AICOPL2027 | Optics Conference | Photonics | Lasers | Athens | Greece

Prof. Rui Chen

University of Macau, China

Title: Core-Crown CdSe Nanoplatelets: from Property Tailoring to Optoelectronic Applications

Dr. Chen holds dual PhD degrees from Xiamen University (Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics) and Nanyang Technological University (Physics and Applied Physics). His research focuses on semiconductor optics, defect engineering for optical synapses, quantum light sources, and microlasers. Prior to joining the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME) at the University of Macau as an Associate Professor, he was a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. He has received several prestigious honors, including the Thousand Talents Program for Young Professionals (2014) and the Excellent Research Award for Young Scholars (2017), along with multiple teaching awards such as Excellent Teacher of the Year (2019) and Most Popular Instructor (2024). Dr. Chen has published over 200 papers in leading journals such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and Nano Letters, with more than 13,000 citations and an h-index of 66. He is also actively engaged in academic service, serving as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for several journals, including Scientific Reports (Springer Nature), VIEW (Wiley), and Chip (Elsevier).

Prof. Wolfgang Osten

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Title: To be confirmed

Wolfgang Osten received the MSc/Diploma in Physics from the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena in 1979. From 1979 to 1984 he was a member of the Institute of Mechanics in Berlin working in the field of experimental stress analysis and optical metrology. In 1983 he received the PhD degree from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg for his thesis in the field of holographic interferometry. From 1984 to 1991 he was employed at the Central Institute of Cybernetics and Information Processes ZKI in Berlin making investigations in digital image processing and machine vision. Between 1988 and 1991 he was heading the Institute for Digital Image Processing at the ZKI. In 1991 he joined the Bremen Institute of Applied Beam Technology (BIAS) to establish and to direct the Department Optical 3D Metrology till 2002. From September 2002 till October 2018 he has been a full professor at the University of Stuttgart and director of the Institute for Applied Optics. From 2006 till 2010 he was the vice rector for research and technology transfer of the Stuttgart University. His research work is focused on new concepts for industrial inspection and metrology by combining modern principles of optical metrology, sensor technology and digital image processing. Special attention is directed to the development of resolution enhanced technologies for the investigation of micro and nano structures. Wolfgang Osten is fellow of OSA, SPIE, EOS, SEM, IAAM, and senior member of IEEE. He is a Honorary Professor of the Shenzhen University, China, a Honorary Doctor of the University of Technology of Ilmenau, Germany, the 2011 recipient of the Dennis Gabor Award of the The International Society for Optics and Photonics SPIE, the 2018 recipient of the Rudolf Kingslake Medal of the SPIE, the 2019 recipient of the Chandra Vikram Award of the SP

Prof. Robert Hadfield

University of Glasgow, UK

Title: Superconducting single-photon detectors - progress and opportunities

Robert Hadfield is Professor of Photonics in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Robert received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2003. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado from 2003 to 2007. He returned to the UK as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in 2007, establishing his research group at Heriot-Watt University, before joining the University of Glasgow in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Optica and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was awarded the 2019 James Joule Medal of the Institute of Physics for his outstanding work in Applied Physics.

Prof. Alina Karabchevsky

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Title: To be confirmed

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Dr. Jegadesan Subbiah

University of Melbourne, Australia

Title: Eco-friendly perovskite materials for renewable energy conversion and storage devices

Dr Jegadesan Subbiah received his PhD in Materials Chemistry from the National University of Singapore in 2007. After his postdoctoral research at NUS Singapore and the University of Florida, USA, he joined the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2011 and continued his research. His research interests include organic and perovskite solar cells, Device physics of thin-film photovoltaics, Nanomaterials, Renewable energy conversion and storage, solar-rechargeable batteries, and interface engineering of organic semiconductors and electrodes. Dr Jegadesan has made a significant impact in his field, with >120 peer-reviewed journal publications and an h-index of 42. He serves as an Editorial Board member for various scientific journals, including Scientific Reports (Nature Springer), the International Journal of Photoenergy, the Interdisciplinary Journal of Chemistry, and the Solid and Open Journal of Organic Polymer Materials. He is also a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), American Chemical Society, USA, the Materials Research Society (MRS), USA, and the Melbourne University Chemical Society (MUCS), Australia.

Prof. Yu-Lung Lo

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan

Title: To be confirmed

Yu-Lung Lo received his B.S. degree from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He has been a faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at NCKU since 1996, where he is now a University Chair professor and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering/Academy of Innovative Semiconductor and Sustainable Manufacturing. He was the Director of the Instrument Development Center and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NCKU. He was also a visiting scientist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Dr. Lo received the ASE Chair Professor and Micron Technology Chair Professor in 2024; the Research Excellence Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Taiwan, 2018/2021; Fellow of the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) in Taiwan 2019; Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) in USA 2018; and ASE Scholar in Research Excellence in Taiwan 2017. Also, he received the Outstanding Professor Award from the CSME in Taiwan in 2013, the First-Class Research Award from the National Science Council (NSC) in 2005/2006, and the Dr. Ta-You Wu Award for Young Researchers from the NSC in 2002.

