Jesus H Mendoza-Castro received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie double-Ph.D. degree in electrical and information engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy and Engineering Sciences from Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher at TU Wien in the Chemical Analysis and Vibrational Spectroscopy, CAVS group. His work spans modeling, computational electromagnetic design, and experimental optical characterization, with a strong focus on resonant photonic structures and photonic integrated circuits for vibrational spectroscopy and optical sensing. His research interests also include metamaterial-based systems for controlling light–matter interaction, spatial light modulation and orbital angular momentum of light.