books, 528 peer reviewed papers (196 in regular journals); 84 invited talks (43 international). 27 patents closely related to optical and fiber techniques for sensors and instrumentations; two in preparation to be filled. An International Patent and an International patent with the Dartmouth College, USA in the field of Cancer detection. The last filled European patent with the SCS for the new optoelectronic device for Braquitearphy. Editor and co-author of four R&D international books. Co-Editor of several conference proceedings and magazines. Guest Editor of several Special Issues on Optical Fiber Sensors published on IEEE Sensor Journal, on Optical Fiber Technology, on Journal of Light wave Technology and on Sensors MDPI.
REFEREE&EVALUATION: Reviewer in the field of Photonics: Nature Materials, Optics Express, Optic Letters, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE
