Percival F. Almoro

Academic Group: Photonics Research Laboratory Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (University of the Philippines, 2004)

Fields of Interest: Physics, optics, lasers, holography, speckles, interferometry, phase retrieval, coherent metrology

Dr. Percival F. Almoro is a professor at the National Institute of Physics (NIP), University of the Philippines Diliman. He obtained his PhD Physics degree at the NIP. He carried out postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Applied Optics, Universität Stuttgart, Germany (2005-2006), Risø National Research Laboratory, Kingdom of Denmark (2007-2009), and the Center of Optical Research and Education, University of Utsunomiya, Japan (2014).

Dr. Almoro won in 2005 the DuPont Talent Search of Young Scientist by National Academy for Science and Technology-Philippines. He received in 2014 the Achievement Award in Physics from the National Research Council of the Philippines.

Dr. Almoro is a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is currently a Topical Editor for the OSA Applied Optics journal (2016-2018) in the fields of interferometry. holography and phase retrieval, his main research interests.