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2026 Invited Speakers

3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (3D)
Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications (AO)
Applied Industrial Spectroscopy (AIS)
Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)
Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS)
Hyperspectral/Multispectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment (HISE)
Imaging Systems and Applications (IS)
Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis (LACSEA)
Optical Sensors (Sensors)
Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)
Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena (pcAOP)
Quantum Sensing and Metrology (QSM)

3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications (3D)

  • Giorgio Adamo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
    Super-resolution Microscopy of Limited-size Objects
  • Luis Aleman-Castaneda, Fresnel Institut, France
    3D Single-Molecule Orientation Imaging with Light Field Microscopy
  • Rusha Chatterjee, Physical Sciences Inc., United States
    Raman Spectroscopy Based Chemical Identification using an Interferometric Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer System
  • Kristina Irsch, Institut De La Vision Paris, France
    Towards In Vivo Human Microscopy via the Human Eye: From 3D Imaging to Quantification
  • Pierre Marquet, Université Laval, Canada
    Polychromatic Digital Holographic Microscopy for Robust Quantitative Phase Imaging and Disease-relevant Cellular Phenotyping
  • Pasquale Memmolo, Institute of Intelligent Systems ISASI, Italy
    Enhancing the capabilities of single-cell holotomographic imaging flow cytometry via Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality
  • Yusuke Ogura, University of Osaka, Japan
    Spatial Photonic Ising Machines with Enhanced Optimization Performance
  • Sedick Rabia, Université Laval, Canada
    Ray Tracing Applied to Binocular Perception and Modeling Visual Aberrations in 3D-LF Display
  • Charles Roques-Carmes, Institute Science & Technology Austria, Austria
    Separating Partially Coherent Light
  • Atsushi Shibukawa, Hokkaido University, Japan
    Large Field-of-view Imaging and Display: From Aberration-tolerant Objective Lens to Arbitrary Spatial Transformation
  • Enrique Tajahuerce, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
    Single-pixel Microscopy: From Compressive Sensing to Wide-field 2P-imaging
  • Carlos Trujillo, Univ Nacional de Colombia Medellin, Colombia
    Holographic and lensless imaging: From disease monitoring in resource-limited settings to in situ microplastic detection
  • Maciej Trusiak, Politechnika Warszawska, Poland
    From Deep-UV Chemical Contrast to Near-IR Scattering Reduction: High-content Lensless Holographic Microscopy and Tomography on a standard CMOS Camera

Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis and Applications (AO)

  • Paul Bierden, Boston Micromachines Corporation, United States
    MEMS Deformable Mirrors: Architecture, Performance, and Deployment
  • Dierck Hillmann, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
    From Hardware-Based to Computational Adaptive Optics in Ophthalmology
  • Alexander Jesacher, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
    Novel Approaches to Adaptive Optics in Nonlinear and Single-Molecule Microscopy
  • Ruizhe Lin, SciLifeLab, Sweden
    Adaptive Optics in Super-resolution Fluorescence Microscopy
  • Yan Liu, Indiana University, United States
    High-Speed Adaptive Optics in Ophthalmology
  • Inès Loukili, Institut De La Vision Paris, France
    Influence of Partial Spatial Coherence and Aberrations in Full-field Optical Coherence Tomography
  • Aurelie Magniez, Durham University, United Kingdom
    Towards Improved Pyramid Wavefront Sensors: Polychromaticity and 3D Printing
  • Dylan Marques, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
    Model-Based Aberration Correction in a Commercial Two-Photon Microscope
  • Barnaby Norris, University of Sydney, Australia
    Title to be Announced
  • Florian Quatresooz, Office Natl d'Etudes Rech Aerospatiales, France
    Atmospheric Turbulence Profiling using Adaptive Optics for Free-Space Optical Communications
  • Pouya Rajaeipour, Phaseform GmbH, Germany
    Deformable Phase Plates for Adaptive Optics: A Decade of Development and Expanding Applications

Applied Industrial Spectroscopy (AIS)

