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] joining 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]
Optica named her as a 2024 Optica Fellow, "for significant contributions to 3D optical metrology, student training, and the advancement of science in Mexico and Latin America". [5]