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S. Pascual is a leading astronomical instrumentation scientist whose work has been pivotal in equipping the 10.4-meter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) with its most powerful observational tools. His primary research focus is the development of cutting-edge near-infrared and optical spectrographs, enabling transformative studies in astrophysics. Pascual’s major contributions include his central role in the design, construction, and verification of EMIR, a near-infrared camera and multi-object spectrograph that provides crucial spectral coverage from 0.9 to 2.5 µm over a wide field of view. His work on EMIR, detailed in a highly cited 2022 paper (25 citations), has delivered a common-user instrument that is now a workhorse for the GTC community. Pascual was also instrumental in defining MEGARA, the future optical integral field unit (IFU) and multi-object spectrograph for GTC, as outlined in his 2012 paper (23 citations). His rigorous verification efforts, documented in a 2014 study (8 citations), ensured EMIR’s successful commissioning and operational excellence. Through these achievements, Pascual has directly shaped the observational capabilities of one of the world’s largest telescopes, empowering researchers to probe galaxy evolution, star formation, and the distant universe with unprecedented sensitivity.