Mikel Aldaba

Mikel Aldaba received a BSc in Optics and Optometry in 2003 from the University of Valladolid, Spain, and a BSc in Optometry and Vision Science (including Best Graduate award) in 2005 from the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal. Subsequently, he enrolled in the PhD programme in Optical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), obtaining his degree in 2012 with a thesis on the eye's accommodative response measurement by means of a double-pass system. Subsequently, he received funding from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for a two years post-doc to develop a method for dry eye assessment. Since then he has participated in many research projects as a member of the Optical Engineering Research Group (GREO, Grup de Recerca en Enginyeria Òptica) that belongs to the CD6 (Centre for Sensors, Instruments and Systems Development), a research centre of UPC that operates in the field of photonics and optical engineering with the aim of creating value through innovation. He has authored 26 peer-reviewed articles, has presented communications in 64 conferences, has published two book chapters and holds three patents, two of which are licensed to a private company. He has participated in 28 projects (public and privately funded), three of them as PI, with budget of approximately 6M€. His research is primarily focused in visual optics, where, in the last 15 years, he has been working on different topics such as accommodation, refraction, aberrations, optical quality, intraocular lenses, dry eye, instrumentation and colour vision.

ORCID: 0000-0001-5835-4395