Vicente Micó received the MS degree in Physics from the Universitat de Valencia in 1999 and the BS degree in Optics and Optometry in 2000. Since then, he was working in AIDO (Technological Institute of Optics, Colour and Imaging) where he was the head of the Optical Design Unit at the Optical Engineering Department from the beginning of 2006 until the beginning of 2009. His main working areas during this 9 year period of time was related with industrial applications concerning the fields of photometry, testing luminaires, optical design of luminaires and illumination systems, optics for solar concentration, optical metrology by interferometry (mainly speckle and Michelson-Morley configurations), and fiber optic sensors to testing structures.
From 2002 until the beginning of 2009, he was also an external collaborator of the Optoelectronic Image Processing Group (GPOEI) of the Optics Department at the Universitat de Valencia. This fact allowed him to obtain the Ph.D. in Physics in 2008 at the Universitat de Valencia having the title of “Experimental research on superresolution imaging in digital holographic microscopy by synthetic aperture generation” and under the supervision of Profs. Javier García and Zeev Zalevsky from the Universitat de Valencia and the University of Bar-Ilan, respectively.
From 2009 until 2014 he was Assistant Professor at the Optics Department at the University of Valencia, and from 2014 until 2016 he was temporary hired associate professor at the same department. He is currently Hired Associate Professor at the University of Valencia. He is a member of the Optoelectronic Image Processing Group headed by Prof. Javier García.
According to his university degrees, his research interests are in two general areas: opto-electronic imaging and optometry/vision science. As a physicist, he is actively working in optical metrology, digital holography, digital holographic microscopy, quantitative phase imaging and optical superresolution, including vibration and deformation metrology, speckle applications, lensless coherent imaging, and setups based on spatial light modulators. As an optometrist, he is working in theoretical aspects on advanced physiological and visual optics as well as in the development of novel optometric instruments for the measurement of ocular parameters and for characterization of ophthalmic lenses.
He is of the Spanish Optical Society and he was the Editor in Chief at the Special Issue titled “Optical microscopic and spectroscopic techniques targeting biological applications” (www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/15200/optical-microscopic-and-spectroscopic-techniques-targeting-biological-applications) of the journal “Frontiers in Physics” from the publisher Frontiers. Full editorial board: Vicente Mico, Giancarlo Pedrini, Ming Lei, Chao Zuo, and Peng Gao (2021).
Some additional general indicators of quality of scientific production
Six-year research period (sexenios): 3 (Last granted: 2015-2020, both included).
Supervised doctoral thesis: 3 (full data included at the project proposal).
Bibliometric indicators from JCR at Web of Science:
Total number of publications (articles only): 151.
Total citations/without self-citations: 2717/2154.
Average citations per year: 129.38 from 2004.
Year of maximum number of publications: 2011 (17 publications).
Year of maximum number of citations: 2022 (271 citations).
H number according to JCR: 30.
54 publications on first quartile of JCR (30 in last 10 years period – 2013/2023).
Most cited manuscript: V. Mico et al., J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 23, 3162 (2006).
Number of citations of the most cited paper: 242 (at date 25-Jan-2024).