Nowadays, the core of our research team, which mainly works at the School of Engineering of Bilbao (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) includes 11 PhD members (Joseba Zubia, Jon Arrue, Gotzon Aldabaldetreku, Gaizka Durana, Felipe Jiménez, Amaia Berganza, Asun Illarramendi, Peio Aiestaran, Andrea Blanco, Iñaki Bikandi, Begoña García and Joel Villatoro in approximated order of incorporation), 4 PhD students (Eneko Arrospide, Oskar Arrizabalaga, Mikel Azkune and Itxaso Parola) 1 senior lecturer (Victoriano Domínguez) and a postgraduate student (Iker García). One by one we present ourselves as follows:

Title: Professor at the Department of Communications Engineering (UPV/EHU)
Researcher on Liquid Crystals, POFs (active and passive) and Photonic Applications since 1989 (PhD since 1993)
Phone: 34-94-6014138
e-mail: joseba.zubia@ehu.es

Current research activities

POFs, Fabrication of microstructured polymer optical fibres, Fiber Sensors and Photonic Applications.

Current teaching subjects

• Optical Communications-I
• Optical Communications-II
• Industrial Photonics
• Space Interferometry (Master on Science and Technology of Space)
• Research Methodology (Master degree on Telecommunications)

Title: Associate Professor at the Department of Communications Engineering (UPV/EHU)
Researcher on POFs (active and passive) since 1993 (PhD since 1999)
Phone: 34-94-6014144
e-mail: jon.arrue@ehu.es

Current research activities

POFs doped with organic dopants to achieve efficient optical amplifiers and lasers.

Current teaching subjects

• Optical Communications-I
• Optical Communications-II
• Analysis of Circuits

Title: Assistant professor at the Department of Communications Engineering (UPV/EHU)
Researcher on POFs since 2000 (PhD since 2006)
Phone: 34-94-6014177
e-mail: gotzon.aldabaldetreku@ehu.es

Current research activities

Characterization and fabrication of polymer optical fibers and fiber-optic sensors.

Current teaching subjects

• Optical Communications-II
• Radiocommunications
• Electromagnetic fields
• Space interferometry (Master on Science and Technology of Space)
• Radio over fiber (Master in Mobile Network Information and Communication Technologies)

Title: Assistant professor at the Department of Communications Engineering (UPV/EHU)
Researcher on POFs since 2000 (PhD since 2008)
Phone: 34-94-6014128
e-mail: gaizka.durana@ehu.es

Current research activities

Fabrication of microstructured polymer optical fibres; design and development of new mPOF-based sensors.

Current teaching subjects

• Optical Communications-II
• Electromagnetic fields
• Space interferometry (Master on Science and Technology of Space)
• Radio over fiber (Master in Mobile Network Information and Communication Technologies)

Title: Associate Professor for the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Superior Technical School of Engineering of Bilbao, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Phone: +34-946014167
e-mail: felipe.jimenez@ehu.es

Current research activities

Numerical simulation of light propagation in doped polymer optical fibers.

Current teaching subjects

• Numerical Analysis II
• Statistical Methods
• Advanced Numerical Methods

Title: Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics (UPV/EHU)
Phone: 34-94-6014254
e-mail: ma.illarramendi@ehu.es

Current research activities

• Doped Polymer Optical Fibers: characterization, emission, fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers.
• Polymer Optical Fibers: characterization, properties, scattering.

Current teaching subjects

• Physics
• Physics Widening
• Space interferometry (Master on Science and Technology of Space)

Title: Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Applied Mathematics (UPV/EHU)
Researcher on POFs since 2007.
Phone: 34-94-6017305 / 34-94-6014417
e-mail: amaia.berganza@ehu.es

Current research activities

Multicore Plastic Optical Fibers

Current teaching subjects

• Calculus
• Algebra

Title: Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Technology
Phone: 34 94 601 018641
e-mail: pedromaria.aiestaran@ehu.es

Current research activities

POFs Sensors, Engineering projects.

Current teaching subjects

• Industrial Electronics
• Analog Electronics

Title: Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Technology (UPV/EHU).
Phone: 34 94 601 018642
e-mail: victoriano.dominguez@ehu.es

Current research activities

POFs Sensors, Engineering projects.

Current teaching subjects

• Industrial Electronics
• Telecommunications in Industry
• Maintenance of Industrial Devices
• Electronic Technology

Title: PhD Student at the Department of Communications Engineering (UPV/EHU)
Project Manager and Responsible for the Photonics Area at Tecnalia Research & Innovation since 2009. Researcher in Photonics devices for telecommunications at Tecnalia Research & Innovation since 2007.
Phone: 34-615-170054
e-mail: andrea.blanco@tecnalia.com

Current research activities

Micro- and nano-photonic devices for a range of applications, from optical buffer memories to sensing or photovoltaics, exploiting photonic band gap materials and slow light effects.

Title: Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Communications Engineering (UPV/EHU)
Researcher on POFs (active and passive) since 2008
Phone: 34-94-6017342
e-mail:inaki.bikandi@ehu.es

Current research activities

POFs doped with organic dopants to achieve efficient optical amplifiers and lasers.

Current teaching subjects

• Telecommunication Networks and Services-II
• Architecture of Telecommunication Networks and Services
• Object Oriented Programming

Title: Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Applied Mathematics (UPV/EHU)
Phone: 34-94-6014463
e-mail: igor.ayesta@ehu.es

Current research activities

POFs doped with organic dopants to achieve efficient optical amplifiers and lasers.

Current teaching subjects

•     Algebra

Title: Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Applied Mathematics (UPV/EHU)
Phone: 34-94-6014420  / 34-94-6013557
e-mail: eneko.arrospide@ehu.es

Current research activities

Design, fabrication, and characterization of microstructured polymer optical fibers for data communications and sensing applications.

Current teaching subjects

• Algebra

Title: Research Assistant at the Applied Photonics Group (UPV/EHU)
Phone: 34-94-6017305
e-mail: iker.garciae@ehu.es

Current research activities

Design and development of an optical blade tip clearance and tip timing sensor

Title: Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Applied Mathematics (UPV/EHU)
Phone: 34-94-6014406
e-mail:mariabegona.garciar@ehu.es

Current research activities

Numerical simulation of light propagation in random lasers.

Current teaching subjects

• Algebra
• Operations Research
• Discrete Mathematics

Title: Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Department of Communications Engineering (UPV/EHU).
Phone: (34)94 601 7277
e-mail: agustinjoel.villatoro@ehu.es

Current research activities

Exploitation of the outstanding optical properties of nano-scale objects and the modal properties of photonic crystal fibres for sensor development. Development of photonic devices for real-world applications.

Title: PhD student at Applied Photonics Group (UPV/EHU).
Phone: (34)94 601 7305
e-mail: oskar.arrizabalaga@ehu.eus

Current research activities

Theoretical and experimental study of polarisation in microstructured polymer fibres optics (mPOFs)

Title: PhD student at Applied Photonics Group (UPV/EHU).
Phone: (34)94 601 7305
e-mail: mikel.azkune@ehu.eus

Current research activities

Surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy in microstructured optical fibers

Title: PhD student at Applied Photonics Group (UPV/EHU).
Phone: (34)94 601 7305
e-mail: itxaso.parola@ehu.eus

Current research activities

Time resolved spectroscopy, fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers

Title: Marie Sklodowska Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Communications Engineering (UPV/EHU) since 2018 (PhD since 2015)

Phone: (34)94 601 7277

e-mail: gorkem.memisoglu@ehu.es

Current research activities

Graphene-quantum dot based photonic device design, fabrication and characterizations.

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