He was invited to serve as a keynote and plenary speaker at international conferences on optics and 3D additive manufacturing, and he also organized and chaired sections of these conferences, especially as General Chair of the International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technology in 2017. Now, he is the Chairman of the Asian Society of Experimental Mechanics (ASEM) and an Executive Council member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Taiwan Section.

His research interests include biophotonics, 3D additive manufacturing, laser machining, and 3D System-in-Package (SiP) technologies. He has authored over 190 journal publications and has filed for several patents. One of his articles was included in the 2015 Spotlight on Optics by OSA. He is included in the Analysis of Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists (Career Impact) (1960 - 2023) and Top 2% Scientists in 2021/2022/2023. Also, he is on the list of Top Scholars and Highly Ranked Scholars at Sensor from ScholarGPS.

Prof. Greg Sun

University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Title: SiGeSn/GeSn Group-IV Photonics

Following receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1993, Greg Sun joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he is currently a professor of Electrical Engineering. He led the effort in establishing the first publicly supported Engineering Program in the City of Boston, serving as the founding Chair of the Engineering Department at UMass Boston from 2014 to 2023. His research interests are in semiconductor optoelectronics, silicon photonics, and nano-plasmonics. He is a fellow of Optica, formally Optical Society of America and of American Physical Society (APS). He currently serves as a deputy editor for Journal of Lightwave Technology.

Prof. Ettore Bernardi

Italian National Metrology Institute - INRIM, Italy

Title: Quantum Sensing with Color Centers in Diamond

Ettore Bernardi earned his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Pavia. He has been with INRIM (the Italian National Metrology Institute) since 2018 and has held a permanent scientist position since 2020. His primary research interests include quantum sensing, quantum thermodynamics, and quantum computation. In recent years, his work has focused on the application of color centers in diamond as quantum sensors.

Prof. Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Title: To be confirmed.

Will update soon.

Prof. Luca Poletto

CNR-Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, Italy

Title: RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ON GAS MIXTURES: APPLICATIONS TO ENERGY AND AGRIFOOD

Luca Poletto is Research Director at CNR-Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (CNR-IFN) and Head of the Division of Padova of CNR-IFN.

His main scientific interests are the design and realization of spectrometers and monochromators for the extreme-ultraviolet and soft X-ray spectral regions for laboratory and space applications; the generation and applications of ultrashort femtosecond and attosecond pulses in the extreme ultraviolet; the development of instrumentation for free-electron laser radiation; the applications of techniques related to applied optics, mainly laser spectroscopy for gas detection applied to energy and agrifood.

He has been responsible of the optical design and realization of instrumentation for photon handling of ultrafast pulses that are presently in operations with high-order laser harmonics or free-electron lasers. Presently, he is participating to several projects funded by national and international institutions in the field of ultrafast optics for femtosecond and attosecond pulses in collaboration with Politecnico Milano (Italy), ELETTRA Synchrotron (Italy), DESY Synchrotron (Germany), Chinese Academy of Science (China), Freiburg University (Germany), National Institute for Scientific Research (Canada).

He has been the coordinator for CNR-IFN participation in four PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) projects: the I-PHOQS Infrastructure on technologies for ultrafast and ultraintense beams; the AGRITECH National Centre on photonic applied to agrifood; the NEST Extended Network on photonic technologies applied to energy transition; the iNEST Regional Consortium on technologies for smart manufacturing.

He was also the coordinator of the EU H2020 ATTRACT2 PiPe4.0 project for the in-situ monitoring in the distribution gas network, 2022-2025.

He is author and co-author of about 250 papers on international peer-reviewed journals. Among them, papers on Science, Nature Photonics and Nature Physics, having more than 19000 citations and H-index = 59 (Google Scholar, June 2026). He is also author of four patents in the field of laser technology.

Prof. Mable Fok

University of Georgia, USA

Title: To be confirmed.

Dr. Mable Fok is currently a Professor and the Assistant Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the College of Engineering at University of Georgia. She received her B.Eng., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She finished her postdoctoral training at Princeton University in physical layer network security, hybrid analog/digital optical signal processing, and neuromorphic processing prior to joining University of Georgia. She is the Director of the Photonics and Soft Robotics Lab (WAVE Lab). Her research aims to bring fiber optics and photonics techniques to inter-disciplinary areas. Her research spans photonic signal processing, bio-inspired photonics, fiber optic sensing, microwave photonics, and bio-inspired soft robotic systems. She is internationally recognized for her interdisciplinary work that integrates photonics technologies into emerging applications such as environmental monitoring, biomedical systems, and intelligent robotics.

