Marie-Curie Fellow: Dr. Katarzyna Krupa

Katarzyna Krupa received Master in Photonics Engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in 2004, and PhD from the University of Besançon (France) and the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in 2009 in the framework of ‘co-tutelle’ international agreement. Her doctoral thesis was focused on development of new methods for MEMS/MOEMS reliability investigation. In 2010 she joined the XLIM Institute, University of Limoges (France), as a post-doctoral researcher in nonlinear optics. In 2016 she moved to the ICB Institute, University of Bourgogne, to work on mode-locked fiber lasers. Since June 2017 she is working at the University of Brescia (Italy) and from November 2017 as a Marie S.-Curie MULTIPLY Fellow. Her research interests deal with experimental study of the spatiotemporal nonlinear dynamics in optical fibers, nonlinear crystals, and fiber lasers. She is co-author of over 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Wabnitz

Stefan Wabnitz obtained the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1982, the MS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1983, and the PhD in Applied Electromagnetism from the Italian Ministry of Education in 1988. He was with the Ugo Bordoni Foundation between 1985 and 1996. In 1996 he became full professor in Physics at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. Between 1999 and 2003 he was with Alcatel Research and Innovation Labs in France and with Xtera Communications in Texas. Since 2007 he is full professor the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia, Italy. His research activities involve nonlinear propagation effects in optical communications and information processing devices. He is the author and co-author of over 700 international refereed papers, conference presentations, and book chapters. He is the Deputy Editor of Elsevier Optical Fiber Technology, a Fellow member of the Optical Society of America, and senior member of IEEE-Photonics Society.

Master student: Graciela Garmendia Castañeda

Graciela Garmendia Castañeda was born in Cusco, Peru, in 1989. She received her Telecommunications Engineer degree in 2011 from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru. She worked more that 4 years in the Network Operation Center from Telefonica as part of the technical support team in charge of the tier-1 submarine optical network SAm-1 which connects United States, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador and Colombia. In 2018, she obtained her M.Sc. degree in Communications Technologies and Multimedia from the Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy; with the thesis “Self-calibrated polarimeter to study nonlinear polarization dynamic in multimode fibers”. As the thesis’ title suggests, her work was focused on the design and implementation of a polarimeter for the study of the polarization in multimode fibers in its operation in the nonlinear regime.