Marcelo Soto

Marcelo A. Soto received the Ph.D. degree in Innovative Technologies of ICT Engineering, with a major in Optical Communications, from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2011. During 2010–2011, he was a Research Fellow at Scuola Sant’Anna, where he worked on distributed optical fiber sensors based on Raman and Brillouin scattering. Later, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he worked on high-performance Brillouin and Rayleigh distributed fiber sensing, nonlinear fiber optics, optical signal processing, and optical Nyquist pulse generation. In 2018, he joined Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. He also had an invited position as one of the “100 distinguished invited professors” at Guangzhou University, in China, from 2018 to 2021. Dr. Soto has served as a TPC member of several international conferences since 2015. He is author or coauthor of over 220 scientific publications in international refereed journals and conferences, 3 book chapters and 9 patents in the fields of optical communications and optical fiber sensing.

For JLT he is handling submissions on the following topics:

• Distributed fiber sensing

• Signal processing for distributed sensing