Professor Miriam Vitiello
Miriam Serena Vitiello is Director of Research at the National Research Council, Italy and Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. She pioneered research in Terahertz optics and nano-photonics, providing seminal contributions on the development and applications of THz quantum cascade lasers; THz nanostructured detectors based on semiconductor nanowires, 2D materials and vdW heterosctructures; graphene-based photonics; detectorless near-field THz microscopy.
She is the recipient of several prestigious European and international research grants and multiple awards including the Friedel-Volterra Medal 2020 of the French and Italian physical societies and the Gold Medal of the Pontificia Academy of Science.
Professor Patrice Genevet
Patrice Genevet is a Full Professor at the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado, USA. He is pioneering advancements in nanoscale photonics and optical sciences. His research has redefined fundamental optical principles, notably generalizing the laws of reflection and refraction, which has paved the way for innovations such as flat lenses and broadband metasurfaces. Practical applications of his work include chip-scale wavefront shaping of semiconductor lasers and developing high-speed LiDAR systems critical for autonomous vehicles.
He has been recognized with multiple awards. He leads the ERC Starting and Proof of Concept Grants and promotes the commercialization of metasurface technologies through his startup, FLATLIGHT.
Professor Mark Brongersma
Mark Brongersma is the Stephen Harris Professor of the School of Engineering, a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He pioneered nanoscale optoelectronic devices that harness optical resonances for enhanced performance and new functions. He coined the terms Plasmonics and Mie-tronics for the fields of science and technology that aim to manipulate light with metallic and high-index nanostructures and below the diffraction limit.
Professor Brongersma has translated his research into practice through many industry collaborations. He co-founded a company to fabricate and utilize nanostructures at scale. He received the Walter Gores Award for excellence in teaching and the International Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Physical Sciences. He is a Fellow of OPTICA, MRS, SPIE, and APS.
Dr Jinghua Teng
Jinghua Teng is a Senior Principal Scientist in the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, and an Adjunct Professor in the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also holds a joint appointment in the National Semiconductor Translation and Innovation Center (NSTIC), Singapore.
Dr Teng has extensive experiences in both use-inspired basic research and technology translation through industry collaborations. He has published over 270 journal papers and filed over 40 primary patents with many licensed out or used in industry collaborations. His research interests embrace 2D optoelectronics, nanophotonics, metasurfaces, plasmonics and THz technology. He is an editorial board member of several professional journals, and a Fellow of OPTICA and SPIE.
Professor Andrea Ferrari
Andrea C. Ferrari is professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He founded and directs the Cambridge Graphene Centre and the EPSRC Layered Materials Research Foundry. He is the UK lead for PIXEurope, the European pilot line of photonic chips.
Professor Ferrari is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society, amongst others, and has received numerous awards, including the Royal Society Brian Mercer Award for Innovation and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is the inventor of tens of patents and has founded several start-up companies in the field of lasers and optoelectronics engineering.