AICOPL2026 | Optics Conference | Photonics | Lasers | Lisbon | Portugal

Prof. Dieter Bimberg

CIOMP of CAS, Changchun and TU Berlin, Germany

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Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He held for 7 years a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of NanoPhotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he was appointed as executive director of the “Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics” at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, a Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, Vice-President of the International Artificial Intelligence Association and a honorary member of the Ioffe Institute of the RAS. He is recipient of many important international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Oyo Buturi and MOC Awards of the Japanese Society of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG (the highest German physics award), to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St. Petersburg Alferov University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 71 patents and patent applications, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 69,000 and his Hirsch factor is 115 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructure based photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Prof. Yuri S. Kivshar

Australian National University, Australia

Title: Mie-tronics and metaphotonics

Yuri Kivshar received PhD degree in 1984 in Kharkov (Ukraine). He left the Soviet Union in 1989 and after several visiting positions in Europe, he settled in Australia in 1993. His research interests include nonlinear physics, metamaterials, and nanophotonics. He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science since 2002, and also Fellow of Optica, APS, SPIE, and IOP. He received many awards, including 2022 Max Born Award (Optica, USA) and 2025 ZEISS Research Award (Germany).

Prof. Fumio Koyama

Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

Title: VCSEL Photonics Prospectives: Optical Interconnects and Sensing

Fumio Koyama received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in physical electronics from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, 1982 and 1985, respectively. Since 2023, he has been Professor Emeritus, Head of the Surface Emitting Laser Photonics Research Unit at the same institute (presently Institute of Science Tokyo). His research interest includes high-speed VCSEL photonics, photonic integrated devices, 3D optical sensing and LiDAR. For more than 40 years, Fumio Koyama has been one of leading researchers whose work contributed to VCSEL photonics and single-mode lasers for broadband optical communications. He received various awards, including the IEE Electronics Letters Premium in 1985 and in 1988, the 1988 Marubun Scientific Award, the 2004 Ichimura Award, the 2007 MEXT Prize for Science and Technology, the 2008 IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the 2012 Izuo Hayashi Award from JSAP, the 2015 Tokyo Metropolitan Government Award, the 2017 Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Award, the 2018 Okawa Prize, 2019 Optica Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award, the 2024 Hirose Prize, 2024 IEEE Nick Holonyak, Jr. Medal for Semiconductor Optoelectronic Technologies (co-recipient) and 2024 IEICE Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award. He is Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow, Honorary Member of IEICE, Fellow of Optica and Fellow of Japan Society of Applied Physics. He was elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2025.

Prof. Daan Lenstra

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

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Daan Lenstra (Amsterdam, 1947) is theoretical physicist (M.Sc., University of Groningen, 1972; Ph.D., Delft University of Technology, 1979). He researched topics in quantum optics, condensed matter, semiconductor diode lasers, nonlinear dynamics in optical systems, analogies between optics and microelectronics, optical phase conjugation, all-optical ultrafast signal processing and organic laser diodes. Prof. Em. Lenstra is now with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology. His research involves topics in nonlinear dynamics of integrated semiconductor lasers and organic diode lasers. Daan Lenstra (co)authored more than 500 publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. He (co)edited 10 books and supervised 25 PhD students.

Prof. Huiyun Liu

University College London, UK

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Huiyun Liu received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Semiconductor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in November 2001. Subsequently, he joined the EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies at Sheffield University. In 2007, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and commenced his academic career as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL. In 2012, he was promoted to Chair Professor of Semiconductor Photonics at UCL. His current research interests encompass the nanoscale engineering of low-dimensional semiconductor structures utilizing Molecular Beam Epitaxy, with a focus on the development of novel optoelectronic devices such as lasers, detectors, solar cells, and modulators. He has authored over 500 scientific papers and holds several patents in the fields of Silicon Photonics and quantum dot technology.

Prof. Boris Malomed

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Title: Basic fractional models and solitons in optics

I was born in Minsk (Belarus). I had received MS in physics from the Belorussian State University (Minsk) in 1977, PhD in theoretical physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1981, and the Doctor of Sciences degree (habilitation) in theoretical physics from the N. N. Bogoliubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kiev) in 1989. Till 1991, I was a senior researcher at the Institute for Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Since 1991, I was an Associate Professor, and since 1998 a Full Professor at the Tel Aviv University. Since 2015, I am a holder of a personal research chair "Optical solitons" funded by the Tel Aviv University. I have published 1,200+ papers and four books. The total number of citations to my publications exceeds 56,800. My h-index is 91 (Web of Science) / 93 (Scopus)/ 108 (Google Scholar). I am an editor of four major international journals: Physics Letters A, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Scientific Reports, and PLOS ONE, and an Editorial Board member of Journal of Optics, Symmetry, Photonics, Optics Communications, and Chaos. I have been an advisor to 31 MS students, 14 PhD students, and 11 postdocs. I am a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (recently renamed to Optica), and a Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Nonlinear Sciences. In 2025, I have received the NSC (Nonlinear Science & Complexity) Lagrange award for lifetime achievement in Nonlinear Physical Science.

