Pascual Muñoz, Universitat Politècnica de València and Co-founder and chairman of the board, VLC Photonics is member of the Steering Committee of ECIO 2017
about Pascual Muñoz
Pascual Muñoz leads research on Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). Dr. Muñoz received the VPI Speed Up Photonics Award in 2002 for innovative AWG with multimode interference (MMI) couplers modeling, by Virtual Photonics and IEEE Communications Magazine, and the IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Program in 2002. He received the extraordinary doctorate prize from UPV in 2006. From his research line, he co-founded the UPV spin-off company VLC Photonics in 2011, where the PIC design know-how, expertise and tools have been transferred, and he served as CEO from 2011 to 2013. Dr. Muñoz is a Senior Member of the IEEE and OSA.
About Universitat Politècnica de València
The Universitat Politècnica de València educates people in order to enhance their skills; researches and generates knowledge, with the assurance of quality, rigor and ethics, in the fields of science, technology, art and business, with the aim of furthering the integral development of society and contributing to its technical, economic and cultural progress.
About VLC Photonics
VLC Photonics is a reliable partner, totally committed to your particular technical and business needs, human in the deal, and pioneer in the market development of application-specific photonic integrated circuits.
Our mission is to provide engineering solutions that allow our customers to harness the benefits of photonic integration, as well as to build up on our providers technologies. Our mission spans from the initial work of drafting high-level optical system architectures to the final part of specifying its deepest technical details, all the while under a customized approach to the specific application domain at hand.