Invited Speakers

EOSAM 2024 is proud to announce the following high-level invited speakers that take the stage at the conference in Napoli, 9-13 September 2024.
Below a list of all confirmed invited speakers, more information can be found under each Topical meeting or Focused session.

TOM1- Silicon Photonics and integrated optics

Yasuhiko Arakawa, University of Tokyo (JP): Quantum-dot single photon sources (Keynote)

Lionel Kimerling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (US): Silicon photonics technology elements and the roadmap to implementation (Keynote)

Iain Crowe, University of Manchester (UK)

Pierre Berini, University of Ottawa (CA)

Valerio Vitali, University of Pavia (IT): Broadband Wavelength Conversion in Si-rich Silicon Nitride Waveguides Based on Intermodal Four-Wave Mixing

Joan Ramirez, Nokia Bell Labs (FR): The heterogeneous III-V/Si photonic platform: Challenges and opportunities

Robert Halir, University of Malaga (ES): Integrated optical metamaterials: fundamentals and novel applications

Jon Bradley, McMaster University (CA)

Claudio Otón, Scuola Superiore Santa Anna (IT): Phase-based sensing devices on chip

TOM3- Optical System Design, Tolerancing and Manufacturing

Jens Bliedtner, EAH Jena (DE)

Julie Bentley, University of Rochester (US)

Tayyab Suratwala, NIF, LLNL (US)

Jessica DeGroote Nelson, Edmund Optics (US)

Daewook Kim, University of Arizona (US)

Vladan Blahnik, Fridrich-Schiller-Universität (DE)

Hannah Noble, Meta (US)

TOM4- BioPhotonics and biosensors

Elisa Michelini, Dept. of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician", University of Bologna (IT)

Jakub Dostalek, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)

Izabela Kaminska, Center for NanoScience (CeNS, Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München (DE)

TOM5- Nanophotonics

Otto Muskens, University of Southampton (UK)

Jorge Olmos Trigo, Material Physics Center (MPC), San-Sebastian (SP)

Kristina Frizyuk, University of Brescia, (IT)

Andreas Tittl, LMU Munich (DE)

Thomas Bauer, University of Amsterdam (NL)

TOM6- Optical Materials

Thierry Cardinal, CNRS (FR)

Lars Österlund, Uppsala University (SE): Wide-angle transmitting and solar light modulating yttrium Mie resonators: Yttrium hydroxide coated glass nanopillars

Zhenda Xie, Nanjing University (CN): Broadband Kerr comb generation using Lithium niobate on insulator microresonator

Maria Antonietta Vincenti, University of Brescia (IT): From gradient index optics to tunable ENZ: an iontronic approach

TOM7- Ultrafast Phenomena

Birgitta Bernhardt, Graz University of Technology (AU): Coherent Sensing with Dual Comb Spectroscopy

Aurélie Jullien, Institut de Physique de Nice (FR): Thermo-optical liquid-crystal phase modulator for ultrafast optics, driven by neural network

Giuseppe Sansone, Freiburg University (DE): New perspectives for attosecond science at Free Electron Lasers

Chiara Trovatello, Columbia University (US): Quasi-phase-matched up- and down-conversion in periodically poled layered semiconductors