José António Ribera Salcedo#

Born on 21-January-1951, in Porto, Portugal
Married, with two children ages 33 (daughter) and 30 (son). Daughter is a Microbiology Ph.D. (Imperial College, London), doing R&D in France; Son is a Computer Science M.Sc. (Imperial College, London) and an animation artist, working in San Francisco, California.

Professional Record

• Founder and CEO, Multiwave Photonics, SA, Maia, Portugal (since September 2003) - http://www.multiwavephotonics.com. Multiwave Photonics develops and sells pulsed fiber lasers for industrial, monitoring and biomedical applications.
• Founder and CEO, Multiwave Networks Inc., Sunnyvale, California, USA, and Managing Director of Multiwave Networks Portugal, Lda., Maia, Portugal (May 2001 - August 2003). Multiwave Networks was focused on exploring the potential of fiber lasers in communications applications.
• Co-Founder and Director of R&D, ENT - Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicações, SA, an industrial telecommunications equipment manufacturer established within the EFACEC Industrial Group, Maia, Portugal (August 1996 - July 2000). The company focused on developing and supplying turn-key integrated fiber optics networks for utilities such as railways, water and electricity distribution companies and highway authorities. The optical networks also included integrated services such as videosurveillance and public information.
• Manager of the Telecommunications Division, EFACEC Electronic Systems (August 1995 - July 1996).
• Executive Director of the National Science and Technology Fund PRAXIS XXI, a 5 year $750M Fund and program established by the Government of Portugal to finance national R&D activities in all scientific areas (February 1994 - February 1995). In this period, set up the program management team, devised and implemented program regulations and procedures and financed activities ranging from attributing graduate fellowships (approximately 1,500 per year during 5 years) to financing scientific projects, infrastructures and events.
• Founder and Director of INESC-Porto’s Optoelectronics Center (1990-1994), focusing on fiber lasers and fiber devices.*Co-Founder and Director of INESC-Porto, a private non-profit R&D Institute in Portugal related to IT (1984-1989)
• Senior Scientist, Applied Optics Division, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1980).

Academic Record

• Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal (August 2000 - March 2002).
• Doctor of Science (Agregação) in Physics, University of Porto, Portugal (Nov. 1994).
• Associate Professor of Physics, University of Porto, Portugal (January 1981 - July 2000).
• Lecturer, Ph.D. Program in Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1980).
• IBM Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University (1979).
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, California, focusing on laser technologies and their application to understanding fast processes in materials, with the thesis “Studies on Energy Transport in Solids: The Picosecond Transient Grating Method” (December 1978). Work carried out under the supervision of Prof. Anthony E. Siegman.
• M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, California (June 1974). Work carried out under the supervision of Prof. Robert L. Byer.
• Graduated in Electrical Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal (June 1973), as best student in class of 100 students.

Awards, Nominations and Fellowships

• 2009 - IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award 2009, “in recognition of outstanding technical and leadership contributions to pulsed fiber lasers, in particular all-fiber ring laser architectures, and of his pioneering efforts aimed at developing, promoting and commercializing this technology in Portugal – and later in international markets.”
• 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea (Physics, Astrophysics and Engineering Section).
• 2006 - Member of SPIE European Advisory Committee and SPIE Symposia Committee.
• 1998 - External Advisor to the European Commission, Research Directorate General, contributing in matters related to industrial innovation policies - EAG 1 -, Brussels, Belgium. On February 2000, organized the workshop “Towards multi-skilled and knowledge intensive tomorrow’s manufacturing enterprise” at the European Commission.
• 1978 - IBM Postodoral Fellow at Stanford University.
• 1973 - Fullbright Fellow for graduate studies in the USA.
• 1973 - NATO Fellow for graduate studies in the USA.

Other Information

• Author or co-author of approximately 90 publications and communications in subjects related to lasers and optical fiber technologies.
• Co-inventor in 5 patents or patent applications awarded by or submitted to the USTPO.
• Led over 30 international R&D projects, 10 of which European.