Lidia Galdino

Dr Lidia Galdino received M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degree in optical communications from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. From 2013 to 2018 she held a Postdoctoral position in the Optical Networks Group at University College London (UCL). She is currently a Lecturer and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at UCL. Her main research interests include the performance analysis and design of high-capacity ultra-wideband optical transmission systems. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals and conferences. She has served on the program committee of several international conferences, including the IEEE Photonics Society’s Annual Meeting (IPC), the Advanced Photonics Conference (NETWORKS meeting), the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), and the Optical Fiber Communication conference (OFC). She served as Associate Vice President of IEEE’s Women in Photonic (2018-2020) and has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society (2021-2023). Dr Galdino was a co-recipient of the RAEng Colin Campbell Mitchell Award in 2015 for pioneering contributions to optical communications technology and was named as one of the 2017 “Top 50 Women in Engineering under 35” by The Telegraph and Women in Engineering Society which features the U.K.’s top rising female stars of engineering.

For JLT she is handling submissions on the following topics:

• Optical transmission systems design, technologies, modelling and experiments
• High symbol rate and multi-carrier signal generation
• Optical amplifier design and technologies