  • Frank Hegmann, University of Alberta, Canada
    Probing Ultrafast Nanoscale Terahertz Dynamics in Semiconductors Tutorial
  • Andrei Anisimov, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
    Optical Sensing and Metrology for Material Characterization and Non-destructive Testing in Aerospace
  • David Citrin, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
    Terahertz Imaging for Art and Industry
  • Benjamin Dewes, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
    Fast Utraviolet-C Photonics: Generating and Sensing Laser Pulses on Femtosecond Timescales
  • Sidney Goossens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    Optical Fiber Sensors in Harsh Environments: From Nuclear Fuel Assemblies to Aerospace-grade Conditions
  • Nazanin Hoghooghi, NIST Boulder, United States
    Chemical Kinetics Diagnostics with Mid-Infrared Dual-Comb Spectroscopy
  • Andreas Huber, attocube systems, Germany
    Infrared Correlation Nanoscopy with Unprecedented Spectral Coverage
  • Mona Jarrahi, University of California Los Angeles, United States
    Industrial Inspection through High-throughput Plasmonic Terahertz Imaging Systems
  • Lex Oosterveld, Interuniversity Microelectronics Center, Netherlands
    Agrifood Applications for Spectral Sensing Using On-chip Tunable Lasers
  • Ryan Rhoades, Vescent, United States
    Fielded Optical Frequency Combs: Robust Dual-Comb Hardware and Applications
  • Lukasz Sterczewski, Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland
    Incoherent Room-temperature Fourier Spectrometry from the Ultraviolet to the THz
  • Chris Van Hoof, OnePlanet Research Center, Netherlands
    Title to be Announced

Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)

  • Miguel Alonso, Fresnel Institut, France
    Using Birefringence at the Service of Imaging
  • Alexandre Aubry, Institut Langevin, France
    Reflection matrix approach to deep optical imaging
  • Hilton Barbosa de Aguiar, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France
    Computational Raman Imaging: Enabling Fast and Towards Deep Chemical Imaging
  • Martin Booth, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    Liquid Crystal Adaptive Coherence Control for Microscopy and Metrology
  • Jonathan Dong, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
    Phase Retrieval: Computational Imaging in the Machine Learning Era
  • Tatiana Latychevskaia, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
    Numerical Recipies in Coherent Optics and Holography
  • Seung Ah Lee, Seoul National University, Republic Of Korea
    Title to be Announced
  • Lars Loetgering, ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions, Germany
    Spectral Unmixing Algorithms for Ultra-Multiplex Fluorescence Microscopy
  • Vicente Mico, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
    Lensless Imaging Applied to Ophthalmic Compensation of Refractive Error
  • Allard Mosk, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
    Precision Imaging with Shaped and Shapeless Illumination
  • Maria Navas Moreno, University of Utah, United States
    Title to be Announced
  • Jonathan Petruccelli, State University of New York at Albany, United States
    Cell Measurements with Propagation-Based Quantitative Phase Imaging
  • David Phillips, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
    Multi-plane Wavefront Shaping: All-optically Unscrambling Light to See Through Complex Media with Self-configuring Diffractive Optical Networks
  • Xin Yuan, Westlake University, China
    Title to be Announced
  • Chao Zuo, Nanjing Univ of Science and Technology, China
    Quantitative Zernike Phase-Contrast Microscopy

Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS)

  • Birgitta Bernhardt, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
    Dual Comb Spectroscopy across the Visible and Ultraviolet Spectral Regions
  • Alan Costley, Independent Researcher, 
    Fusion Developments and How FTS Fits In
  • Alain Cournoyer, ABB Inc., Canada
    30 Years of Space-Borne FTS Evolution at ABB
  • Nelson de Oliveira, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France
    15 Years of Operation for the VUV-FTS Endstation at the Synchrotron SOLEIL Facility
  • Dale Fixsen, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
    MIR Sensing, Liquids, Gas Sensing
  • Matthias Frey, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
    From Development to Application: Using the EM27/SUN-FTIR Spectrometer for Atmospheric Observations in the Framework of the Collaborative Carbon Column Observing Network COCCON
  • Jérôme Genest, Université Laval, Canada
    Quantum Advantages in DCS?
  • Fabrizio Giorgetta, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
    Adaptive Dual-Comb Spectroscopy Platform for Customized Step-Scan and Apodized Sampling Patterns
  • Sona Hosseini, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
    Title to be Announced
  • Fabien Marnas, ESA European Space Research & Tech Ctr, Netherlands
    ESA’s FORUM Mission Concept, Instrument and Mission Development Status
  • Astrid Müller, National Inst for Environmental Studies, Japan
    Simultaneous Shipborne FTS–VIS and In Situ Observation of GHGs and Air Pollutants as a New Tool for Emission Monitoring and Satellite Validation
  • Qinxue Nie, Umeå Universitet, Sweden
    Triple-resonance Spectroscopy Using a Cavity-enhanced Comb-based Fourier Transform Spectrometer
  • Patrick Sheese, University of Toronto, Canada
    Stratospheric Trends from ACE-FTS after the Hunga Tonga Eruption
  • William Ward, University of New Brunswick, Canada
    Advantages of Field-Widened Interferometry for High Spectral Resolution Applications
  • Ming Yan, East China Normal University, China
    Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy with Enhanced Sensitivity

