Professor Miguel Alonso:

Miguel A. Alonso is a professor at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, since ۲۰۰۳. Currently he is also with the Institut Fresnel and the Ecole Centrale in Marseille, France as part of  A*MIDEX Chair of Excellence program. 
He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has been Associate Editor and Deputy Editor for Optics Express, Chair of Spotlight on Optics, Associate Editor for Optica, and currently serves as the Editor in Chief for Optics Letters.
Professor Alonso’s research is 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.