Martí Duocastella

Marti Duocastella is a professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and leader of the Dynamic Optical Systems Lab (www.ub.edu/dlight). After completing his PhD in Physics at UB in 2010, he moved to Princeton University as a postdoctoral research associate, where he also became the vice-president of Research and Development of the startup company TAG Optics. In 2014 he joined Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia as a researcher (group leader), until returning to Barcelona as a faculty member in 2019. Marti’s research focuses on novel optical methods for three-dimensional (3D) light engineering, with applications in materials science, sensing, and biology. Key examples of his work in this area include the development of laser catapulting for additive micro-optics manufacturing, acousto-optofluidic systems for focusing and shaping the light at sub-microsecond time scales, and fast inertia free optical microscopes for unprecedented volumetric imaging speed. Overall, Marti has published peer-review papers in journals such as Nature Photonics, Advanced Optical Materials, Optica, and ACS Photonics, and given over 30 invited talks at international conferences and workshops. He is the co-inventor of 4 patents – one of them is licensed by Mitutoyo Corporation, and the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020) and an ICREA Academia award (2021).