**Antonio Alvarez Fernandez-Balbuena**

Dr. Antonio Alvarez Fernandez-Balbuena, in 2011 earned a PhD degree with a thesis about optical systems for natural lighting entitled "Optical systems for concentration, caption and guiding of solar radiation". Since 2000, he has been working in the UCM Faculty of Optics in the Lighting & Color laboratory in the area of applied optics, natural lighting, LED signalization and computer-aided lighting design. During his research, he has been working in national and international projects (Eureka, Cenit). In several projects, he has acted as the principal researcher publishing books, ´ more than 20 indexed papers contributing in the field with 15 patents and more than 50 Congress. Additionally, he is professor at the UCM Optics Department.
