The main research and development areas in Applied Optics and Optical Engineering are:

• Design and manufacturing methods for ofthalmic lenses
• Diffractive optics, micro-optics and nano-photonics
• Optical and photonic sensing in industry and biosciences
• Optics and photonics for cultural inheritance conservation
• Optical image processing
• Optical metrology ad surface characterization
• Polarimetry and metasurfaces
• Illumination and signaling
• Visual and ophthalmic optics