She has published over 200 journal and international conference papers and hold five US patents. Her research has been supported by major funding agencies including the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. She is a Fellow of OPTICA. She served as the Associate Editor for journals including Optics Letters and the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. Dr. Fok has served on technical program committees and as the technical co-chair for leading international conferences such as the Optical Fiber Communication Conference, IEEE Photonics Society Conference, and IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics. Dr. Fok is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, University of Georgia Creative Research Medal, Excellence in Research Faculty Award, Research Mentoring Award, and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.

Dr. Chen Di-Chao

Nanjing Normal University, China

Title: Spin-Orbit Angular Momentum Conversion in Coupled Nonparaxial Bessel vortex beams

Chen Di-Chao, Associate Professor at the School of Physical Sciences and Technology, Nanjing Normal University of China, is selected for the Jiangsu Provincial Association for Science and Technology’s Young Scientific and Technological Talent Support Programme. Awarded a PhD from Nanjing Normal University in 2021; undertook postdoctoral research at Nanjing University of China from September 2022 to September 2025, focusing primarily on artificial acoustic structures, ultrasonic wavefront control and acoustic manipulation of microparticles. He has published over 20 papers in journals such as Adv. Sci., SCIENCE CHINA, Commun. Phys., Appl. Phys. Lett. and Phys. Rev. Appl. He has led one Youth Project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one General Programme for Basic Research in Jiangsu Province, one General Programme for Basic Scientific Research in Jiangsu Province’s Higher Education Institutions, and one Open Project at a Key Laboratory under the Ministry of Education. In addition, he has participated in three General Programmes funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Dr. Byoung-Ho Lee

South Korea

Title: To be confirmed

Byoung-Ho Lee, Ph.D., is a distinguished expert in semiconductor metrology and technology. Currently serving as a Senior Fellow at Park Systems, he has built an impressive career over two decades. Prior to his current role, he was a Senior Fellow at Hitachi High-Tech, a Fellow at SK hynix, Director of Integrated Metrology at Nanometrics, and VP of Technologist at Ultratech. His early career began as a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics. Dr. Lee earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from KAIST in 2000 and has been actively involved in advancing semiconductor metrology. He has contributed to numerous technical committees, including SPIE Metrology, Inspection, and Process Control Program Committee (since 2006), SEMI ASMC (2012–2017), and USA MAPT 2.0 Metrology Committee (since 2024). His leadership extends to forums such as Semicon Korea MI and the Korean International Semiconductor Conference on Manufacturing Technology. With 40+ published papers and 11+ granted patents, Dr. Lee continues to influence semiconductor manufacturing with his expertise and innovation. His extensive research and contributions make him a key figure in the industry.

Prof. Boris Mizaikoff

Ulm University, Germany

Title: Quantum Cascade Lasers in Biomedical DIagnostics

Dr. Boris Mizaikoff is a Chaired Professor and Director of the Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry @ Ulm University (Germany) with prior appointments at the Vienna University of Technology (Austria) and at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). His research interests focus on photonic sensors, biosensors, and biomimetic sensors in the mid-infrared spectral range, system miniaturization and integration based on micro- and nanofabrication, multifunctional (nano)analytical platforms, development of biomolecular/biomimetic molecular recognition architectures, multivariate data evaluation, and applications in environmental analysis, process analysis, and biomedical/clinical diagnostics. He is (co)author of 500+ peer-reviewed publications and 22 patents.

Prof. Alejandro R. Goñi

ICMAB-CSIC, Spain

Title: Recent Developments & Breakthroughs in Organic RAINBOW Solar Cells

I graduated in physics in 1985 at the Balseiro Institute, Argentina. In 1989 I finished my PhD at the Max-Planck Institute FKF in Stuttgart with Prof. M. Cardona. It followed a two-years postdoc at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, USA, and back at MPI-FKF Stuttgart for three years. In 1996 I moved to the Technical University of Berlin for an appointment as Research & Teaching Associate, where in 1998 I completed my Habilitation. In 1999 I received the Karl-Scheel Prize from the Physical Society of Berlin for my contributions to the field of high-pressure semiconductor physics. In November 2003, I joined ICMAB-CSIC as ICREA Research Prof., co-founding the Optoelectronic Properties of Nanostructured Materials (NANOPTO) group. I lead group activities on high-pressure physics, metal-halide perovskites, and the development of novel light-source concepts.

Prof. Adonis Bogris

University of West Attica, Greece

Title: Microwave Frequency Fiber Interferometry in Subsea Cables for Deep-Ocean Geophysical Monitoring.

Adonis Bogris is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering at the University of West Attica, Greece. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles published in international scientific journals and conference proceedings and he has participated in numerous EU and national research projects as a senior researcher or principal investigator. His current research interests include high-speed optical transmission systems and networks, neuromorphic photonics, quantum photonics, physical layer security and fibre-optics sensing. Dr. Bogris serves as an associate editor of IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology and is a fellow member of Optica.

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