Jaime Frejlich graduated as a chemical engineer at the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay (1973) and earned his PhD in physics/optics at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France, in 1977. He has been a professor at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Fisica do Laboratorio de optica 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.