Hyperspectral/Multispectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment (HISE)

  • Alexander Berk, Spectral Sciences Incorporated, United States
    MODTRAN6 Radiometric DISORT and MODTRAN7 Polarimetric VDISORT Path Segment Scattering Contributions
  • Malik Chami, Sorbonne Université, France
    GALENE: A Future Satellite Mission for Observing Coastal and Inland Aquatic Ecosystems and Wetlands
  • Robin Cole, EarthDaily Analytics, Canada
    Designing Earth Observation Systems for AI: EarthDaily’s Approach to Daily Global Sensing and Foundation Models for a Changing Planet
  • Kristen Cote, Wyvern, Canada
    Wyvern's Hyperspectral Satellite Constellation: From Dragonette to Rosette
  • Doug Degenstein, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
    Balloon-based Performance Characterization of an Imaging FTS Designed to Make High Spatial Resolution Measurements of Greenhouse Gases over the Arctic from a Highly Elliptical Orbit
  • Martin Habermeyer, DLR - Wessling, Germany
    Four Years in Orbit: Data from the EnMAP Mission
  • Guillaume Hans, Metaspectral, Canada
    Emulating Expert Systems for Global Mineral Mapping: A Deep Learning Approach to EMIT Tetracorder Retrievals
  • Erin Hestir, University of California Merced, United States
    BioSCape: Advancing Global Biodiversity Monitoring through NASA’s First Biodiversity-focused Airborne and Field Campaign
  • Jeremy Kravitz, Pixxel, United States
    Pushing the Limits of Aquatic Remote Sensing: Synthetic Data and Deep Learning for hyperspectral Inverse Emulation of A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Radiative Transfer Model
  • Peter Liu, ITRES Research Limited, Canada
    ITRES SAVI: VIS to SWIR (400nm to 2500nm) Hyperspectral Imaging System Developed with a Single Detector and Single Spectrometer
  • Knut Stamnes, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
    Passive and Active Remote Sensing of the Environment: Challenges and Opportunities in Radiative Transfer Modeling
  • Stefanie Steinhauser, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munchen, Germany
    Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Agriculture: Crop Health Assessment and Precision Farming Case Studies
  • Andrea Vander Woude, NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Res Lab, United States
    Forecasting Coastal Weather Hazards and Satelite Data Applications in the Great Lakes

Imaging Systems and Applications (IS)

  • Alberto Dalla Mora, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Lighting the Inside: The Path Toward Optical Radiography Through Next-Generation Photon Detectors
  • Pietro Ferraro, Institute of Intelligent Systems ISASI, Italy
    Single-Cell Tomography: Redefining the Frontiers of Flow Cytometry in Biology and Medicine
  • Dror Fixler, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    High Speed Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurement with the Iso-pathlength (IPL) Point
  • Sjoerd Stallinga, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
    Computational Methods in Super-resolution Microscopy
  • Elbert van Putten, ASML Netherlands B.V., Netherlands
    Optical Overlay Metrology for the Semiconductor Industry
  • Stefan Witte, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
    Extreme Ultraviolet Computational Imaging Systems

Laser Applications to Chemical, Security and Environmental Analysis (LACSEA)

