He is currently a professor at the Physics Department of Universidad Nacional de Rosario and a chief scientist in the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas of Argentina. He is also the director of Instituto Internacional Franco Argentino de Ciencias de la Informacion y de Sistemas. He has worked as visiting researcher at the National Physical Laboratory, UK, University of Michigan, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, Cambride University, Loughborough University, UK, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Japan and Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Mexico. He has edited two books, authored three book chapters and more than 180 scientific papers published in refereed journals and proceedings of international conferences. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics and Lasers in Engineering, the Journal of Holography and Speckle and Optics & Photonics News. He is a fellow of OSA and a senior member of IEEE. In 2003 the Secretary of Science and Technology of Argentina awarded him the B. Houssay Prize for his contributions in the field of optical engineering. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics and Lasers in Engineering and the Journal of Holography and Speckle. Recently, he was a Topical Editor of Applied Optics and a member of the Editorial Board of Optics & Photonics News.