Pascuala García Martínez is Professor of Optics at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Valencia. She holds a degree in Physics (1993) and a PhD in Physics (1998) from the Universitat de València. She has one son.

She has carried out several long-term research stays in foreign centres such as: Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz (France), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University (Israel) and her postdoctoral stay at Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Lasers, Universite Laval, Québec (Canada).

Her main field of research focuses on optics and photonics, specifically on the study of spatial light modulators, mainly on the characterisation and application of liquid crystals to diffraction and polarization.

She has been invited professor of the European ERASMUS Programme, to teach Optical Systems at Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique de Marseille, Universite d'Aix Provence, in Marseille (France). She is coordinator of an Inter-University Network of Teaching Innovation for the teaching of Optics, receiving uninterrupted funding from UVEG since 2014 www.uv.es/ioptica 

She has been Vice-Dean of Studies and Academic Organisation of the Faculty of Physics for the years 2018-2021, member of the Governing Council of the Universitat de València (2018-2020) and is a member of the UV Senate.

Appointed in February 2021 Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). She was the only Spanish researcher to receive this recognition that year, along with 56 scientists from other countries. She has also received the honorary mention of Senior member of the SPIE (International Society for optics and photonics founded in the United States in 1955) in 2010 and Senior member of the OSA (Optical Society of America) in 2015. 

Deeply committed to defending the rights of women researchers, she is president of the Specialised Group of "Women in Physics" of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and former president of the AMIT (Association of Women Researchers and Technologists)-MuCVal Node, she is also a member of the Board of Directors of AMIT. She is the representative of the Faculty of Physics in the Physics Commission of the Spanish Royal Society of Physics and former president of the AMIT-MuCVal Node.

Born in Spain in 1962, Manuel Martinez-Corral received Ph. D. in Physics in 1993 from the University of Valencia, which honored him with the Ph.D. Extraordinary Award. He is currently Full Professor of Optics at the University of Valencia, where he co-leads the “3D Imaging and Display Laboratory”. His teaching experience includes lectures and supervision of laboratory experiments on Geometrical Optics, Optical Instrumentation, Diffractive Optics and Image Formation. Fellow of the SPIE since 2010 and Fellow of the OSA since 2016, his research interest includes microscopic and macroscopic 3D imaging and display technologies. He has supervised on these topics seventeen Ph. D. students (three honored with the Ph.D. Extraordinary Award), published over hundred and fifteen technical articles in major journals (which have been cited more than 2.500 times, h-index=26), and pronounced over fifty invited and keynote presentations in international meetings. He is co-chair of the Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display Conference within the SPIE meeting in Defense, Security, and Sensing. He has been Topical Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, and is Topical Editor of the OSA journal Applied Optics.