Event Chairs

David Andrews University of East Anglia United Kingdom

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David Andrews is Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of East Anglia, where his group conducts research on fundamental photonics, optomechanical forces, optical vortices, nonlinear optics, energy harvesting and molecular energy transport. He has twenty books and over 350 research papers to his name. David Andrews is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Optical Society of America, and SPIE - the international optics and photonics society, in which he is the 2019 Vice-President.

Paulo António Ribeiro Department of Physics, LIBPhys Portugal https://www.cefitec.fct.unl.pt/

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Paulo Ribeiro graduated in Physics and Materials Engineering from the NOVA School od Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCT) in 1989 and received the title of Doctor in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil in 1999. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at NOVA FCT, where he has dedicated to teaching applied optics and photonics and organizing teaching sessions and exhibitions in the field of physics optics. He has been College Ambassador, to promote the institution since 2016. He is a founding member of the research group Fu nctional Molecular Systems Plasmas and Applications at the associate laboratory, Laboratory of Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys) at NOVA FCT, where he has been dedicated to the development and characterization of molecular thin films of functional molecules for applications in optics, photonics, sensors, and devices. Since 2013 he is co-chairing the series of international PHOTOPTICS conferences, in the field of Photonics, Optics and laser Technology. ... More >>

Pablo Albella Facultad de Ciencias, University of Cantabria Spain

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Pablo Albella holds a prestigious researcher position (RyC), at the University of Cantabria and is invited researcher at Imperial College London. He holds a PhD in Physics since 2009 awarded with the prize of best thesis in physics that year. He was postdoctoral researcher from 2010 to 2013 at the Material Physics Center (UPV/CSIC) in San Sebastian, from 2013 to 2017 senior research associate at Imperial College London, U.K. and tenure-track researcher at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. His research interests and activities are mainly devoted to the fields of nanophotonics and materials science. In particular, to the optical modelling and innovation of photonic structures able to enhance the performance of the actual nanodevices that rely on light-matter interaction to boost applications like sensing, spectroscopy, optical nanocircuits, customized metamaterials or energy storage. He aims to, not only the electromagnetic understanding and application of plasmonics, but also to open new fascinating possibilities in the field using novel nanostructures made of alternative materials. ... More >>

Maria Raposo LIBPhys, NOVA School of Science and Technology Portugal

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Maria Raposo received the Ph.D. degree in Materials Sciences and Engineering by Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil in 1999 and, since 2000, is professor at Physics Department of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, lecturing Solid State Physics, Surface and Interfaces Technology, Conducting Polymers, Molecular Electronics and Physics of Functional Macromolecular Systems. She is Head of the Functional Molecular Systems group since 2008, whose research interests include electric and optical properties of ultra-thin films of polymers and biomolecules, interfaces and nano-technology, coll oids, molecular architectures for electronics, photonics and magnetism, biomimetic membranes and radiation effect in biological systems. ... More >>

André Xuereb University of Malta Malta

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André Xuereb is physicist from Malta. He read for an undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Malta, a PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Southampton in the UK, and a master degree in entrepreneurship at the University of Malta. He is professor of atomic and quantum physics at the University of Malta, is Science Policy Officer of the Malta Chamber of Scientists, represents Malta on several European research networks, and was recently elected as the first Maltese member of the Global Young Academy. André has an active career in science, having established and leading the quantum research group at the University of Malta, and co-owns an educational software startup.