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Invited Speakers

Optica Sensing Congress

Applied Industrial Spectroscopy (AIS)
Optical Sensors (Sensors)
Quantum Sensing and Metrology (QSM)

Applied Industrial Spectroscopy (AIS)

  • Steve Buckley, GeologicAIUnited States
    Multi-Sensor Fusion Powering Geological Discovery and Operations
  • Sergio Carbajo, University of California Los AngelesUnited States
    Quantum Sensing of Bio Molecules through Light Matter Interaction in Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC)
  • Weidong Chen, Universite du LittoralFrance
    Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy for Sensing of Trace Gases and Particulate Matter
  • Frank Hegmann, University of AlbertaCanada
    Terahertz Pulse Probes of Ultrafast Nanoscale Dynamics in Materials
  • Christopher Holmes, University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom
    Ultra-Stable Specklemeter Using Flat Optical Fibre for High-Fidelity Spectral Monitoring
  • Andreas Huber, attocube systemsGermany
    Infrared Correlation Nanoscopy with Unprecedented Spectral Coverage
  • Mona Jarrahi, University of California Los AngelesUnited States
    Advancements in Plasmonic Time-domain Terahertz Spectroscopy Systems
  • Timothy Johnson, Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryUnited States
    Infrared Spectroscopy for Detection of Gas-phase Industrial Fluorine Compounds
  • Christel Kamp, Paul-Ehrlich-InstitutGermany
    Raman Spectroscopy and Data Science in the Quality Control of Biomedicines
  • Mustafa Kansiz, Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp.Australia
  • Charmayne Lonergan, Missouri Univ of Science & TechnologyUnited States
    Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy of Salt and Phosphoric Acid Evolution for Nuclear Waste Immobilization
  • Amanda Makowiecki, LongPath Technologies IncUnited States
  • Werner Mäntele, DiaMonTech AGGermany
    Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Measurement by Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy: Principle and Validation
  • Fanqi Meng, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-UniversitatGermany
    Terahertz Metamaterial Sensors and High-Power Terahertz Emission from Resonant-Tunneling-Diode (RTD) Oscillator Arrays
  • Michael Müller, Ruhr Universitat BochumGermany
    Industrial 2.1µm Holmium-Based Ultrafast Lasers for SWIR-MIR-THz Spectroscopy
  • Willie Padilla, Duke UniversityUnited States
    Agentic Inverse Design of Electromagnetic Metamaterials for Automated Industries of Future
  • Anna Pakula, Politechnika WarszawskaPoland
    The Evolution of Biological Sample Classification, on the Example of Mycoplasma Synoviae Pathogen, based on Multispectral Response and AI
  • Atasi Pal, Central Glass & Ceramics Res InstIndia
    Fiber Laser and Optical Sources for Medical Diagnostics
  • Yves-Alain Peter, Polytechnique MontréalCanada
    Optical Nose on Chip for Methane Emission Monitoring and Reduction in Dairy Farms
  • Stavros Pissadakis, FORTH-IESLGreece
    Optical Fiber Sensors for Probing Compounds and Perturbations in the Gas Phase
  • Lukasz Sterczewski, Politechnika WroclawskaPoland
    Towards Ultra-broadband Fourier Transform Spectroscopy from UV to THz
  • Judith Su, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt SciencesUnited States
    Ultra-Sensitive, Selective, and Label-Free Optical Sensing for Fundamental Science, Environmental Monitoring, and Biomedical Medicine
  • Francesca Venturini, Zurcher Hochschule fur Angewandte WissenSwitzerland
    Overcoming Intrinsic Limitations of Fluorescence Spectroscopy Data in Food Quality and Safety with Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Mihaela Zigman, Max-Planck-Institut fur QuantenoptikGermany
    Infrared Spectroscopy: Profiling the Intricacies of Human Matrices

Optical Sensors (Sensors)

