Amalia Martínez García is a Mexican physicist whose research concerns the combination of optics and metrology. She is a researcher in the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica in León, Guanajuato, the former director of the center, and a past president of the Academia Mexicana de Óptica.

Education and career

Martínez studied physics as an undergraduate at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. She earned a master's degree in applied physics at the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (CICESE),[1][2] joining CICESE as a researcher in 1987,[3] and completed a Ph.D. through the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica,[1][2] where she moved in 2002.[3]

She was director of the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica in 2013,[1][2] and president of the Academia Mexicana de Óptica (AMO) for 2015–2016.[1][3] At the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, she continues to head the Optical and Mechanical Testing Lab.[4] She is a Level-III member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.[1][4]

Recognition

Optica named her as a 2024 Optica Fellow, "for significant contributions to 3D optical metrology, student training, and the advancement of science in Mexico and Latin America".[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dra. Amalia Martínez García", Researchers, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, retrieved 2023-11-21
  2. 1 2 3 "Amalia Martinez-Garcia", 2014 SPIE Women in Optics Planner, SPIE, retrieved 2023-11-21
  3. 1 2 3 Dra. Amalia Martínez García, Academia Mexicana de Óptica, retrieved 2023-11-21
  4. 1 2 Greenwood, Hannah (August 2022), "Senior Member Insights: Amalia Martínez-García", Optics & Photonics News, Optica, retrieved 2023-11-21
  5. ↑ Optica Announces 2024 Fellows Class, Optica, 30 October 2023, retrieved 2023-11-21
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