SIV I Fiber optic sensors in smart cities - Manuel López-Amo Sainz

Описание: Manuel López-Amo Sainz, Public University of Navarra

Biography

Manuel López-Amo was born in Madrid and is a University Professor and head of the Optical Communications Group at the Public University of Navarra (Spain) since 1996. He has published more than 350 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings related to fiber optic sensors, fiber networks, lasers and integrated optics. He has led more than 40 research projects, has directed 18 doctoral theses and has been or is a member of 34 technical committees of international conferences, currently with the Optical Fiber Sensors Conference, (OFS) and European Workshop on fibre optic sensors (EWOFS). He was chairman of the technical committee at the OFS23 conference and he will be again the technical chairman of the OFS29.

Since 2020, he belongs to the 2% of the most cited scientists in the world, according to the Stanford University ranking. He is a member of the IEC/CENELEC expert committee in working group TC 86/SC 86C/WG 2: Fibre optic sensors since 2012. He is or has been associate editor of the journals: Scientific reports, Frontiers in sensors and Journal of Lightwave Technology among others. He was also chairman of the Optoelectronics committee of the Spanish Optics Society and has received 5 research awards. He has directed the Faculty of Industrial and Telecommunications engineers of the Public University of Navarra and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the same university. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the OSA.

Fiber optic sensors in smart cities.


Fiber optic sensors are set to play an important role in smart cities. In this presentation we will see some practical contributions of the Public University of Navarra in this field, including sensors for building, energy, traffic monitoring and water quality measurement, among others.