  • Encarnacion Arroyo, Office Natl d'Etudes Rech Aerospatiales, France
    High-Performance Functionalized Persistent Luminescence Nanoparticles for Biosensing and Bioimaging
  • Florian Bauer, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    Thermometry for High Temperature Combustion Processes of Hydrogen, Ammonia and Methane Based on Emission Spectroscopy
  • Sean Coburn, University of Colorado Boulder, United States
    A Tale of Two Emission Sources: Long-term, Open-path Methane Monitoring of Permafrost in Alaska and a Landfill in California
  • Dan Fries, University of Kentucky, United States
    Advanced Laser Diagnostic Measurements in Plasma Environments
  • Ali Hosseinnia, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Tech, Luxembourg
    Geometrical Control of Spatiotemporal Phase in Femtosecond Coherent Raman Scattering
  • Tsubasa Ikami, Tohoku University, Japan
    Boundary Layer Transition Imaging on Airfoils Using Carbon Nanotube Temperature Sensitive Paints
  • Waruna Kulatilaka, Texas A&M University, United States
    Quenching-Free, Coherent Detection of Reactive Atomic Species Using Femtosecond Pulses
  • Meng Li, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
    Remote Laser Sensing of Insect Wing Micro- and Nanofeatures for In Situ Biodiversity Monitoring
  • Chang Liu, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Fast and In-situ Diagnosis of Gas Turbine Engine Combustion using Laser Absorption Tomography
  • Pei-Ling Luo, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    High-resolution Time-resolved Dual-comb Spectroscopy for Atmospheric Chemistry Applications
  • Yves Méheust, University of Rennes, France
    Characterizing Flow, Solute and Heat Transport, and Reactions in the Subsurface: Combining Optical Methods and Analog Lab Experiments
  • Brian Peterson, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    Resolving Barriers of Knowledge in Fire Science using a Suite of Laser Diagnostics
  • F Rabouw, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
    Luminescence Thermometry of Catalytic Reactions
  • Sophie Roman, Université d'Orléans, France
    Micro-Raman Spectroscopy and Optical Imaging in Microfluidic Chips for Real-Time Hydrogeochemical Analysis
  • Austin Webb, Purdue University, United States
    Advancements in Laser Diagnostics in Highly Dynamic Rotating Detonation Engines
  • Ruocan Zhao, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China
    Scalable Dual-Comb Atmospheric Spectroscopy: From Field Deployment to Space-Ground Networks

Optical Sensors (Sensors)

  • Francesco Arcadio, Univ della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy
    Optical Sensors in Point-of-care Tests for Biomedical Applications
  • Martina Delgado-Pinar, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
    Forward Brillouin Scattering in Optical Fibers for Remote Sensing: Cases of Application in Harsh Environments
  • Jakub Dostalek, FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech, Austria
    Digital Bioassay Formats with Plasmonically Enhanced Optical Readout
  • Flavio Esposito, Univ degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
    Recent Progress in Fiber Optic Sensors for Biochemical Sensing: From Grating- to Nanomaterial-based Devices
  • Yosuke Mizuno, Yokohama National University, Japan
    Distributed Brillouin Sensing with Plastic Optical Fibers: Recent Advances and Future Directions
  • Inigo Molina-Fernandez, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
    Improved Photonic Integrated Sensors for Biomedical Applications
  • Michael Nagel, Protemics GmbH, Germany
    Non-Destructive Inspection of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Using Photoconductive THz Near-Field Microprobes
  • Jing Pan, University of Florida, United States
    Photothermal Recycling Biosensing for Sensitive, Continuous Biomolecular Quantification
  • SaeJune Park, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
    Terahertz Metamaterials: Biosensing and Other Applications
  • Lalitha Ponnampalam, University College London, United Kingdom
    Enabling High-resolution Gas Sensing with On-chip THz Sources
  • Anton Saetchnikov, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
    Modular Multiparameter Sensing using WGM Microresonators Enabled by Hybrid AI Frameworks
  • Cosimo Trono, Ist di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara, Italy
    Optical Fiber Grating Biosensors: Practical Insights and Design Strategies
  • Minghong Yang, Wuhan University of Technology, China
    Fiber-optic Hydrogen Sensing

Optics and Photonics for Sensing the Environment (ES)

