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Anna C. Peacock is a Professor of Photonics within the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton.  She obtained her BSc and MSc in Physics from The University of Auckland (New Zealand), before moving to the ORC to undertake a PhD in Nonlinear Fibre Optics. She was subsequently awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, in recognition of her pioneering work on fiberized semiconductor devices. Anna now heads the Nonlinear Semiconductor Photonics group, where the focus of her research is on the design and development of novel semiconductor waveguides. She is a fellow of the Optical Society (FOSA), the IEEE Photonics Society (FIEEE), and the Institute of Physics (FInstP). She is currently serving as a Deputy Director of the ORC, responsible for the Photonics Systems, Circuits and Sensors group.

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Miles Padgett is a Royal Society Research Professor and also holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow in the UK.

His research team covers all things optical, from the basic ways in which light behaves as it pushes and twists the world around us, to the application of new optical techniques in imaging and sensing. They are currently using the classical and quantum properties of light to explore: the laws of quantum physics in accelerating frames, microscopes that see through noise, shaped light that overcomes diffraction-limited resolution and endoscopes the width of a human hair.

He is a Fellow both of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society (the UK's national academy), in addition to subject specialist societies. He has won various national and international prizes including, in 2019, the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society and in 2021 the Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize of the European Physical Society. Since 2019 he has been identified by Web of Science as a globally highly-cited researcher.

Miles is currently the Principal Investigator of QuantIC, the UK's Centre of excellence for research, development and innovation in quantum enhanced imaging, bringing together eight Universities with more than 40 industry partners.

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This session will end with a 30-minute round table discussion.

Hatice Altug received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University (U.S.) in 2007. She is professor at Ecole Polytechnique since 2013 and leading BioNanoPhotonic Systems Laboratory. Prior to EPFL, she was professor at Boston University from 2007 to 2013. Her research is focused in the application of nanophotonics to life sciences and biomedical fields with the development of biosensing, spectroscopy and bioimaging systems. Prof. Altug is the recipient of numerous awards including European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction, Optical Society of America Adolph Lomb Medal, U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award and Koc University Science Medal. She received European Commission ERC Consolidator and Proof of Concept Grants, U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Massachusetts Life Science Center New Investigator Award. In 2011, she has been named to Popular Science Magazine's "Brilliant 10" list. She is fellow of Optical Society of America and senior member of SPIE.

Hatice's laboratory web-site: https://www.epfl.ch/labs/bios/
Twitter Handle: @EPFL_altug_lab

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Invited Speakers:

Adèle Morisset, AeroDIODE, CTO and Co-founder

José Valverde Sánchez, Holoeye, Development Engineer

Reinhard Windemuth, Photonics Connect, Sales Director

Peter Zghaib, ENGIE, Research Engineer

Kishan Dholakia is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Director of the newly established Centre of Light for Life at the University of Adelaide. He is also a Professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

His team’s works on a broad range of fundamental and interdisciplinary aspects of photonics, using structured (shaped) light fields. As an example, his group has pioneered the understanding and use of propagation invariant beams in imaging, optical manipulation and cell nanosurgery. Present topics in the group focus on imaging, sensing and manipulation. They include speckle metrology, advanced light sheet imaging including label-free approaches and optical trapping, including rotational levitated optomechanics. His group has been central to addressing key biological problems with such advanced photonics.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Optical Society and SPIE. He has won a number of national and international awards including the R.W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society (2016), the IOP Thomas Young Medal and Prize (2017) and SPIE Dennis Gabor Award (2018). His work in light sheet imaging and manipulation has been seen very successful industry translation, with instruments used in over ten countries worldwide.

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Claudio Conti is associate professor at the Department of Physics of the University Sapienza in Rome. He has been Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of the Italian National Research Council. He received the New Talent Grant from the Research Center Enrico Fermi and a Humboldt fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. He participated in various research projects, including an ERC Grant, “Light and Complexity,” that led to the first observation of replica symmetry breaking, cited in the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021. CC authored over 250 articles in top-level journals; his research interests encompass complex systems, machine learning, photonics, and nonlinear optics with applications such as Ising machines and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics.

Claudio's website: complexlight.org

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Fredrik Laurell is a professor of physics at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of Optica and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He has been the chairman of the Swedish Optical Society, and the Swedish national committee for optics (ICO). He cofounded PhotonicSweden, the national platform in Photonics, and chaired the Optics section at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and he work on leadership positions at EOS for more six years. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific journal papers and 500 conference papers and he holds 18 patents. He has co-founded 5 companies and received the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics.

Laurell’s research spans studies of optical materials, fiber optics, nonlinear optics, and laser physics. He is particularly interested in pushing photonics into real world applications and works extensively with outreach activities.

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Chi-Kuang Sun from the Taiwan Photonics Society (TPS), a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) partner with the European Optical Society (EOS), has been invited to give a plenary talk at EOSAM 2024.