MANUEL
CAÑO GARCÍA

I’m a senior researcher at University of Granada (UGR). I’m also teaching as an associate professor in the same university. I received my two master’s degrees (M.Sc. Physics (Licenciatura) and M.Eng. Electronic engineer (Ingeniería superior)) from the University of Granada. After that, I obtained another M.Sc. in nanotechnology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. I gained my PhD degree of photonics (summa cum laude) and the title of international PhD from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) in 2018 within a Spanish official grant (FPI 2014). During the PhD, I did a secondment (4 month) in Center for Microsystems Technology (CMST) Ghent University / Imec (Ghent, Belgium). When I finalized the PhD, I continue one year more at UPM with a Spanish official grant (POP 2018). During this postdoc, I got a UPM grant to do an internship (1 month) in the Sydney Nanoscience Hub (Sydney University) in Sydney, Australia. In 2019, I obtained a MSCA (H2020) within the project PICASSO at International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Braga, Portugal). I got the Beatriz Galindo 2020, that I started in 2021. With this grant, I returned to UPM with the possibility to research and teach all the knowledge that I learned during my career. Due to some misunderstanding with the UPM, I decide to move out and I applied to a MSCA (Horizon Europe) with the project CONCEPT-2D. I got it in 2022 and I am starting my research from 2023-2025. Regarding my research, I have an H-index of 11 with 75 scientific publication (27 research articles (74% in Q1) and more than 20 oral presentations, 2 congress organized & several seminars) and a total number of cites of 150. My research is based in the development of new techniques of nanofabrication (DOI:10.3762/bjnano.9.149) to improve the photonics field. Most of my research is based in two kind of devices organic photonic integrated circuits (PIC) and tunable phase devices, or a combination of both. Regarding the organic PIC was a new research line in two of the three institutions where I was (UPM and INL). Most of the time that you spend in the lab is to adjust the fabrication protocols. Nevertheless, fruitful contributions were made in the fabrication of power splitter (DOI: 10.1364/OE.469281), the generation of ring resonators for quantum experiments (DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.01719) and the integration of light sources in organic PIC (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10145-8). In addition, we generate a software tool for the simulation of photonics devices (DOI: 10.1364/OE.414211). The development of tunable phase devices however was smooth due to the hard development that it was made at CEMDATIC UPM in the last 20 years. There is two main research lines in this group of activities. The firsts, phase devices in photonics were the normal evolution of the research at CEMDATIC. I would like to remark the most accurate 2D bean steerer without moving part (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09201-0), the photonic quantum vortex generator (DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-34041-2) that enables quantum MIMO systems, and the Spiral diffractive devices (DOI: 10.1002/adom.202001199) that is also patented. The others, tunable metasurface antennas beyond 5G communications where we are working in the prove of concept (DOI: 10.1109/ICEAA.2019.8879268), the improving of the velocity (DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3209734 ) and testing materials (DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3226601). The union of the previous described topic give us some unique opportunities. The first organic switching polarizer was published (DOI: 10.1364/OE.26.009584) and patented in collaboration with imec during my PhD internship. The contribution of the MZM in SiN (DOI: 10.3390/cryst9050225) was another success.