nireEHU AGUSTIN JOEL VILLATORO BERNARDO
- Knowledge area
- Theory of Signals and Communications
- Department
- Communications Engineer
- Centre
- Faculty of Engineering - Bilbao
- Electronic mail
- agustinjoel.villatoro@ehu.eus
Joel Villatoro received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in optics from the INAOE-Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He is currently Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Faculty of Engineering Bilbao of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. Prior to this permanent position, he was Research Fellow at Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (U.K.) and Ramon y Cajal scientist at the world-renown Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Spain. He has also held research posts at the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica A. C., Mexico, the University of Valencia, Spain, and the Case Western Reserve University, USA.
He has 6 international patents and more than 90 journal and 74 conference papers to his credit. Until December 2023, he scored more than 6300 citations and an h-index of 44 in ‘Google Scholar.’ Thus, in 2021, 2022, and 2023 he was included in the prestigious list of the World’s top 2% scientists published by Stanford University and Elsevier.
Joel has given 2 plenary and more than 26 invited talks at reputed international conferences. He has mentored, supervised, or hosted people from different nationalities, including 4 postdoctoral Fellows, 12 PhD students, 4 MSc students, and 2 undergraduate students.
Joel is IEEE Senior member and OPTICA Fellow (since 2020) for his seminal contributions to the research and development of interferometric optical fiber sensors and their applications.