Our Team
Sensors and Instrumentation
Techniques Group
SITec - UC3M
Pablo Acedo Gallardo
Full Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and leader of the Sensor and Instrumentation Techniques Research Group at the Electronic Technology Department. His research interests and experience range from the development of advanced optical sources (Optical Frequency Combs and Dual Optical Frequency Combs) to the implementation of novel spectroscopic techniques with applications in fields like biomedicine, environmental engineering, and military applications. Especially important is his activity in the development of biomedical diagnostics, like an instrument for the early detection of vascularization in engraftments with applications in tissue engineering and a non-invasive system for the measurement of sustained states of hyperglycemia. Finally, it is worth mentioning his leadership in knowledge transfer activities, where he has lead contracts with different companies such INDRA, AIRBUS D&S, LWL, SEAC, ...; especially exploiting the military applications of the developed optical sources. He was also co-founder of the spin-off Luz WaveLabs (www.luzwavelabs.com), which commercially exploits most of his developments in the photonic synthesis of THz and pulsed optical sources.
Principal Investigators
José A. García-Souto
José A. García-Souto received the degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in 1995 and the Ph.D. from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in 2003. Since 2004, he has been an Associate Professor in the Electronics Technology Department of UC3M. He has led several projects focused on the detection of acoustic emissions with fiber optic sensors, and on instrumentation and measurements in harsh environments, particularly large transformers and wind turbines. He started his research on fast interrogation of FBG and non-contact optical measurement systems in collaboration with Prof. David A. Jackson.
He is a member of the precompetitive academic unit on Disruptive Technologies in Biomedicine and also joined the UC3M4Safety team in 2017. He has been the Head of the Department (2011 - 2015) and Deputy Vice Chancellor of Strategy and Digital Education of UC3M (2015 - 2019). He is a member of IEEE, IMS, AESS.
His current research interests are optical sensors and instrumentation for safety and security, industrial and aerospace applications.
Pedro Martín Mateos
Pedro Martín-Mateos was appointed associate professor in the Department of Electronic Technology at UC3M in 2015. His research interests focus on the development of new laser-based spectroscopic techniques for analytical chemistry, environmental monitoring and biomedical research. Currently, he is working to extend the field of application of dispersion and comb-based spectroscopy, on the development of new THz spectrometers, on the performance enhancement of laser heterodyne radiometers for atmospheric sounding and on high resolution hyperspectral imaging.
Marta Ruiz-Llata
Marta Ruiz-Llata is a Professor in the Department of Electronic Technology at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M, Spain) since 2010, where she also received the degree of “Ingeniera Industrial” in 1998 and the PhD degree in Electrical, Electronics and Automation Engineering in 2005. During her PhD she spent 7 months as visiting student with the Photonic Systems Laboratory at MIT, where she learned about holographic optical interconnections and optoelectronic neural network co-processors. In September 2019 she joined the Precision Laser Diagnostics group at CU Boulder for one year during her sabbatical leave from UC3M, where she learned about dual-comb spectrometers and their application to make measurements in combustion and atmospheric processes.
Her research interests are focused on the development of optical sensors for industrial and environmental applications and the investigation of machine learning algorithms with application in instrumentation systems.
She has experience on interferometry, infrared and mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy, photoacoustic spectroscopy, and LiDAR systems.
Cristina de Dios Fernández
Dr. Cristina de Dios is an associate professor at the Electronics Technology Department and a member of the Sensors and Instrumentation Techniques Group at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. She received the Doctorate degree in 2010 for her work in ultrafast pulsed diode lasers and nonlinear pulse compression at the same university. Since then, her research interests have expanded to include optical frequency comb generation techniques, nonlinear optical phenomena, sub-terahertz and millimeter wave photonic signal synthesis and detection and photonic integrated technology oriented to the miniaturization of complex sensing architectures.
Senior Researches & Post-Docs
Mahmoud Amouzadeh Tabrizi
Mahmoud Amouzadeh Tabrizi received his BSc degree in chemistry from the department of chemistry, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, in 2005. He received his MSc in chemistry in 2008 from the Department of Chemistry Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran in the field of analytical chemistry. He received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 2013 from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran. In 2013, he won a postdoctoral fellowship supported by Iran's national elites foundation and joined to the prof. Mojtaba Shamsipur’s research group at the Department of Chemistry at Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. In 2015, he won the outstanding Iranian young researchers fellowship that was supported by Iran science elites federation, the presidency of Iran In Research center for Science and Technology in Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran. In 2018, he won a Martí i Franquès-Postdoctoral II Fellowship (La Caxia Cofund program) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain, and joined to the Lluis F Marsal’s group at the Department of Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering. In 2020 he awarded CONEX-Plus-Postdoctoral Fellowship (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Cofund) program at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, in Spain. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Prof. Pablo Acedo’s group at the Electronic Technology Department. His main research interests are in electrochemical and optical sensors and biosensors, green synthesis of graphene nanocomposite conducting polymers, nanoporous anodic alumian, and nanomotors. He has published over 47 scientific papers in international journals, 2 book chapters, and 5 US patents.