  • Samuel Adelabu, University of the Free StateSouth Africa
    Original HISE speaker: Sustainability of Africa Mountains: The Role of Earth Observation
  • Biondo Biondi, Stanford UniversityUnited States
    Taking the Pulse of Cities with Fiber-Optic Sensing
  • Anthony Campbell, NASAUnited States
    Original HISE speaker: Imaging Spectroscopy from Field to Space for Mapping and Managing Coastal Wetland Ecosystems
  • Sean Coburn, University of Colorado BoulderUnited States
    Original ES speaker: Dual Comb Spectroscopy Measurements of Methane Destruction Efficiency: Application Towards Natural Gas Flare Monitoring
  • Francesco Dell Olio, Politecnico di BariItaly
  • René Eisermann, Physikalisch Technische BundesanstaltGermany
    Sapphire Fibre Bragg Grating-Based Temperature Sensing: Improved Accuracy and Repeatability through Automated Mode Mixing
  • Reuven Gordon, University of VictoriaCanada
  • Mircea Guina, Tampereen Teknillinen YliopistoFinland
    Original ES speaker: Diode Laser Technology (2-3 µm) and PICs for Sensing
  • Tanya Hutter, University of Texas at AustinUnited States
    Precision Sensing: Next-Gen Mid-IR Fiber Probe Sensors
  • Ge Jin, Colorado School of MinesUnited States
    Subsurface Hydraulic Fracture Characterization using Distributed Acoustic Sensing
  • Gun-Yeal Lee, Stanford UniversityUnited States
    Nanophotonics and AI for Optical Imaging and Display Applications
  • Bachana Lomsadze, Santa Clara UniversityUnited States
    Original FTS speaker: Fundamentals and Applications of Frequency Comb-Based Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy
  • Ken Morrison, Anello PhotonicsUnited States
    Handheld Navigation Using Adapted Silicon-Photonics Optical Gyroscope Technology
  • Christian Petrie, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States
  • Ibrahim Sadiek, Ruhr Universitat Bochum
    Original FTS speaker: Precision Frequency Comb Spectroscopy: From Complex Halogenated Compounds to Reactive Plasmas
  • Anton Saetchnikov, Ruhr Universitat BochumGermany
  • Salvador Sales, Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaSpain
    Fiber Processing Techniques to Enhance the Sensitivity of FBG Sensors
  • Viktor Smolski, Alakai Defense SystemsUnited States
    Development of Pr:BYF (247nm) Deep Ultraviolet Laser for Raman Sensing System
  • Miguel Soriano-Amat, RISE-ACREOSpain
    Using Multi-Nyquist Zone Beatings to Performance Enhancement of Time-Expanded ΦOTDR
  • Michael Steindorfer, Austrian Academy of SciencesAustria
    Satellite and Space Debris Laser Ranging with Repetition Rates up to 1 MHz
  • Joel Villatoro, Universidad del Pais VascoSpain
    Mode-Division Optical Fiber Sensors
  • Benjamin Willenberg, ETH ZurichSwitzerland
    Original FTS speaker: 1GHz Dual-Comb Modelocked Sources as a Powerful Remote Sensing Platform
  • Zhisheng Yang, Beijing University of Posts & TelecomChina
  • Luigi Zeni, Univ della Campania Luigi VanvitelliItaly

Quantum Sensing and Metrology (QSM)

  • Oliver Burrow, University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom
    Compact Cold-Atom Platforms for Quantum Sensing Technologies
  • Scott Diddams, University of Colorado BoulderUnited States
    Squeezing Enhanced Dual Comb Spectroscopy
  • Alexey Gorshkov, NIST Inst for Physical Science & TechUnited States
    Quantum Sensor Networks
  • Begüm Kabagöz, MIT Kavli InstituteUnited States
    Towards -10 dB Squeezing: Advanced LIGO Quantum Noise in the Fourth Observing Run
  • Helen Margolis, National Physical Laboratory (UK)United Kingdom
    Optical Clocks for International Timekeeping
  • Robert McConnell, MIT Lincoln LaboratoryUnited States
    Integrated Technologies Enabling Compact Optical Clocks
  • Sara Mouradian, University of WashingtonUnited States
    Radiofrequency Sensing with Trapped Ions
  • Moussa N'Gom, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUnited States
    A Hybrid Quantum Probe for Enhanced Remote Spectroscopy
  • Murphy Yuezhen Niu, University of California Santa BarbaraUnited States
  • Jeff ZheYu Ou, Purdue UniversityUnited States
    Phase-Dependent Hanbury-Brown and Twiss Effect for the Complete Measurement of the Complex Coherence Function
  • Peter Schwindt, Sandia National Laboratories AlbuquerqueUnited States
    Optically Pumped Magnetometers for Measuring the Human Brain
  • Haowei Shi, University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
    Entanglement-Enhanced Sensing and Transduction
  • Stefano Signorini, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies FotoniquesSpain
    An Integrated Photonics Approach to Ghost Spectroscopy and Undetected Photons Sensing
  • Meiting Song, University of California Santa BarbaraUnited States
    Stabilized Brillouin Laser with Integrated Cavities from Visible to SWIR
  • Swamit Tannu, University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
  • Hailin Wang, University of OregonUnited States
    Continuous Real-Time Magnetometry via Coherent Population Trapping in a NV Center
  • Dalziel Wilson, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt SciencesUnited States
    Quantum Imaging/Sensing with Optomechanical Systems
  • Zheshen Zhang, University of MichiganUnited States
    Quantum-Enhanced Sensing with Centralized and Distributed Entanglement
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