Inmaculada Pascual was born in Elche (Spain) in 1962. She received her MSc degree in Physics from the University of Granada (Spain) in 1985 and her Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Valencia (Spain) in 1990. In 1986 she joined the Optics Department at the University of Alicante and in 2000 she was appointed Full Professor of Optics. From 2005 to 2013 she was Head of the Department of Optics, at the University of Alicante, Spain. She is member of the "Holography and Optical Processing Group" (GHPO), a consolidated research group at the University of Alicante. She has carried out research in the fields of holography, mainly on holographic recording material, holographic optical elements, and optical data processing and storage. This research has given rise to 250 articles published in specialized journals. She has also presented 300 papers at many national and international congresses about Optics. She is the co-author of 8 book chapters, and co-inventor of 3 patents. She has been the main researcher in twelve research projects, infrastructure grants, complementary actions and research group grants subsidised by national, regional and European institutions. She has supervised ten PhD theses. She is Fellow Member of International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), Senior Member of Optica (formerly OSA), Member of the European Optical Society, and Member of the Spanish Optical Society.