The European Photonics Industry Consortium has become the world-largest photonics industry association, with more than 780 members within the last few years.  To address all the needs of its members, EPIC strengthens its team by recruiting Antonio Castelo as photonics technologies program manager.

Antonio has a PhD from the department of applied physics of Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in laser processing of glassy samples. In Madrid, he made a postdoctoral stay at the Instituto de Óptica of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he worked on the fabrication of nanostructures with dielectric and metallic materials via pulsed laser deposition.

In 2010, Antonio entered the world of distribution as a sales engineer in the photonics department of the company Acal BFi, a job that he continued in the Spanish company Grupo Álava since 2012. In the latter, he was responsible for sales and marketing for Spain and Portugal of different laser systems, optical and optomechanical components, optical metrology equipment and other nano-characterization devices.

In 2021 he became US sales manager for the company Fyla, a manufacturer of supercontinuum and ultrafast fiber lasers, for the development of the market in this country and the establishment of new relationships with the most relevant research centers in the world of optics and photonics.

The successor of Dr Francesca Moglia is eager to join the EPIC team and is looking forward to working with EPIC members and being part of the photonic community. In his new capacity, he represented the association at Laser World of Photonics.