Previous Invited Speakers
The researchers below were distinguished invited speakers at previous PHOTOPTICS conferences.
We are indebted to them for their contribution to heighten the conference level.
2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013
2025
Compact Optical Spectroscopy: The Future of Food Analytics in Your Pocket 
Anna Grazia Mignani, Institute of Applied Physics "Nello Carrara" (IFAC), CNR, Italy Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Photochemistry Anatoly Zayats, King's College London, United Kingdom Optical and Electronic Fourier Surfaces David J. Norris, Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2024
Strong Light-Matter Coupling and Polariton Lasing in Metallic and Dielectric Metasurfaces Jaime Gomez Rivas, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (Non-)Reciprocity and Nanotechnology: Demonstration of a Nonlinear Optical Diode Olivier Martin, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Optical Tomographic Imaging of Acoustically Levitated Biological SamplesMonika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
2023
All-Optical Modulation via MetamaterialsHumeyra Caglayan, Tampere University, Finland Graphene and Layered Materials for Photonics and OptoelectronicsAndrea Ferrari, Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Towards the Increase of Sensitivity and Resolution of Fabry-Perot Cavities Susana Silva, INESC TEC, Portugal
2022
Deeply Subwavelength Layered Metamaterials: From Hyperbolic Dispersion Metasurfaces to Fano Resonance Optical Coatings Giuseppe Strangi, Case Western Reserve University, USA, and CNR-NANOTEC, University of Calabria, Italy Dielectric Nanophotonics for Reconfigurable Planar Optics and BiosensingRomain Quidant, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Electro-Optic Metal-Oxides for Miniaturised Telecom and Sensing Devices Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Institute for Quantum Electronics, Optical Nanomaterial Group, Switzerland Topological Plasmonics: Ultrafast Vector Movies of Plasmonic Skyrmions on the Nanoscale Harald Giessen, 4. Physikalisches Institut, University of Stuttgart, Germany
2021
Tailoring Light Emission with Metasurfaces Jean-Jacques Greffet, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Université Paris-Saclay, France Quantum Optical Heat Machines: Engines, Refrigerators, Transistors Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2020
Nonlinear, Tunable and Light-Emitting All-Dielectric Metasurfaces I. Staude, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Optical Tweezers on Nanostructures Onofrio M. Maragò, CNR-Istituto Processi Chimico-Fisici, Italy Infrared Signatures of Interactions between Molecules and Free Charge Carriers in Nanostructures Annemarie Pucci, University of Heidelberg, Germany Ultrafast Dynamics of Two-dimensional Materials Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2019
Holographic Micro-endoscopy based on Multimode Waveguides Tomáš Čižmár, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany Organic-inorganic Hybrids for Green Photonic Components Development and IoTRute A. S. Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal All-optical Control of Magnetism: From Fundamentals to Nanoscale Engineering Alexey V. Kimel, Radboud University, Netherlands Overcoming Losses of Plasmonic Nanoantennas and Gaining Some New Optical PropertiesPablo Albella, University of Cantabria, Spain
2018
The Physics and Technology of Metadevices and Metasystems Kevin MacDonald, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Glass-based Photonic Structures - Advances and Perspectives Maurizio Ferrari, National Research Council of Italy (CNR) Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN), Italy The Optical Characterisation of the Cold, Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas used for Medical Applications Bill Graham, Queens University of Belfast, United Kingdom Enhancing and Controlling Light with Plasmonic and Non-Plasmonic Nanoantennas - Potential Applications in Medicine, (Bio-) Sensing or Spectroscopy Pablo Albella, University of Cantabria, Spain
2017
Infrared Glasses and Fibers for Optics and Photonics Jean–Luc Adam, Université de Rennes 1 - CNRS, France Emerging Fibre Technology for Optical Communications David J. Richardson, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
2016
Microgel Photonics - A New Avenue for Multiresponsive Optical Fiber Nanoprobes Andrea Cusano, University of Sannio, Italy Light-matter Interactions in Whispering-gallery-mode Microresonators Giancarlo C. Righini, Enrico Fermi Centre & IFAC CNR, Italy Surface Dimensional Metrology by Optical Triangulation Manuel Filipe Costa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015
Fundamentals and Applications of Plasma Filaments Ludger Wöste, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany New Advances in Fabry-perot Cavity for Sensing Applications Orlando Frazão, INESC Porto, Portugal Nonlinear Optics in Silicon Photonics Klaus Petermann, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Varying Speed of Light, Cosmic Structure and the Quest for Quantum Gravity João Magueijo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom FiberLab – A Multi-sensing Approach in a Single Optical Fiber Wolfgang Schade, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
2014
Photon Wave Fronts - Frontiers in Photonics David Andrews, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom Multifunctional Nanoscale Oxide Conductors and Semiconductors Elvira Fortunato, Independent Researcher, Portugal Simply..circumventing the Diffraction Limit - Fluorescence Optical Microscopy at the Nanoscale Alberto Diaspro, Independent Researcher, Italy Dielectric Waveguide Amplifiers and Lasers Markus Pollnau, University of Twente, Netherlands Cells as Bits - Biomedical Diagnostics Inspired by Data Communication Techniques Bahram Jalali, UCLA, United States
2013
Fabrication of Guided-Wave Optical Devices by Laser Direct Writing and ApplicationsPaulo Marques, FCUP / INESC Porto, Portugal Some Relations between Visual Perception and Non-Linear Photonic Structures José A. Martín-Pereda, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Versatile, All-fibre based Sources Roy Taylor, Imperial College London, United Kingdom