PROGRAM

Senior Researcher at IEOS, National Research Council in Naples (Italy). She works on the development of Raman/SERS imaging tools for applications in biomedicine. She received several awards including the special “Young Scientist Award” from the CNR (2016) and from the Italian Society of Physics, SIF (2022) for her studies in Biomedical Imaging. Since 2020, she is vice-coordinator of the advanced light microscopy node of Euro-bioimaging ERIC Infrastructure in Italy.

Associate Professor at Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) and principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant ATTOSTRUCTURA on “Structured attosecond pulses for ultrafast nanoscience”, Carlos’ interests focus in the ability to generate structured laser pulses for their application in attosecond science. Recipient of the EPS-QEOD Fresnel Prize in 2019 for fundamental aspects and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize In Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics 2021.

She is a Professor and vice-President of the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan. She works on optical frequency combs, ultrafast optics and optical metrology. She has chaired various CLEO sub-committees and is currently a LASE Symposium Chair of Photonics West. She is ICO vice-President since 2021, member of the Science Council of Japan, director of Laser Society of Japan (LSJ), and a Fellow of Optica, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, and LSJ.

Prof. M. Maaza is the current incumbent of the UNESCO UNISA-ITLABS-NRF Africa Chair in Nanosciences. He is a fellow of the African Academy of Science, the European Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Science of India, the Islamic Academy of Sciences & the Royal Society of Chemistry-London. He has the African Union Nkwame Nkrumah award for Excellence in Science & Technology & the Galileo-Galilei award by the International Commission for Optics (ICO).

Prof Sonja Franke-Arnold holds the Chair of Quantum Optics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow and is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics with over 25 years’ of experience in atom and quantum optics. She is fascinated by the nature of light, especially its topological structures and its interaction with atoms. Her team has developed this work towards several applications in funded collaborations with optical and bio-medical companies.

Zouheir Sekkat is Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Sciences of Mohammed V University and the director of the Optics and Photonics Centre of the Moroccan Foundation MAScIR of the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic at Benguerir. He pioneered interfacing smart materials with optics and received several prizes, including the Elsevier prize for the most cited paper of Morocco, and the prize of the Moroccan ministry of research.