  • Carolin Bauer, K2 Photonics, Switzerland
    Mid-IR Cross Comb Spectroscopy for Multi-compound Trace Gas Sensing Using an Optical Parametric Oscillator
  • Rohit Bhartia, Photon Systems, United States
    From Diamond to Protein Qubits
  • Simone Borri, Istituto di Nanoscienze Modena, CNR, Italy
    Exploring the Sensitivity and Resolution of Cavity-enhanced Photoacoustic Sensors
  • Ryan Cole, Bates College, United States
    Improving Optical Absorption Models with Precision Frequency Comb Spectroscopy
  • Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez, Universidad de Alcala, Spain
    High-resolution Observation of Ocean Water Dynamics Using Available Submarine Optical Fibers
  • Juho Karhu, Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland
    Cantilever-enhanced Photoacoustics in In-situ Aerosol Sensing
  • Bernhard Lendl, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
    MIR Sensing, Liquids, Gas Sensing
  • Elizabeth Lunny, Aerodyne Research Inc, United States
    A Field-deployable, Fast, Sensitive Monitor for Hydrogen Leak Quantification
  • Roman Spesyvtsev, Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd, United Kingdom
    Range-Resolved, Stand-Off Molecular Sensing using Single-Photon 'Quantum' Raman Spectroscopy
  • Tomoko Takahashi, Japan Agency Marine-Earth Sci & Tech, Japan
    In situ Raman Spectrometers for Deep Sea Environmental Monitoring
  • Alex Valavanis, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
    Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Laser Instrumentation for Atmospheric Gas Sensing

Propagation Through and Characterization of Atmospheric and Oceanic Phenomena (pcAOP)

  • Giulio Cossu, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
    Atmospheric Turbulence in Free-Space Optics for Non-Terrestrial Networks
  • Harindra Fernando, University of Notre Dame, United States
    FATIMA: Fog and Turbulence Interactions in the Marine Atmosphere
  • Erna Frins, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
    Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Ground-based Observations in Montevideo
  • Szymon Gladysz, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany
    Underwater Quantum Key Distribution in Realistic Environmental Conditions
  • Oscar Hartogensis, Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands
    Optical Turbulence and Land-Atmosphere Interactions
  • Aurelien Houard, Ecole Polytechnique, France
    Applications of Laser Filamentation in the Atmosphere
  • Matej Njegovec, FERI, Slovenia
    Characterization of Refractive-Index Atmospheric Structural Parameter Using Miniature Fiber-Based Refractive-Index Sensors
  • Roderik Overzier, TNO, Netherlands
    Black Holes and Lasers through Different Optics
  • Yoshihiko Saito, NICT Hokuriku StarBED Technology Center, Japan
    Adaptive optics for satellite-to-ground laser communications at NICT in Japan
  • S. K. Satheesh, Indian Institute of Science, India
    Atmospheric Measurements Relevant to Turbulence: Present Scenario and Future Scope
  • Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, United States
    Generating a Database of Vertical Profiles of Cn2 from Aircraft Measurements
  • Abbie Watnik, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
    Overcoming Latency in Adaptive Optics with Event-based Centroiding and Predictive Algorithms

Quantum Sensing and Metrology (QSM)

  • Gabriel Abrahams, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    Engineering Protein-based Quantum Sensors for Bio-imaging, Sensing and Control
  • Vaishali Adya, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden
    Towards On-chip Squeezed Light Sources for Quantum Enhanced Sensing and Communication
  • Ulrik Lund Andersen, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
    Quantum Advantage in Learning
  • Leonardo Banchi, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
    Chernoff Information Bottleneck for Covert Quantum Target Sensing
  • Laura Dreissen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Precision Quantum Metrology in Trapped Ions for Tests of Fundamental Physics
  • Kevin Gallacher, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Towards Next Generation Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks Using Photonic Integrated Circuits
  • Jan Jeske, Fraunhofer IAF, Germany
    Laser-Cavity-Enhanced Magnetometry with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centres in Diamond
  • Hansol Kim, Sejong University, Republic Of Korea
    Nonlinear Photonics in TFLN for Quantum Light Sources, Visible-Light Quantum Control, and Perspectives on Sensing
  • Sebastian Knauer, AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
    Magnetic Field Learning for Novel Quantum Technologies
  • Peter Maurer, University of Chicago, United States
    From Diamond Defects to Protein-Based Qubit Sensors
  • Jason Pereira, Sorbonne Université, France
    Bounding the Effect of Idler Noise in Quantum Metrology
  • Tim Schröder, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
    Time-Resolved Materials Science with a Quantum Electrometer in Diamond
  • Sebastian Steinlechner, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
    Gravitational-wave Detection Beyond the Shot-noise Limit
  • Stefano Tondini, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Italy
    QuantumXsense: Quantum Environmental Sensing from Lab to Field
  • Jacob Tunesi, National Physical Laboratory (UK), United Kingdom
    Testing Timing Technologies at NPL: Supporting the UK’s Quantum Programme
  • David Vitali, Universita di Camerino, Italy
    Transduction and Sensing with Quantum Optomechanical Systems
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