Prof. Martin Booth

University of Oxford, UK

Title: Adaptive laser manufacturing of advanced photonic devices

Prof Martin Booth is chair in Optical and Photonic Engineering at the University of Oxford. His research involves the development and application of adaptive optical methods in microscopy, laser-based materials processing and biomedical imaging. In particular, his group have developed numerous implementations of adaptive optics for aberration correction in high and super resolution microscopes. He has held Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC Research Fellowships and in 2016 received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. In 2014 he was awarded the International Commission for Optics Prize. He was appointed Professor of Engineering Science in 2014 and Chair in Optics and Photonics in 2023. He is a fellow of SPIE, Optica, and the Institute of Physics and serves on the board of Optica. He has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, over thirty patents, and has co-founded two spin-off companies, Aurox Ltd and Opsydia Ltd.”

Prof. Alexander Lvovsky

University of Oxford, UK

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Alexander Lvovsky is an experimental physicist. He was born and raised in Moscow and did his undergraduate in Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1993, he became a graduate student in Physics at Columbia University in New York City. His thesis research, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sven R. Hartmann, was in the field of coherent optical transients in atomic gases. After completing his Ph. D. in 1998, he spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, and then five years at Universität Konstanz in Germany, first as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, then as a research group leader in quantum-optical information technology. In 2004 he became Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary, and from autumn 2018, a professor at the University of Oxford. Alexander is a past Canada Research Chair, a lifetime member of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Optical Society and a winner of many awards – most notably the International Quantum Communications award, commendation letter from the Prime Minister of Canada and the Emmy Noether research award of the German Science Foundation. His work has been featured by CBC, NBC, Wired, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, TASS and even Daily Mail.

Prof. Leonid Glebov

University of Central Florida, USA

Title: Volume holographic elements in photo-thermo-refractive glass

Leonid Glebov got his Ph.D. in Physics (major in Optics) from State Optical Institute, Leningrad, USSR (1976). He has been affiliated with that institute up to 1995. Since 1995 Dr. Glebov has been at CREOL/ The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida as a Research Professor. He has published a book and more than 400 papers in scientific journals and holds 16 US patents. The main directions of his research are optical properties of glasses, holographic optical elements, and lasers controlled by these elements. Dr. Glebov is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (Frontiers in Glass Technology Award), SPIE (Denis Gabor Award in Holography), Optical Society of America, and National Academy of Inventors. He is a founder of OptiGrate Corporation (1999) that produces holographic optical elements.

Prof. Yasuhiko Arakawa

University of Tokyo, Japan

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Yasuhiko Arakawa (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1975, 1977, and 1980, respectively. In 1980, he joined The University of Tokyo, as an Assistant Professor and became a Full Professor in 1993. He is currently a specially-appointed Professor at Institute for Nano-Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo. His main research interests include physics, growth, and photonics application of quantum dots. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including ISCS Quantum Devices Award, Leo Esaki Award, IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Award, Fujiwara Award, Prime Minister Award, Medal with Purple Ribbon, IEEE David Sarnoff Award, C& C Award, ISCS Heinrich Welker Award, OSA Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, Japan Academy Prize, IEEE Junichi Nishizawa Medal, and URSI Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal. He was selected as a Person of Cultural Merit in 2023. He is also a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and Fellows of Optica, JSAP, and IEICE.

Prof. Halina Abramczyk

Lodz University of Technology, Poland

Title: Laser optics and molecular spectroscopy in cancer research

She's a full professor at the Lodz University of Technology, founder and director (1992-2023) of the Laboratory of Laser Molecular Spectroscopy. Her research focuses on developing diagnostic methods for early cancer detection using Raman spectroscopy, Raman molecular imaging, and femtosecond laser spectroscopy.

Some of her notable achievements include

• Awards and Honors:
o Fulbright Award
o Marie Curie Chair at Max Born Institute, Berlin
o President of the Polish Fulbright Alumni Association (2013-2021)
o Featured in various international scientific communities
• Research and Publications:
o Over 240 publications, including 140 JCR scientific articles
o Authored books like "Introduction to Laser Spectroscopy"
o Published papers on molecular spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy, and biomedical diagnostics
• Professional Affiliations:
o Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Molecular Liquids (1992-present)
o Board member, European Molecular Liquids Group (1992-2015)
o Member, Scientific Reports (Nature) editorial board (2018-present)

Professor Abramczyk has delivered numerous plenary and invited lectures globally and has collaborated with various international institutions, including the Max Born Institute , Cambridge University, the University of Arizona. Her work has significantly contributed to the development of cancer research.

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