Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Geard Wysocki

Prof. GeRard Wysocki

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director of MIRTHE+
Associated Faculty in the Princeton Institute of Materials (PRISM)
Princeton University
New Jersey, USA


Prof. Wysocki current research interests focus on the development of laser-based spectroscopic systems for chemical sensing, with a strong emphasis on real-world applications in atmospheric chemistry and environmental monitoring, bio-medical research, and industrial process control.

Prof. Dr. Mikhail Belkin

Chair of Semiconductor Technology
Walter Schottky Institute
Technical University of Munich, Germany

Dr. Belkin’s research interests are MIR and THz photonics, optoelectronics, and nonlinear optics. Recent projects include the investigation of exotic linear and nonlinear optical effects in metamaterials and low-dimensional structures, development and application of compact room-temperature MIR and THz sources and detectors, tunable plasmonic devices, integrated MIR photonics systems, and sub-wavelength resolution vibrational spectroscopy.

Prof. Dr. Mikhail Belkin

Prof. Simona M. Cristescu

Prof. Simona M. Cristescu

Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Chemometrics
Institute for Molecules and Materials
Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Prof. Cristescu research is focused on detection of volatile compounds in complex gas mixtures. Her group develops and applies techniques and analytical methodologies using optical absorption spectroscopy and mass spectrometry for a wide range of gas concentrations (from sub-ppb to percentages). Applications include: biomarkers detection and monitoring for precision medicine, fruit storage, dairy farming, air pollution and wastewater monitoring, plasma diagnostics, etc.

Prof. Dr. Jérôme Faist

Prof. Dr. Jérôme Faist

Full professor of Quantum Optics
Department of Physics

Institut für Quantenelektronik
ETH Zürich
Switzerland

Prof. Faist present interests are the development of high performance QC lasers in the Mid and Far-​infrared and the physics of coherence in intersubband transitions in the presence of strong magnetic fields. His central role in the invention and first demonstration of the quantum cascade laser in 1994 was recognised by several awards.

Ing. Dr. Peter Burgholzer

CEO of RECENDT - Research Center for Non-Destructive Testing GmbH, Germany

Peter Burgholzer’s main working area is non-destructive testing with optical methods, especially laser ultrasound, photoacoustic and photothermal imaging, and optical coherence tomography. He is scientific director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Photoacoustic Imaging and Laser Ultrasonics and CEO of RECENDT. In recent years, the combination of IR thermography with acoustic reconstruction has been in his scientific focus to combine the advantages of thermography and ultrasound.

Ing. Dr. Peter Burgholzer

Speakers

Invited Speakers

Dr. Paolo De Natale, CNR-INO, Italy
Prof. Qijie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Lei Dong, Shanxi University, China
Dr. Yufei Ma, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Prof. Ilaria Cristiani, Università di Pavia, Italy
Prof. Ulrike Willer, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Prof. Juha Toivonen, Tampere University, Finland
Prof. Weidong Chen, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France
Prof. Marco Marangoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Prof. Antonio Castrillo, Università della Campania, Italy
Dr. Thomas Rueck, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule, Germany
Prof. Roberto Li Voti, Università La Sapienza, Italy
Dr. Paul Chevalier, Harvard University, MA, USA
Prof. Mladen Franko, Univerza v Novi Gorici, Slovenia
Prof. Andrea Di Falco, University of St Andrews, UK
Prof. em. Markus Sigrist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
Dr. Mélanie Ghysels-Dubois, CNRS, France
Dr. Kevin Cossel, NIST, USA
Dr. Markus Brandstetter, RECENDT, Austria
Prof. Chiara Cordero, Università degli Studi di Torino
Prof. Marcus Wolff, HAW Hamburg, Germany