Professor Jose Luis Cruz was born in Cuenca (Spain) in 1964. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Valencia (Spain) in 1992. Initially, his career focused on microwave devices for radar applications, and afterwards, he joined the Optoelectronics Research Center of the University of Southampton (UK) where he was working in optical fiber fabrication and he is currently a Professor at the Applied Physics Department at the University of Valencia where he is conducting research on fiber lasers and amplifiers, fiber gratings, microwave photonics and sensors. He is a co-inventor of ten patents related to the above mentioned topics, has published over 180 papers in international journals and attended more than 250 in conferences. He has also been Vice-Dean of the Physics Faculty and was Director of the Applied Physics Department for thirteen years.