He has over 34 years experience in photonic devices and systems research and technology transfer. With over 500 Scientific publications and 20 patents he is a Fellow of IEEE and OSA. In 2011 he co-founded VLC Photonics (acquired by Hitachi High technologies in 2020) and in 2019 he co-founded iPronics, programmable Photonics. In 2012 He received the King James I Award in Novel Technologies (the highest Scientific Distinction in Spain) for pioneering contributions in RF- Photonics and in 2020 the National Research award in the field of Engineering. In 2021 he received the IEEE Photonics Society Engineering award for his pioneering work on RF and programmable photonics. In 2016, he received a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant to develop programmable integrated photonic systems for RF-Photonic applications and in 2019 an ERC Proof of Concept Grant to bring the concept of programmable integrated photonics close to market. From 2018 to march 2022 he was Editor in Chief of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics and is a member of the steering Committee of the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC).