Prof. Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo

Professor Valeria Rodríguez-Fajardo is a distinguished physicist and lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where she conducts cutting-edge research in optics and photonics. Her work focuses on the science of structured light — including vector and vortex light beams — and its applications in optical metrology, imaging and the manipulation of light’s properties at the nanometric scale. Prof. Rodríguez-Fajardo has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications on topics such as optical angular momentum, nonclassical polarimetry, and advanced light-based measurement techniques, and she has held postdoctoral research positions internationally, advancing both fundamental and applied optical physics.