Amalia Martínez
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Amalia Martínez García is a Mexican physicist whose research concerns the combination of optics and metrology. She is a researcher in the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica in León, Guanajuato, the former director of the center, and a past president of the Academia Mexicana de Óptica.
Martínez studied physics as an undergraduate at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. She earned a master's degree in applied physics at the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (CICESE),[1][2] joined CICESE as a researcher in 1987,[3] and completed a Ph.D. through the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica,[1][2] where she moved in 2002.[3]
She was director of the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica in 2013,[1][2] and president of the Academia Mexicana de Óptica (AMO) for 2015–2016.[1][3] At the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, she continues to head the Optical and Mechanical Testing Lab.[4] She is a Level-III member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.[1][4]