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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 31, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jun 28, 2026

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Dieter Bimberg
CIOMP of CAS, Changchun and TU Berlin, Germany
Title: To be confirmed.
Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he was appointed as executive director of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, a Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, Vice-President of the International Artificial Intelligence Association and a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. He is recipient of many important international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Oyo Buturi and MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG (the highest German physics award), to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St. Petersburg Alferov University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 69,000 and his Hirsch factor is 115 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructure based photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.
Prof. Ibrahim Abdulhalim
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Tunable Photonic Metamaterials for Imaging, Sensing, and Energy Saving
Ibrahim Abdulhalim studied Physics at the Technion, where he received his D.Sc. in 1988. He has been a Professor in the Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics Engineering at Ben-Gurion University since October 2005 and served as Head of the Department from 2007 to 2015. Before this position, he held research and professional roles in both academia and industry, including at the Optical Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton, the Thin Films Centre at the University of the West of Scotland, as well as companies such as KLA-Tencor, Nova Measuring Instruments, and GWS Photonics. His current research focuses on liquid crystal (LC) devices for photonic applications, energy-saving optoelectronic devices, nanophotonics and plasmonics for biosensing, and biomedical optical imaging techniques. Prof. Abdulhalim has published over 300 scientific articles, co-authored two books and 12 book chapters, and holds more than 25 granted patents. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP) and SPIE, and a Senior Member of OPTICA. He has served as Associate Editor for the SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics and the Journal of Imaging, and currently serves as Topical Editor for Applied Optics and Associate Editor for the journals Biosensors and Sensors. He has also founded two startup companies: Photonicsys, specializing in miniature photonic sensing instruments, and Photoliqsys, focusing on liquid crystal devices and their integration into systems.
Prof. Boris N. Chichkov
University of Hannover, Germany
Title: Photonic approach to quantum wave mechanics of particles
Professor at the Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics, Hannover, Germany.
He graduated with honors and received PhD in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1981. He started his scientific carrier at P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and later worked in many research centers worldwide. At present, he is Professor of Physics at Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Quantum Optics and Chair of Nanoengineering. In 2024 he received the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics.
Scientific areas: laser physics and laser applications, nanoengineering, additive manufacturing technologies, quantum and nonlinear optics, nano- and biophotonics, biomedical implants and devices, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Prof. Ze Xiang Shen
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Title: To be confirmed.
Dr. Ze Xiang Shen is Fellow of Singapore National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is Professor of Physics, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Co-Director, Centre for Disruptive Photonics Technologies. He is also Associate Dean, Graduate College, Nanyang Technological University.

His research involves the study of graphene, 2D materials and Perovskites using ultra-Low wavenumber Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence and time-resolved spectroscopy in combination with high pressure and low temperature. He also works on applications of graphene-based composites, such as energy storage, 3D printing, building materials, environmental protection, and enforced materials and structures.

He is winner of NTU Nanyang Award for Research and Innovation, Gold Medal for Research Excellence by Institute of Physics Singapore. He was awarded Outstanding Immigrant Award in 2019. He is a Global Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
Prof. Halina Abramczyk
Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Title: To be confirmed.
She's a full professor at the Lodz University of Technology, founder and director (1992-2023) of the Laboratory of Laser Molecular Spectroscopy. Her research focuses on developing diagnostic methods for early cancer detection using Raman spectroscopy, Raman molecular imaging, and femtosecond laser spectroscopy.

Some of her notable achievements include

• Awards and Honors:
o Fulbright Award
o Marie Curie Chair at Max Born Institute, Berlin
o President of the Polish Fulbright Alumni Association (2013-2021)
o Featured in various international scientific communities
• Research and Publications:
o Over 240 publications, including 140 JCR scientific articles
o Authored books like "Introduction to Laser Spectroscopy"
o Published papers on molecular spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, and biomedical diagnostics
• Professional Affiliations:
o Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Molecular Liquids (1992-present)
o Board member, European Molecular Liquids Group (1992-2015)
o Member, Scientific Reports (Nature) editorial board (2018-present)

