Lluis Torner received his PhD at the
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in 1989 after completing a five-year degree in physics at the
Autonomous University of Barcelona, both in Spain. Subsequently, he enjoyed post-doctoral appointments at
CREOL of the University of Central Florida. He has been Full Professor at
Barcelona Tech since the year 2000. He works in
nonlinear optics and its applications, with emphasis on
optical solitons. His most cited research contributions are in the areas of light guiding and trapping, optical solitons, light's orbital angular momentum, and twisted photons. Torner has been elevated to Fellow of the
European Physical Society, the
European Optical Society and the
Optical Society of America (currently Optica). He is also a member of the
Reial Academia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona (RACAB), the
Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC) and the
Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de España (RAC). ==Awards==