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Prof. Maria L. Calvo graduated in Physics in 1969 at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain). After graduation she first visited Phillips (Eindhoven, Holland) and started working on quality control on glass fabrication (surface quality). Later, she became a fellow of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. At the Institute of Optics she continued to work on optical properties of glasses and amorphous materials (microhardness and experimental Rayleigh light scattering) and obtained a Doctorate Diploma from the University of Paris VI (France,1971). In 1972 she contacted Prof. Armando Durán, (known for his work on night myopia along with Otero in 1941-43) who was currently a professor of Optics at UCM. She joined the Optics Department of UCM as an assistant professor and started working on theoretical aspects of scattering of light by defects in isotropic media. She presented a Ph.D. dissertation (with honors) on this subject in June 1977. In 1981 she became an associate professor and in 1999 obtained the Chair of Optics at the same department. During thirty five years (1972-2007) she have been working in theoretical formalisms for light scattering, optical waveguide theory and applications to periodic and aperiodic media (volume holographic gratings) as well as photomaterials. In 1985-86 she was a visiting professor at the University of California (School of Optometry, Berkeley, USA) and re-visited later in 1988 ,1989 and 1997. She collaborated with Prof. Jay M. Enoch and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan on modeling retinal Optical Photoreceptors applying electromagnetic framework: absorption, pupil effect, linearity and more recently on birefringence and stress induced changes on guides structure and analysis through scattered light. Prof. Calvo is concerned with the education, professional issues and carrier in Optics and Photonics for young researchers. She has coordinated a new text book on Advanced Optics, another one in Virtual Laboratory of Optics and in 2007 she coordinated with V. Lakshminarayanan a text in: Optical Waveguides: From Theory to Applied Technolologies. She is teaching undergraduate and graduate courses of Optics at the Physics Master degree. She have supervised eight thesis and is currently directing another three projects. Her main areas are Electromagnetic Theory of Optical Waveguides, Optical Imaging, Holography, Photoreceptors Optics and Neutron Optics. Recently, with her former student Pavel Cheben (NRC, Canada) they have developed a new photopolymerisable glass for holographic data storage with diffraction efficiency near 100%. Now, after thirty years of former studies, she applies the fundamentals on optical properties of glasses and is working with her group and other collaborators on improving the current performances for applications in optical computing and signal processing. The group has recently detected for the first time the pendellösung effect in the optical domain. As a resume, she is the author of more than 130 scientific publications on the subjects mentioned above. Also, she is interested in early history of lenses (with Jay M. Enoch). In 1993 she established the Interdisciplinary Group for Bio-Optics Research (GIBO-UCM), later becoming the Interdisciplinary Group for Optical Computing (GICO-UCM) developing current applications of Optical Signal Theory and applications to conventional and unconventional optical processing of information, Holography and Scattering theory of Light. From 1994-99 she collaborated with the Spanish Ministry of Defense (National Institute for Aero-spatial Technique, INTA). She has been president of the Image Technical Committee of the Spanish Optical Society (SEDO) (1992-1997). She was a Traveling Lecturer of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) in 1998, elected Vice-president at the ICO Bureau (1999-2002 term) and she has been elected Secretary-General of ICO (term 2002-2005). She was reelected for the term 2005-2008. She also collaborates with the General Directorate for Research and Technology of the European Union in Brussels and with the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP. Trieste, Italy). She is an elected Fellow of OSA, an elected Fellow of SPIE (were she works in the Women in Optics core Group), and EOS.
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