Dr. Joaquin Faneca is a Research Fellow at the IMB-CNM (CSIC) in Barcelona. He obtained his BSc in Physics at the University of Seville and his master’s degree in new Photonic Technologies at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Afterward, he was awarded a research fellowship from EPSRC (UK) to pursue a PhD research project in photonic integrated circuits at University of Exeter (in close collaboration with the University of Southampton) and co-funded by Lumentum Operations LLC. He has been involved in the design, simulation, fabrication, and characterization of actively tunable devices based on Silicon and Silicon Nitride photonic integrated components combined with reconfigurable materials such as phase change materials, liquid crystals, and graphene, which has been used as key components for photonic systems. He is a reviewer for Scientific Reports, Optics Express, and Optical Materials Express.