Dr. Andrés Márquez received his MSc and PhD degrees in physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Since 2000, he has been with the Group of Holography and Optical Processing, Universidad de Alicante, where he is a Professor of Applied Physics. He has carried out research in the fields of holography, mainly on photopolymer materials and holographic data storage, liquid crystal spatial light modulators, optical image processing and diffractive optics. This research has given rise to more than 100 articles in journals included in the Journal Citation Reports and more than 200 communications to congresses, and he has co-directed 4 PhD theses. He has been actively involved in organizing and in scientific committees in more than 10 congresses and conferences. He has been a member of the Governing Board of the Spanish Optical Society (SEDOPTICA), Chairman of the Spanish Territorial Committee in the International Comission for Optics (ICO), and also Spanish Chairman in the Red Iberoamericana de Óptica (RIAO, Iberoamerican Optics Network). He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors in his Faculty in the University of Alicante, as the Head of his department, and as the Director of the Research Institute of Physics Applied to Sciences and Technologies (IUFACyT). He is a Fellow Member of SPIE and Senior Member of OPTICA.