Santiago Royo, PhD, is currently professor at UPC and VP of Business Development of Beamagine S.L (2016, Barcelona), a company devoted to the development and commercialization of novel 3D electrooptic vision systems based on lidar imaging. He is cofounder of two more photonics-based spin-off companies: SnellOptics (2002,Terrassa, Spain), devoted to marketing quality plastic optical components; and ObsTech SpA (2012, Santiago, Chile) commercializing systems for internet-controlled telescopes. He holds 17 patents, 11 of them licensed to four different companies, and over 50 refereed publications. He has been Director of the Center for Sensor, Instruments and System Development (CD6), a research and innovation center in Optical Engineering in Greater Barcelona for the last 10 years, and has participated and led research projects involving different optical metrology techniques for the last 20 years. He is also member of the Board of Stakeholders of Photonics21, and co-secretary of the Spanish Platform for Photonics Fotónica21.