C. Molardi is currently a post-doc scholar at Nazarbayev university, School of Engineering. From May 2016 t0 August 2017 he covered a post-doctoral position in the Information Engineering Department of University of Parma. In March 2016, he received his Ph.D. in Information Technologies from the same university. During his PhD he worked with the Group of Applied Electro-Magnetics (GAEM), under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Selleri. Part of his Ph.D period was spent in Singapore, from January 2013 to December 2015, as a research assistant in collaboration with SIMTech (Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology) - A*STAR, under ARAP scholarship. In March 2011, he received a master degree in Telecommunication Engineering from University of Parma, working on numerical methods for optics and electromagnetism. His research interests include, fiber sensors, micro-structured fiber design, fiber lasers, Near- and Mid-IR optics, numerical methods for optics and electromagnetism.