João P. M. Carvalho completed his Bachelor’s degree in Technological Physics in 2021 at the University of Porto, and concluded a Master’s degree program in Engineering Physics in the same institution, in 2023. In the course of his formation, he has published several papers in international conferences in countries like Portugal, France or Japan. Since 2020, he is an associate member of the SPIE Chapter at the University of Porto, being an active voice in the promotion of optics and photonics for light-based technologies. Currently, he is a research assistant at INESC TEC, being involved in the development of fabrication and characterization of optical systems. His main research interests span from the simulation to the fabrication and characterization of surface waves in plasmonic and magnetoplasmonic films, photonic crystals and metamaterials towards optical sensors.