María del Mar Pérez is Full Professor and research at the Department of Optics of the University of Granada (UGR), Spain. She received her PhD degree in Physics at UGR. She is head of the Laboratory of Biomaterials Optics. She has published around 60 papers in JCR scientific journals. Her recent research interests include Optical properties of dental materials, color difference thresholds as well as tissue engineering. Advisor of 10 PhD students (completed thesis) and 2 in progress. Reviewer for many journals in the dentistry field.