The Speakers
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Birgit Stiller - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light - Germany
Yale University - USA
Daniel Blumenthal - University of California Santa Barbara - USA
Alejandro Fainstein - Centro Atómico Bariloche - Argentina
Senior researcher and Professor at Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro in Bariloche, Argentina. Previously Associate Researcher at CNRS in France Telecom, Paris, and Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institut in Stuttgart. Member of the Argentina National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences. Received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Office of Naval research-Global (USA), and the Konex Foundation and the Science Ministry of Argentina.
Christopher Poulton - University of Technology Sidney - Australia
Thiago Guerreiro - Pontifical Catholic University Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Sunil Bhave - Purdue University - USA
Clivia Sotomayor Torres - ICN2 - Spain
Avi Zadok - Bar-Ilam University- Israel
Dr. Avi Zadok joined Bar-Ilan University, Israel, in 2009, and he is Full Professor since 2017. His research group is working on optical fiber sensors, opto-mechanical interactions, nonlinear optics, and integrated silicon-photonic circuits. Dr. Zadok is the co-author of 190 papers in scientific journals and proceedings of international conferences. He received an ERC Starter Grant in 2015 and an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2020. Dr. Zadok was the Chair of the Israel Young Academy in 2020. He is member of the Israel National Council for Research and Development, and he has been recently elected to the class of 2024 Optica Fellows. Dr. Zadok was the organizer of WOMBAT 3 in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2019. He has been the Chair of the WOMBAT Steering Committee between 2019-2022.
Simon Gröblacher- TU Delft - The Netherlands
William Renninger - University of Rochester - USA
Will Renninger is currently an Associate Professor of Optics and Physics at the University of Rochester. Previously he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Applied Physics at Yale University advised by Peter Rakich investigating photon-phonon interactions. He received his PhD degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University advised by Frank Wise in the area of ultrafast nonlinear optics.
Andrea Bragas - University of Buenos Aires - Argentina
Andrea Bragas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, School of Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in the field of Nanophysics and Nanotechnology. She did her PhD at UBA in the field of near field optics, pioneering studies in laser-assisted microscopies and near field-enhancement in plasmonics. She later moved to Ann Arbor to do his postdoc at the University of Michigan, working on solid state physics and ultrafast optics, where among other things they achieved the experimental demonstration of entanglement of three electrons in a crystalline material (three qubits) after the passage of a light pulse. Her group in Buenos Aires carries out a wide variety of fundamental and applied research ranging from unravelling the interaction of light with matter at the nanoscale to developing ultrasensitive sensors, efficient sources of optical harmonic generation, plasmonic photocatalysts for water remediation, and mechanical nano-resonators. Current interest: nanophotonics; nanophononics; time-resolved optical spectroscopies; plasmonics; dielectric nanoantennas; metamaterials; 2D materials. Among other distinctions, she's got 2023 Georg Forster Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Michael Vanner - Imperial College