Senior Lecturer in the Department of Optics, Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Valencia, where she teaches, conducts research and performs management duties in the field of vision sciences and applied psychophysics.

Academic background

She is an Optician Optometrist and holds a PhD from the University of Alicante. Her doctoral thesis (2013) focused on the design and validation of an incremental threshold campimeter, addressing psychophysical methods for the evaluation of visual function. This training marked her specialisation in experimental and quantitative techniques applied to vision. After completing her PhD, she joined the University of Valencia, where she has developed her career in collaboration with the FOM centre (GVA Medical Ophthalmology Foundation).

Teaching activity

His teaching focuses on the Bachelor's Degree in Optics and Optometry and postgraduate studies, teaching subjects related to:

• Psychophysics of vision
• Optometry
• Visual diagnostic techniques

He supervises Bachelor's and Master's Degree Final Projects, actively contributing to the practical and scientific training of students.

He participates in teaching innovation projects, including the development of digital resources and MOOCs.

Research

He is a member of the Applied Psychophysics Group at the University of Valencia. His main lines of research include:

• Psychophysical assessment of visual function
• Design and validation of instruments for visual testing
• Clinical applications of psychophysics
• Visual quality and perception

She has published scientific articles in specialist journals and contributed to national and international conferences.

Academic management

She has taken on university management responsibilities, including the coordination of various degree courses, and is currently the coordinator of the GOO. In this role, she has participated in academic planning, curriculum improvement and teaching quality assurance.

Educational innovation and dissemination

She collaborates in scientific dissemination activities related to vision and optics, both in the university and professional spheres.

Overall profile

Her profile combines teaching, research, management and dissemination in a balanced way, with a clear focus on improving knowledge and training in optics, optometry and vision sciences.

Manuel Martinez-Corral was born in Spain in 1962.

Received Ph. D. degree in Physics in 1993 from the University of Valencia (honored with the Ph.D. Extraordinary Award). Currently Full Professor of Optics at the University of Valencia, where co-leads the “3D Imaging and Display Laboratory”.

Teaching experience includes lectures and supervision of laboratory experiments for undergraduate students on Geometrical Optics, Optical Instrumentation, Diffractive Optics and Image Formation. Lectures on Diffractive Optics for Ph.D. students.

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. Has supervised on these topics 18 Ph. D. students (three of them honored with the Ph.D. Extraordinary Award), published over 120 technical articles in major journals (which received more than 5.000 citations), and has 12 granted patents, two licensed to Spin-off of the UVEG.

Esteban Porcar Izquierdo is a university professor in the field of Optometry and Vision Sciences. He holds a degree in Optics and Optometry and a PhD in Health and Well-being Sciences from the University of Valencia. His teaching focuses mainly on problems related to binocular vision. His research lines include the study of corneoscleral lenses and non-strabismic binocular vision anomalies. He has participated in research and knowledge transfer projects, contributing to the advancement of visual health and the improvement of clinical practice in Optometry.

I hold a degree in Optics and Optometry from the University of Valencia (1996). At the same university, I completed the MSc in Advanced Optometry and Vision Sciences (2012) and the PhD in Optometry and Vision Sciences (2017). I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Optics and Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Valencia. In addition, I earned a BSc in Psychology from UNED (2010), completed postgraduate training in Statistics and Probability Applied to Medicine (UNED, 2011), and took a course in Programming and Data Analysis with R (University of Salamanca, 2023).

My research focuses on physiological optics and optometry applied to refractive surgery, with a particular interest in multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs). My PhD thesis, entitled Novel segmented-design refractive multifocal intraocular lenses, addressed the characterization of segmented-design refractive multifocal IOLs and their optometric management.

I am a co-author of 101 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (34 in Q1 journals), and my h-index is 20 (Web of Science). I have contributed to 100 communications at scientific meetings (55 national and 45 international), and I have co-authored three books and 17 book chapters in the field of optometry and refractive surgery. I currently participate as a researcher in the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation funded project PID2021-122486OA-I00 (AL-LIO), "Design of a clinical decision algorithm in the selection process of the type of IOL to be implanted to correct presbyopia and cataract".

My current work focuses on developing new subjective refraction procedures based on vector formalism, and on the in vitro and in vivo characterization of advanced monofocal IOLs and extended-depth-of-focus IOLs.

Susana Ortí Navarro graduated in Optics and Optometry from the University of Valencia (UV) in 1996. From 2006 to 2008, she completed the first edition of the Official Master's Degree in Advanced Optometry and Vision Sciences at the UV, and obtained her doctorate in 2010. Her contract as an Doctor Assistant began in October 2020, and her contract as a Permanent Professor in October 2024. From 2015 to 2020, she taught as an Associate Professor at the UV, combining this activity with her work in various ophthalmology clinics. She began her research in 2008 with the start of her doctoral thesis within the Optometry Research Group (GIO). Currently, her research is carried out at the UV, in the Faculty of Physics, within the Department of Optics, Optometry, and Vision Sciences. She belongs to the GAP research group (Applied Psychophysics Group), where various studies on visual perception are conducted. They also develop protocols for measuring in vitro optical quality, as well as optical and visual quality measurements of intraocular lenses.

My training began with a degree in Physics (started in 1993) and an early attraction to Optics, which soon became the common thread of my career. During that period, I had experiences that shaped the way I understand science: hands-on experimental work (Rotary Award, 1997) and my first contact with knowledge transfer and industry through an ADEIT placement at AIDO. After receiving the Extraordinary Degree Award (1997–98), I completed my PhD with an FPI fellowship (1998–2002), working on optical image processing using multiplexing techniques. I later incorporated a line of three-dimensional correlation methods that led to my first international publication (Applied Optics, 1999) and a research stay at the Institut Fresnel (Marseille). In parallel, I earned a Diploma in Optics and Optometry, which allowed me to connect my physics background with clinical application, and I completed this stage with the PhD in Physics (2002).

After the PhD, I spent an especially intensive decade at AIDO (from 2003, through a Torres Quevedo contract), where I developed and led machine-vision projects for a wide range of industrial sectors and took part in several competitive publicly funded R&D projects. That period taught me the value of applied R&D, team management, and the need to translate real-world problems into robust solutions. Some projects achieved international impact, while others connected directly with the optometric field, generating patents and technology transfer.

In 2013, I came back to the Universitat de València to join the Optometry Research Group and work on an ERC project on accommodation and emmetropization. During this stage, I began a sustained scientific output (JCR-indexed publications, book chapters, and conference contributions) and expanded my activity toward clinical research, instrumentation, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Later, I extended my work into visual neuroscience, exploring psychophysical models and fMRI analysis. Since 2018, I have consolidated my academic teaching career, with a clear commitment to teaching through reasoning, promoting teaching innovation (gamification, active learning, the DAKI approach), and supporting students.

In recent years, I have maintained my teaching and research activity and co-supervised doctoral theses in areas such as vector notation for astigmatism, tunable lenses, and Gabor in-line holography, while also taking on academic management responsibilities (master’s co-directorship, coordination of external placements, coordination of the doctoral program, and student mentoring/support programs).

Overall, my trajectory can be read as a sustained commitment to learning, improving, and contributing—integrating science, teaching, and university service with the conviction that the university is, above all, a space for transformation. Along the way, I have tried to keep constant the principles I consider essential to the way I work: honesty, rigor, curiosity, responsibility, and commitment, with a clear vocation to add value to public higher education through teaching, research, innovation, and management.