Virgil-Florin Duma is Professor at the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania, as well as head & founder of the 3OM Group (http://3om-group-optomechatronics.ro/). He received his PhD cum laude in 2001 from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara (UPT), Romania, where he graduated in Fine Mechanics & Optics, valedictorian, in 1991. He was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, NY, USA (2009-2010), where he is Visiting Scientist. He is also Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, as well as Adjunct Professor (PhD Advisor) at UPT. Prof. Duma defended his Habilitation at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, in 2013. He is author of over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals & conferences, 15 books & book chapters, and holds 1 patent. His main research interests are in Optomechatronics & Biomedical Imaging. He is currently PI of a PED and of a Bridge Project, as well as WP Responsible of a POC and a PTE grant of the Romanian Authority for Scientific Research. In the last ten years Prof. Duma has thus secured funds in excess of 2M Euro for his group. He is a member of OSA, a Senior Member of SPIE, and a Life Member of the Fulbright Association.