Miguel A. Alonso

Miguel A. Alonso received the degree of Engineer in Physics from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and the PhD degree in Optics from the University of Rochester.

He joined the faculty of The Institute of Optics in 2003, and since 2018 he has been based at the Institut Fresnel and the Ecole Centrale in Marseille, France, as an A*MIDEX Chair of Excellence. Since January he serves as the Editor in Chief for Optics Letters.

He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

His research focuses on mathematical aspects of wave propagation, in particular on the description and applications of beams with structured intensity and polarization distributions, optical coherence, and the connection between the ray and wave models of light.