Nathaniel P. Hermosa, II

Fields of Interest: Structured light
Academic Group: Photonics Research Group

Dr. Nathaniel Hermosa is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Physics in the University of the Philippines-Diliman Campus.

Dr. Hermosa completed his BS, MS, and PhD Physics degrees at the University of the Philippines-Diliman Campus. He did his Postdoc at the Quantum Optics group of Prof. J.P. Woerdman in Huygens Laboratory in Leiden University, Netherlands from 2009-2011. He was research fellow at the Quantum Engineering of Light group of Prof. J. Torres at the Institut de Ciences Fotoniques in Barcelona, Spain from 2012-2014. His field of specialization is on Optics and Structured Light.

Dr. Hermosa was awarded the National Academy of Science and Technology Outstanding Young Scientist (Physics) in 2017. In the same year, he received the Eduardo A. Quisumbing medal for the Outstanding Research and Development Award for Basic Research during the National Science and Technology Week.