Department: Óptica

Faculty: Óptica y Optometría

Area: Optics

Research group: AOCG Grupo Complutense de Óptica Aplicada / Applied Optics Complutense Group

Email: dvazquez@ucm.es

Doctor by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with the thesis Dispositivos ópticos e iluminación natural de utilización en arquitectura 1995. Supervised by Dr. Eusebio Bernabeu Martínez.

Daniel Vázquez is Professor in the Optics department of Universidad Complutense of Madrid since 1988. He received a Ph. D. in architecture by Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. He works in developing lighting systems applied to several fields: natural lighting devices, signalling, LED panels, LED lighting devices and solar energy. His areas of interest include color perception and lighting systems applied to cultural heritage. Lately works include Portico de la Gloria gate in Santiago de Compostela, Guernica picture in Reina Sofía museum and Altamira cave in Cantabria. He is manager of Color and lighting team of the Applied Optics Complutense Group (http://portal.ucm.es/web/iluminacionycolor/inicio). This group has worked in lighting technology topics with many industrial companies as Philips, Telvent, Sainco, Abengoa, LLEDO, Valeo lighting between others.