Muriel Botey is a Ph.D. student at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in the Applied and Nuclear Physics Department. She has been a researcher of the Nonlinear Optics and Lasers Group of the same University since 1999 under the supervision of Dr. Jordi Martorell, currently at the Institut de Ci?ncies Fot?niques- ICFO. She completed her Master of Science Degree in Physics at the University of Barcelona. She has also worked as a teaching assistant in the Optics School (UPC), in the Terrassa School of Engineering (UPC) and she currently has a permanent teaching position at the Barcelona Technical School of Engineering of the UPC. Her research work is on nonlinear optics as well as on theoretical and experimental studies of 3-D photonic crystals. She has of 4 publications in refereed journals, and is co-author of 2 book chapters and 15 conference proceedings.