Speakers

Plenary Speakers

• Alexandre Aubry, (Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris, PSL University) - Active and Adaptive optics 
• Ralf Bauer (University of Strathclyde) - Novel and super-resolution microscopy
  
• Jens Biegert (ICFO, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology) - Ultrafast and strong light-matter interactions
• Paola Borri (Cardiff University) – Integrated photonics & photonic systems
• Unė Būtaitė (University of Exeter) - Optical Trapping and Manipulation
  
• Ulysse Chabaud (École Normale Supérieure - PSL, France) - Quantum Information and Foundations
• Jan Christoph Thiele (University of Oxford) – Biophotonics
• Krishna Coimbatore Balram (University of Bristol) - Optical Materials for Applications in Quantum Technology 
• Kishan Dholakia (University of St Andrews) - Optical Group 125th Anniversary Session
• Ken Grattan (City University of London) - Optical Group 125th Anniversary Session
• Andreas Gritsch (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) - Quantum Communications
• Domagoj Kos (UKAEA) – Optics and photonics in nuclear fusion
• Lindsay LeBlanc (University of Alberta) - Quantum Optics 
• Amy Jane MacLachlan (University of Strathclyde) - IR and THz photonic technology
• Stuart McPherson - Optical Group 125th Anniversary Session
• Bethan Nichol (Oxford University) - Quantum Metrology
• Niels Madsen (Swansea University) - Quantum technologies for fundamental physics
• Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer (University of Birmingham) – Medical applications of light
• Rupert Oulton (Imperial College London) - Nonlinear Optics with Metasurfaces
• Helen Parker (National Institute of Health, Washington, USA) - Medical applications of light 
• Jonathan Pritchard (University of Strathclyde, UK) - Quantum Computation
• Callum Littlejohns (University of Southampton) – Integrated photonics & photonic systems
• Dave Rowe (University of Southampton) - Waveguide and fiber optic devices and sensors
• Chris Rowlands (Imperial College London) - Novel and super-resolution microscopy
• Luca Sapienza (University of Cambridge) – Nanophotonics & nanoscale quantum optics
• Tom Siday (University of Birmingham) - Nonlinear photonics
• Joe Smith (University of Bristol) – Nanophotonics & nanoscale quantum optics
• Sang Soon Oh (Cardiff University) - Metamaterials and Plasmonics
• Robert Thompson (Heriot-Watt University) – Waveguide and fiber optic devices and sensors
• Sarah Thomas (Imperial College London) - Quantum dots, nanocrystals, and low dimensional materials
• Michael Trupke (Austrian Academy of Sciences) - Quantum Optics
• Kevin Weatherill (Durham University) - Quantum Metrology
• Jon Willmott (University of Sheffield, PyrOptik Instruments) - Advances in optical metrology and measurements
• Giacomo Valtolina (Fritz-Haber Institut, Max Planck Gesellschaft) - Quantum Optics
  
• Ventsislav Valev (University of Bath) - Optical Group 125th Anniversary Session
• Lei Xu (Nottingham Trent University) - Metamaterials and Plasmonics
• Huabing Yin (University of Glasgow) – Biophotonics