MARCELO MARTINS WERNECK was born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC) in 1975. He obtained his M.Sc. from the Biomedical Engineering Program at COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1977. In 1978, he joined the Department of Electronics and Computing at UFRJ, where he is currently a Full Professor. His Ph.D. was obtained from the University of Sussex, UK, in 1985. He is currently the coordinator of the Instrumentation and Photonics Laboratory of the Electrical Engineering Program at COPPE, where he develops research in optical fiber sensors, instrumentation, and transducers. His research is concentrated in the areas of electrical engineering, oil and gas, and biotechnology. In 2014, he participated in the accreditation at UFRJ and the CAPES of COPPE's 13th Postgraduate Program, the Nanotechnology Engineering Program (PENt), where he develops research into nanophotonics and nanobiosensors.