DIOS FERNANDEZ, CRISTINA DE

Dr. Cristina de Dios Fernández is an Associate Professor at Carlos III University of Madrid, affiliated with the School of Engineering and the Department of Electronic Technology. She leads the research group Sensors and Instrumentation Techniques (SIT) and holds an ORCID iD 0000-0001-5474-7407.

Research Interests span Photonics, Terahertz Technologies, Optical Frequency Combs, Quantum Sensing, Biomedical Optics, and Integrated Photonics. Her work focuses on

• Developing compact confocal microscopes for nitrogen-vacancy centers
• Advancing dual-comb spectroscopy for biomedical and industrial applications
• Optimizing VCSEL-based optical frequency combs
• Designing photonic chips for THz dual-comb spectrometers

Projects & Grants include principal investigator roles in initiatives like Cátedra Universidad-Empresa EPIQ (2024-2027) and HYPERTERA (2019-2020), alongside researcher roles in EU-funded programs such as OILTEBIA (2013-2017) and CELTA (2016-2020).

Patents include Hyperspectral Imaging based on Dual Frequency Comb (2022), and she supervised the thesis VCSEL-based Optical Frequency Comb Generation, Expansion and Optimization (2016).