Dr. Percival Flavier Almoro is a professor at the National Institute of Physics (NIP), University of the Philippines Diliman. He researched on holograms, phase retrieval, and optical metrology during his postdoc fellowship stints at the University of Utsunomiya, Japan in 2014, Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark in 2008-2009, and at the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2006. Dr. Almoro is a Member of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas, National Research Council of the Philippines, Philippine-American Academy of Science & Engineering, and a Senior Member of Optica (Optical Society of America). He was appointed Topical Editor in the Optica journal Applied Optics and currently as Section Editor for the Elsevier journal Optik. Dr. Almoro has served as the Coordinator of the NIP Photonics Research Group and the General Education Committee. He promotes active learning, inter-disciplinary collaboration, and internationalization. For extension and public service, he advocates innovation partnerships including conducting outreach workshops in photonics and fostering sustainable research through group mentoring.
