Jaime Frejlich graduated as a chemical engineer at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay (1973) and earned his PhD in physics/optics at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France, in 1977. He has been a professor at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Física do Laboratório de Óptica in Brazil since 1978. Professor Frejlich has published more than eighty scientific papers in specialized journals. His present research interests are in photorefractive materials, effects, processes, and applications.