Professor Abramczyk has delivered numerous plenary and invited lectures globally and has collaborated with various international institutions, including the Max Born Institute , Cambridge University, the University of Arizona. Her work has significantly contributed to the development of cancer research.
Prof. Huabei Jiang
University of South Florida, USA
Title: Optical Wave Tomography (OWT) and Its Biomedical Applications
Dr. Huabei Jiang started his career as an Assistant Professor at Clemson University in 1997, and became a full Professor there in 2003. He then joined University of Florida (UF) in 2005 as a founding senior faculty of then newly established biomedical engineering department and became the J. Crayton Pruitt Family endowed professor in 2008 at UF. Dr. Jiang joined University of South Florida (USF) in 2017 as the founding faculty of medical engineering department and the founding Director of USF Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. In his career, Professor Jiang has used optics in highly innovative ways to make pioneering and seminal contributions to several fields including diffuse optical tomography (DOT), photoacoustic tomography (PAT), fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT), and bioluminescence tomography (BLT). He has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles, and is the author of four noteworthy books, all of which were the first books in their respective fields: Diffuse Optical Tomography: Principles and Applications (CRC Press, 2010), Photoacoustic Tomography (CRC Press, 2014), Thermoacoustic Tomography (IOP Publishing, 2020) and Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (Springer, 2022). Professor Jiang was elected as Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in 2008, Fellow of International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) in 2007, and Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA/OPTICA) in 2006. Outside of his research/teaching, Huabei enjoys practicing Chinese Calligraphy and paintings (ink/color pencil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, and oil). He had two one-person exhibitions of his artworks in July 2019 and August 2023, respectively, in Chengdu, China, and has won multiple awards in several international art competitions since 2021.
Prof. Wolfgang Freude
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Title: The Future of Wireless THz Communications
Wolfgang Freude is a Professor with the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics and Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He has authored and coauthored more than 340 publications, coauthored a book entitled Optical Communications (in German), and authored or coauthored nine book chapters. His research interests include the areas of optical Tbit/s data transmission, wireless high-data rate transmission at THz carrier frequencies, and high-density integrated-optics with a focus on silicon photonics. He is an Honorary Doctor with Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics, Kharkov, Ukraine, a Member of VDE/ITG and OPTICA, and a Life Senior Member, IEEE. Among other engagements, he was the General Chair of the committee “Photonic Networks and Devices” in the framework of the OPTICA (formerly OSA) Advanced Photonics Congress in 2022. He is an editorial board Member for the Springer Nature Journal Light: Science & Applications.
Prof. Wolfgang Kautek
Austria
Title: Laser Applications in Cultural Heritage Science
Wolfgang Kautek holds academic degrees from the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna, Austria), and from the Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany). He served as a research scientist at the University of Kentucky (USA), at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society (Berlin, Germany), at the Simon-Fraser-University, Department of Physics (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), at the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory (San, Jose, California, USA), and the Siemens Research Center (Erlangen, Germany) from 1976 to 1987. 1988 he became head of the Laboratory for Thin Film Technology of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Berlin, Germany) and Adjunct Professor at the Free University Berlin. 2004 he was appointed full-professor for physical chemistry at the University of Vienna (Austria). 2017 he served as Russell Severance Springer Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. Wolfgang Kautek conducts research in laser processing of interfaces and in cultural heritage science. More than 300 scientific publications and 4 patents were authored by him.
Prof. Fumio Koyama
Title: To be confirmed
Fumio Koyama received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physical electronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 2023, he has been Professor Emeritus, Head of the Surface Emitting Laser Photonics Research Unit at the same institute (presently Institute of Science Tokyo). His research interest includes high-speed VCSEL photonics, photonic integrated devices, 3D optical sensing and LiDAR. For more than 40 years, Fumio Koyama has been one of leading researchers whose work contributed to VCSEL photonics and single-mode lasers for broadband optical communications. He received various awards, including the IEE Electronics Letters Premium in 1985 and in 1988, the 1988 Marubun Scientific Award, the 2004 Ichimura Award, the 2007 MEXT Prize for Science and Technology, the 2008 IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the 2012 Izuo Hayashi Award from JSAP, the 2015 Tokyo Metropolitan Government Award, the 2017 Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Award, the 2018 Okawa Prize, 2019 Optica Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award, the 2024 Hirose Prize, 2024 IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal for Semiconductor Optoelectronic Technologies (co-recipient) and 2024 IEICE Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award. He is Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow, Honorary Member of IEICE, Fellow of Optica and Fellow of Japan Society of Applied Physics. He was elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2025.
Dr. Vitaly Shchukin
Vertically Integrated (VI) Systems GmbH, Germany
Title: Coupled Aperture Mini-Arrays of Oxide-Confined VCSELs for Data Transmission at 200 Gb/s and beyond
Vitaly Shchukin received the Diploma in physics and engineering from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia, and the PhD and Doctor of Sciences Degrees in physics and mathematics from Abraham Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. As scientist he was with Abraham Ioffe Institute and Technical University of Berlin. From 2003 till 2006 he was Senior Scientist at NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH (now Innolume GmbH), Dortmund. Since 2007 he is Chief Scientific Officer at VI Systems GmbH, Berlin, the company developing advanced optical components for ultra-high speed data transmission. He authored and co-authored >250 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, over 30 patent families and a monograph. His research topics cover self organization phenomena at the epitaxy of nanostructures and development of advanced optoelectronic devices with novel functionality, such as vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, edge-emitting lasers, light-emitting diodes, single photon sources, etc. His highest citation index, as of first author in Google Scholar is 1374 (https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.71.1125).