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

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-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): title to be announced

TOM-Optical Materials

Polina Kuzhir, University of Eastern Finland (FI): Engineering Terahertz–UV Emitters and Absorbers: Black Silicon vs Transition Metal 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): All-optical time-resolved nanometrology of 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

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-Structured Light

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

Haoran Ren, Monash University (AU): title to be announced

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): title to be announced