Claudio N. Ramírez holds a PhD degree in Optical Sciences from Centro de Investigaciones en Optica in Leon, Mexico. His research work was Design and Implementation of a Vectorial Shearing Interferometer with adjustable sensitivity. In 2012 and 2013 he worked as visiting lecturer in Physics department in Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. In the optics group, he evolved a polarimetric method to describe the phase retardance as a function of applied voltage in spatial light modulators based in liquid crystal. Later he designs a point diffraction interferometer using a liquid crystal monopixel. From 2014 to 2016, he made a postdoctoral stay in the optics group at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. His research work was based on the application of spatial light modulators to study wavefronts from aspherical surfaces. He designed and build a common path interferometer based on double sideband filter, to perform wave front reconstruction.

Currently, he is in the National System of Researchers (SNI I).

Since 2017, he is a Research Associate in the Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology (ICAT) at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He teaches Optics, waves and optics, and Optics Laboratory at the Faculty of Sciences in UNAM.

• Optical instrumentation.

• Interferometry.

• Polarimetry.

• Optical testing.

• Interferometric evaluation of aspherical and free-form surfaces using spatial light modulators.
• Polarimetric microscope for the analysis of semi-transparent specimens immersed in water.
• Instrumentation and application of optical polarimetry.

• Teaching undergraduate courses: Optics, Waves and Optics, Optics laboratory.

• Teaching graduate courses: Optical testing, Research work.

• C. Ramirez, N. C. Bruce, J. M. López-Tellez, O. G. Rodríguez-Herrera, “Measurement of retardance variations over the apertures of liquid-crystal variable retarders,” SPIE Proc. 11487, (2020), SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, Online, August 2020, pp. 114871O-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2568645
• H. Zhang, A. Lizana, A. Van Eeckhout, A. Turpin, C. Ramirez, C. Iemmi, and J. Campos “Microparticle manipulation and imaging through a self-calibrated Liquid Crystal on Silicon Display,” Appl. Sci. 8(11), (2018), 2310, doi:10.3390/app8112310
• Lizana, H. Zhang, A. Turpin, A. Van Eeckhout, F. A. Torres-Ruiz, A. Vargas, C. Ramirez, F. Pi, and J. Campos, “Generation of reconfigurable optical traps for microparticles spatial manipulation through dynamic split lens inspired light structures,” Scientific Reports 8, (2018), 11263, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29540-1
• Lizana, A. Vargas, A. Turpin, C. Ramirez, I. Estevez, and J. Campos, “Shaping light with split lens configurations,” J. Opt. 18(10), (2016), 105605, DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/18/10/105605
• C. Ramirez, A. Lizana, C. Iemmi, and J. Campos, “Method based on the double sideband technique for the dynamic tracking of micrometric particles,” J. Opt. 18(6), 065603 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/18/6/065603
• Lizana, I. Estevez, Alex Turpin, C. Ramirez, A. Peinado, and J. Campos, “Implementation and performance of an in-line incomplete Stokes polarimeter based on a single biaxial crystal,” App. Opt. 54(29), 8758 – 8765 (2015). http://doi.org/10.1364/AO.54.008758
• C. Ramirez, A. Lizana, C. Iemmi, and J. Campos, “Inline digital holographic movie based on a double-sideband filter,” Opt. Lett. 40(17), 4142-4145 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.004142
• C. Iemmi, C. Ramirez, and J. Campos, “Digital holographic movie by using a point diffraction interferometer”, Opt. Eng. 54(4), 0441041-5 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.4.044104
• C. Ramirez, E. Oton, C. Iemmi, I. Moreno, N. Bennis, J.M. Oton, J. Campos, “Point diffraction interferometer with a liquid crystal monopixel,” Opt. Exp. 21(7), 8116-8125 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.008116
• C. Ramirez, B. Karakus, A. Lizana, J. Campos, “Polarimetric method for liquid crystal displays characterization in presence of phase fluctuations,” Opt. Exp. 21(3), 3182-3192 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.003182

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