Aldo L. Moreno-Oyervides
Aldo Moreno-Oyervides received his B.E. degree in Electronics (with honors) from the Tecnológico Nacional de México (TecNM) in 2012, the M.Sc. degree in Mathematical Engineering, and the Ph.D. degree (Cum laude and Doctorado International Distinction) in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. The M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees were fully funded through competitive grants. He was a visiting researcher (four-months stay) at the Centro de Investigación y Modelamiento de Fenómenos Aleatorios – Valparaíso (CIMFAV), fully funded through “Becas Santander Iberoamérica Investigación” program. His doctoral thesis, conducted in the Sensors and Instrumentation Techniques (SITec) research group, addressed a novel spectroscopy system for non-invasive and in-vivo sensing of sustained hyperglycemia that was experimentally assessed (from animal model testing to a clinical trial) using advanced statistical techniques for spectral data analysis. His main research interests are the development/optimization of spectroscopic techniques and optical sensors for biomedical, environmental and industrial applications, and the investigation of machine learning, statistical and mathematical methods for spectral data processing, modelling and analysis, including the development of predictive tools.
José ramón López fernández
José Ramón López obtained his Industrial Engineer degree from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1997) and, since 2002, he is an associate professor at the same University. He has more than 10 years of experience in embedded systems development and signal processing, having designed data acquisition and processing hardware for onboard systems for defense and aeronautics companies in Spain. His research interests are related to embedded signal processing (using DSP and FPGA) and optimization of algorithms for instrumentation.
Oscar E. Bonilla Manrique
Oscar E. Bonilla-Manrique is an associate professor in the Department of Electronic Technology at the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M, Spain) since 2018 and researcher of the Sensor and Instrumentation Techniques Research Group at the Electronic Technology Department. He received his Ph.D. cum laude in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Automation from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in 2020. He was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics (Technische Universität Wien). He was born in Neiva, Huila, Colombia, in 1988. He received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering in 2008 from the University Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, he was the best average grade. He received the M.S. degrees in telecommunications engineering and electronic systems engineering both from Carlos III University, Leganes, Spain, in 2015. His research interests are focused on the development of optical sensors, measurement systems for industrial applications, analytical chemistry and environmental monitoring based on spectroscopy techniques such as photoacoustic, wavelength modulation and infrared and mid-infrared absorption spectroscopy. Further, in the development of electro-optic frequency comb sources for optical thickness measurement. Currently, he is working to designed and characterization the different optical sensors, and extend the field of application of photoacoustic and Dual-comb, on the development of new architecture for PAS_Dual-comb, on the performance enhancement, portability and a high sensibility.
PhD Students
Farid Ullah Khan
I am from Pakistan and I have completed my máster in electrical engineering from NUST, Islamabad. My thesis was on radio over fiber based system. Alonwith with my studies I also did fulltime job as laboratory engineer in a public university. I was awarded erasmus+ exchange scholarhsip at univ. of Malaga, Spain. Currently I am pursuing PhD in photonics at UC3M, Spain.
Ana Matesanz Fernández-Arias
I have obtained two bachelors’ degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Telecommunication Systems Engineering both from the CEU San Pablo University, I hold a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and I am pursuing actually a Ph.D. in Science and Biomedical Technology at the Carlos III University. I am participating in the research group of BIOPIELTEC, and I am performing my thesis under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Acedo and Dr. Jose Luis Jorcano. I am working in the development of in vitro biologically functional tissues, 3D cultures of human skin typically named as dermal-epidermal skin equivalents, incorporating sensing functionalities of relevant biological parameters (oxygen, temperature, humidity, pH…) in order to evaluate the 3D culture viability in a patient skin transplant.
Saúl Vikran López Hidalgo
I have a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technologies Engineering (2021) and a master´s degree in Electronic Systems and Applications Engineering (2022), both awarded by the University Carlos III of Madrid.
As a master's thesis, I have developed a magnetic field sensor based on diamond color centers. My areas of interest are optical sensors for various applications, photonic technologies, design and implementation of electronic circuits and, recently, quantum technologies.
I am currently collaborating in the research group as a Ph.D.
Laboratory Technicians
Cindy Alejandra Báez Rivera
Cindy Báez graduated as an Electronic Engineer in Automation and Control at the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas – ESPE in 2016. She completed a master's degree in Electronic Systems Engineering and Applications at the University Carlos III of Madrid in 2021.
She has worked as an intern at Empresa Eléctrica del Norte (EMELNORTE) and developed a redundant SCADA system for one of the company's electrical substations as a final degree project.
She participated in the NANOSTART project with the implementation of an optical communications module in free space for communication between nanosatellites, as a master's thesis.
She is currently working in the SiTEC Research Group as technical research support staff for the AEROMIC project, in the Electronics Department of the University Carlos III of Madrid.
Yuliy Moreno Sanoyan
I have a degree in Communications Systems Engineering and a Master's degree in Electronic Systems and Applications Engineering, both obtained at the University Carlos III of Madrid in 2018 and 2020, respectively.
The topic of my FDP has been the development and implementation of a wireless communications system for connecting devices via USB, while the topic of my master’s thesis has been the development and implementation of an analog wireless sound system with digital control.
Currently, I am working as a research support technician in the SITec group of the Electronics Deparment and the main pillars of my work are spectroscopy and photoacoustics, since the main purpose of these is to obtain and analyze the absorption spectra of various gases. My interests are: electronics, photonics, programming and operating adverse devices with a computer, and photoacoustics.
Group Manager
Wilman Daniel Chávez Carcelén
He is graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 and he has a master's degree in Industrial Engineering in 2021, both awarded by the University Carlos III of Madrid.
In 2019, while he was studying the master, he was an intern at the UC3M Research Service (OTRI), giving support to the management of European projects for a period of one year.
He currently works as a administrative manager giving support to the research groups SITec, of the Electronics Deparment, and TERMeG, of the Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering Department.
