About the Author: Amalia Martínez-García is a full-time researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, CIO, Mexico. She received her Ph. D. in Optics at CIO and has been a Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Utsunomiya University, and University of the Basilicata. She is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers and the Mexican Academy of Optics (AMO), Optical Society (OSA), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engin eers (SPIE) and International Society of Optomechatronics (ISOM). She was President of the AMO in 2015-2016. Her research interests focus on the field of optical metrology. She has participated in conferences organization, being co-organizer and initiator of the Meeting Participation of the Woman in Science, annual event at Mexico since 2004 to date. She was chair of Fifth International Symposium on Experimental Mechanics & Ninth Symposium on Optics in Industry, 2015, and of International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technology, 2018. She is author of eighty papers in journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports.
Dr. Indrani Bhattacharya is a Postdoctoral researcher associated with Prof. Ayan Banerjee of Light-Matter Interaction Lab, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, IISER, Kolkata and Prof. Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan of School of Optometry, University of Waterloo, Canada. She has completed her B.Sc. with Hons. in Physics and M.Sc.(Tech.) in Applied Physics with specialization in Optics and Opto-electronics from University of Calcutta. She has just completed her Ph.D. in Technology from the Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta. She is having 20 years industry and 9 years academic experience. Her research areas include Diffractive Optics, Biomimetics, Optical Tweezers, Point Spread Function Engineering, In-Vivo and In-Vitro Biomedical Applications, Optical Fibre Sensors. She is a member of Optical Society of India, International Society of Optics and Photonics, International Society of Optomechatronics. She has published 12 research articles which include Conference, Journal, Book and Book Chapter publications during her 9 years academic and research career.
Prof. Yukitoshi Otani is Professor in the Department of Optical Engineering, Utsunomiya University. He has completed his B.S. and M.S. from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology; Ph.D. from the Department of Precision Engineering, University of Tokyo. He has more than 25 years of academic and research experience. His fields of specialization are polarization science and engineering, optical measurement for surface topography and optomechatronics. He was selected as Fellow in 2010 by the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Prof. Dr. Rainer Tutsch is Professor in TU Braunschweig, Institut für Produktionsmesstechnik, Braunschweig. His main field of research is optical techniques for 3D measurement of shape and deformation, with applications in quality assurance, material research, reverse engineering, etc; development and application of multisensor coordinate measuring machines and techniques of sensor and data fusion; micro-metrology with techniques like microscopy, white-light interferometry, laser-interferometry and scanning electron microscopy; Acoustic holography and industrial applications of spectroscopic techniques. He has published many papers in these areas. He is an active member of two workgroups for standardization: Fundamentals of Metrology and Optical 3D Metrology. He is editorial board member of several international conferences. He is also board member of the International Journal of Optomechatronics and official reviewer of Measurement.
