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Michael Feld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Spectral Interferometry in biology and Medicine: Past, Present and Future"
Professor Michael S. Feld was educated at MIT, where he is a Professor of Physics and directs the George R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory. Professor Feld is active in various aspects of laser physics, spectroscopy and biomedicine. His optical physics research spans the fields of molecular and atomic spectroscopy, laser-nuclear interactions and the study of dynamical and radiative processes in atoms and molecules. Much of this research has been conducted at the MIT Laser Research Facility, the center for physical science research using lasers and spectroscopy that he founded in 1979.
Professor Feld is active in the application of lasers, light and spectroscopy to biology and medicine. He directs the Laser Biomedical Research Center at MIT, an NIH-supported center that he founded in 1985. In 1985, he showed that fluorescence could be used to diagnosis atherosclerosis, laying the basis for the field of spectral diagnosis of disease. In 1991, he demonstrated that Raman spectroscopy could be used to analyze biological tissue. In 1998, his group developed the technique of light scattering spectroscopy for measuring the size distribution of epithelial cell nuclei to characterize pre-cancerous change, and in 2001, the method of tri-modal spectroscopy, a clinical technique that combines fluorescence and reflectance for spectral diagnosis. Beginning in 2001, he began exploring the use of optical interferometry to study nanometer length changes and small-scale dynamical processes in biological systems. |
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Ursula Keller (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich)
"Ultrafast lasers: hitting harder, faster and broader"
Ursula Keller joined the ETH faculty in 1993, received 1989 the Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and 1984 the Physics "Diplom" from ETH. She was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey from 1989 to 1993. Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology: ultrafast solid-state and semiconductor lasers, pulse generation in the optical cycle regime, frequency comb stabilization, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) to X-ray generation and attosecond pulse generation using high harmonic generation. She has published more than 270 peer-reviewed journal papers and 11 book chapters and she holds or applied for 17 patents. She was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley in 2006 and at the Lund Institute of Technologies in 2001. She received the OSA Fraunhofer/Burley Prize in 2008, the Philip Morris Research Award in 2005, the first-placed award of the Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize in 2004, and the Carl Zeiss Research Award in 1998. The Thomson Citation Index highlighted her as the third-place top-cited researcher during a decade (1991-1999) in the field of optoelectronics in 2000. She is an OSA Fellow and an elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. |
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Martin Wegener (University of Karlsruhe)
"Photonic Metamaterials: Optics Starts Walking on Two Feet"
After completing his PhD in physics in 1987 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany), he spent two years as a postdoc at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel (U.S.A.). From 1990-1995 he was C3-Professor at Universität Dortmund (Germany), since 1995 he is C4-Professor at Universität Karlsruhe (TH). Since 2001 he has a joint appointment at Institut für Nanotechnologie of Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH. Since 2001 he is also the coordinator of the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) in Karlsruhe. His research interests comprise ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, near-field optics, photonic crystals, and photonic metamaterials. This research has led to various awards and honors, among which are the DFG Leibniz Award 2000, the European Union René Descartes Prize 2005, and the Carl Zeiss Research Award 2006. Since 2006, he is also a member of Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences. |
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Costas Fotakis (IESL-FORTH and University of Crete)
“Micro- and nano processing of materials by ultrafast lasers: From optical to biological and cultural heritage applications”
Costas Fotakis is Director of the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) at FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas) and Professor of Physics at the University of Crete. He is also Director of the European Ultraviolet Laser Facility operating at FORTH, which is currently part of the EU project “LASERLAB”, linking 17 major European laser infrastructures. His research interests include laser spectroscopy, molecular photophysics, laser interactions with materials and related applications for material processing and analysis. He has been chair or co-chair of several major international scientific conferences and member of several EU panels including the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI). He has over 200 publications primarily in the field of photonics and their applications and belongs to the editorial boards of several international scientific journals. He is the 2004 recipient of the “Leadership Award / New Focus Prize” of the Optical Society of America (OSA) “for decade-long leadership of, and personal research contribution to, the field of laser applications to art conservation and leadership in establishing and guiding the scientific excellence of the laser science programs at IESL/FORTH”. He is also Life Member and Fellow of OSA and has been Springer Professor at the University of California Berkeley for 2005-2006. |
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Susana Marcos (Instituto de Optica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid)
ICO Prize winner 2007
"Using optics to understand vision"
Susana Marcos received her MS (1992) and PhD (1996) degrees in Physics from the University of Salamanca (Spain). She carried out her predoctoral research at the Instituto de Optica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain, in the field of physiological optics. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for three years at Stephen A. Burns' lab at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University. She was recipient of a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Human Frontier Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Prof. Marcos is currently a Professor of Research, Profesora de Investigación at the Instituto de Optica in Madrid (Spain). She leads several research grants on visual optics and biophotonics, funded by national and international agencies, as well as international companies. She is the director of the Visual Optics and Biophotonics lab, and supervises the work of several Ph.D Students.
Susana Marcos has pioneered research in novel techniques to assess the optical properties of the ocular optics and the human retina. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed publication (with over 1200 citations), and has been invited to lecture in over 100 international conferences and research centers. Her work has been recognized with several national and international awards, including the Adolph Lomb Medal, awarded by the Optical Society of America, the European Young Investigator Award, from EURHORCs-ESF, and the ICO Prize awarded by the International Commission for Optics.
Susana Marcos served as the Chair of the Applications of Visual Science Technical Group at the Optical Society of America, and is the President of the Visual Sciences Committee at the Spanish Optical Society and an elected Fellow of the European Optical Society. |
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Hideyuki Sotobayashi (Aoyama Gakuin University and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)
ICO Prize winner 2006
"All-band photonic transport system"
Hideyuki Sotobayashi is an Associate Professor of the Aoyama Gakuin University. He received the M.E. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. In 1997, he joined the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), which was reorganized as the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in 2004. He had been a Visiting Scientist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2002 to 2005. Since 2008, he has been an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, the College of Science and Engineering, the Aoyama Gakuin University. He has been engaged in researches on photonic networks, optical communications, ultrafast lasers, photonic processing, and nonlinear optics.
He received the 44th Optics Prize for excellent papers from the Japan Society of Applied Physics in 2002 and the Young Scientist Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan in 2006.
He a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Institute of Electronics and Information Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE), and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). |
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