Invited Speakers

As in previous years, EOSAM 2026 will feature high-level invited speakers, who will take the stage at the conference in Tampere, FInland, on 24–28 August 2026.

Below a list of confirmed invited speakers, more information can be found under each topic.
 

TOM-Biophotonics

Radek Lapkevicz, University of Warsaw (PL): title to be announced

Pascal Berto, Institut Fresnel, Marseille (FR): title to be announced

Peter Dedecker, University of Leuven (BE): title to be announced

Marijonas Tutkus, Vilnius University (LT): Single-molecule localisation microscopy augmented with tracking reveals live-cell dynamics of carbonic anhydrase IX

TOM-Nanophotonics

Clivia Sotomayor, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (PT): Harnessing Photon-Phonon Interactions in Nanostructure

Antonio I. Fernández Dominguez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ES): Geometric Antibunching and Quantum Nonlinearities in Emitter Lattices

TOM-Optical System Design, Tolerancing and Manufacturing

Stefan Sinzinger, Technische Universität Ilmenau (DE): Unconventional ways of thinking about optical systems - A Tribute to the 100th Birthday of Prof. Adolf Lohmann

Vladan Blahnik, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (DE): The Lost Sixth Primary Aberration

TOM-Quantum Optics

Stefan Scheel, University of Rostock (DE): Path integral approach to field quantization in nonlinear dielectric materials

Ina Heckelmann, ETH Zürich (CH): Quantum Walk Combs: Active Mode-Locking in the Fast-Gain Regime

Young-lk Sohn, KAIST (KR): title to be announced

André Garcia Primo, EPFL (CH): Towards electro-optic transduction of mmwave quantum signals

TOM-Ultrafast Phenomena

Sarah Houver, Université Paris Cité (FR): Probing carrier dynamics with THz time-domain spectroscopy

Irina Sorokina, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU (NO): title to be announced

Íñigo Sola, University of Salamanca (ES): Amplitude Swing: versatile pulse diagnostics technique for ultrashort pulse metrology

TOM-Optical Materials

Polina Kuzhir, University of Eastern Finland (FI): Engineering Terahertz–UV Emitters: Black Surfaces

Inga Fischer, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus – Senftenberg (DE): Optoelectronic Ge-based Metasurface Devices and their Realization on a 200mm Silicon Photonics Platform

Francesco Banfi, Institut Lumiere Matiere, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, FemtoNanoOptics group (FR): High-Aspect-Ratio Semiconductors Optical Materials: from MoS2 nanotubes to InAs nanowires

Tomasz Ragin, Bialystok University of Technology, Department of Photonics, Electronics and Lighting Technology (PL): Engineering Active Glass Thin Films for Infrared Photonics

TOM-Frontiers in Optical Metrology

Lucie Hüser, University of Kassel (DE): Signal formation in focus variation microscopy and coherence scanning interferometry

Maciej Trusiak, Warsaw University of Technology (PL): title to be announced

Peter Kraus, ARCNL, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL): title to be announced

FS-Solid-Core & Hollow-Core Fiber Applications

KyeoReh Lee, Yale University (US): Single-frequency multimode-fiber amplifiers under full control

Radan Slavik, University of Southampton (UK): Low-noise lasers stabilized to hollow core fibre interferometers

FS-Fibres for Visible and Mid-IR Lasers

Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Adelaide University (AU): Rare-earth doped soft glasses and fibres: from fundamental insights to laser and sensing applications

Martin Bernier, COPL, Laval University (CA): Recent advances in high-power mid-infrared fiber lasers

FS-Laser Drivers for Inertial Fusion Energy

Mikhail Pergament, CFEL, DESY-Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE): Toward Next-Generation Fusion Drivers with Cryogenic Yb:YLF Lasers

FS-Structured Light

Isaac Nape, University of the Witwatersrand (ZA): title to be announced

Haoran Ren, Monash University (AU): Nanophotonic manipulation of structured light: from free-space to polaritonics

Martin Lavery, Glasgow University (UK): title to be announced

FS-Non-linear Metasurfaces

Mohsen Rahmani, Nottingham Trent University (UK): Image Generation through Nonlinear Metasurfaces

Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, LAAS-CNRS (FR): Electrically tunable Cavity-Resonator-Integrated-Grating-Filters (CRIGFs)