Speakers and Topics

Dr. Ursula Gibson

2019 OSA President

Professor of Physics

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Ursula Gibson was on the faculty at the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, and is now at the Physics department at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Applied Physics at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the Chemistry Department of Dartmouth College, and served as the 2019 President of the Optical Society, OSA.

Her research on optical materials has been wide ranging, including properties of polymers, protein crystals and semiconductors, with an emphasis on limited dimension structures such as thin films and waveguides.

Dr. Zenghu Chang

Pegasus and Distinguished Professor of Physics, Optics & Photonics

CREOL - The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States

Zenghu Chang is a University Trustee Chair, Pegasus and Distinguished Professor at the University of Central Florida, where he directs the Institute for the Frontier of Attosecond Science and Technology. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America. Chang graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China with a bachelor’s degree in 1982. He then earned a master’s and a doctorate at the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1985 and 1988 respectively. From 1991 to 1993, Chang visited the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory sponsored by the Royal Society fellowship. He worked at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan as a research fellow and a research scientist after 1996. Then joined the physics faculty at Kansas State University in 2001 and later became the Ernest & Lillian Chapin Professor. In 2010, Chang started the joined faculty position in CREOL and physics department at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Zenghu Chang’s notable contributions include the development of Polarization Gating and Double Optical Gating for generating broadband attosecond pulses, as well as PROOF and a Deep Neuron Network scheme for characterizing such pulses. His group conducted the first experimental demonstration of high-order harmonic cutoff extension in the XUV region using long wavelength driving lasers and generated the 53-as X-ray pulses reaching the carbon K-edge in 2017 with an Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier centered at 1.7 μm. Chang has published 195 papers and has given 209 invited presentations, seminars and colloquia. He is the author of the book “Fundamentals of Attosecond Optics.”

Dr. Keisuke Goda

Professor

Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Keisuke Goda is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo in Japan, an adjunct professor in the Institute of Technological Sciences at Wuhan University in China, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA in the US. He obtained a BA degree from UC Berkeley summa cum laude in 2001 and a PhD from MIT in 2007, both in physics. At MIT, he worked on the development of gravitational-wave detectors in the LIGO group which led to the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. After several years of work on ultrafast optical imaging and microfluidics at Caltech and UCLA, he joined the University of Tokyo as a professor. His research group focuses on the development of serendipity-enabling technologies based on molecular imaging and spectroscopy together with microfluidics and computational analytics to push the frontier of science. In 2018, he and his colleagues launched CYBO, Inc., a startup based on their development of intelligent image-activated cell sorting (Cell 175, 266, 2018). He currently serves as an associate editor of APL Photonics (AIP Publishing), an associate editor of Cytometry Part A (Wiley), and Conference Chair of SPIE Photonics West. He has published >250 papers (Nature, Cell, Nature Photonics, Nature Physics, PNAS, etc.), filed >30 patents, and received numerous awards and honors including WIRED Audi Innovation Award, JSPS Prize, and Japan Academy Medal. For his global leadership and contribution to the photonics community worldwide, he was selected by World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2014.

Dr. Rosalía Serna Galán

Research Professor

Instituto de Óptica "Daza de Valdés", Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Dr. Rosalía Serna is a Research Professor of CSIC (Spanish Research Council) at the Instituto de Optica (Madrid, Spain) since 2009. She is a project leader and founding memeber of the Laser Processing Group (http://lpg.io.csic.es). She is co-author of more than 170 publications and three book chapters in the fields of applied physics, optics, nanotechnology and material science. She has co-authored more than 200 conference contributions, including more than 30 invited talks at major international conferences.

During the last decade she has conducted research in two main topics using laser techniques as a means of nanostructuration to obtain functionalized films for integrated optical applications such as integrated waveguides, optical amplifiers, light emitters and sensors. Within this context one line of current interest is the study of non-conventional nanostructured materials for plasmonics, such as Bismuth nanostructures and in general p-block materials embedded in oxides. The other current line of research is the study of rare-earth doped nanostructures for amplifications and lighting devices.

Dr. Harilaos Ginis

Head of Research Department

Athens Eye Hospital, Glyfada, Greece

Harilaos Ginis is a physicist, active in the field of biomedical physics and in particular physiological optics, ophthalmic devices and vision. He studied Physics in the University of Crete and granted his PhD (related to biomedical technology) from the department of medicine of the University of Crete.

He is currently Head of Research in the Athens Eye Hospital, a leading specialised hospital in Greece. His work is focused on the development of novel diagnostic devices and intraocular implants. His current research interests include optical metrology in the human eye, intraocular lenses, measurement of the mechanical properties of ocular tissues and mathematical modelling of vision.

He is Head of Technical Research of InfiniteVision Optics, Strasbourg, France and Regulatory Affairs manager of EYEPCR B.V. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

He teaches modules in Visual Optics, Image and Signal Processing and Modern Optics in the MSc Program “Vision and Optics” of the University of Crete. In addition, he has given short courses for the MSc program in “Ophthalmic Imaging” of the Democritus University of Thrace as well as for the Master in Optometry and Visual Sciences of the Technical University of Catalunya. He has supervised more than 20 MSc projects as primary supervisor and provided support and practical supervision of the students for 8 PhD projects.

He is author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles (total citations >1400, h-index: 19), inventor or co-inventor of 15 patents in the field of surgical and diagnostic devices for the human eye, and has written several book chapters in the field. Between 2012 and 2018 he was the topical editor (Clinical Vision and Visual Optics) of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics, Image Science & Vision (JOSA A). He has also served as guest editor for special issues of other journals in the field.

Dr. Karina Jiménez García

Researcher & Professor

Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN),

Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico

Karina Jiménez-García is a graduate of Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. She obtained a Doctor of Physical Sciences degree from Centro de Investigación y Estudios del IPN (CINVESTAV, 2012), in Mexico City. During her doctoral studies, Karina conducted a research stay (from 2008 to 2012) in the Laser Cooling and Trapping Group led by Dr. William D. Phillips (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997) at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) in Maryland, United States. She realized experiments on the manipulation of quantum systems with ultra-cold atoms for her doctoral thesis.

During her stay at JQI, Karina participated in the first experimental demonstrations of artificial gauge fields for ultra-cold neutral atoms. The result of these works had a great impact on the scientific community, triggering the rapid development of this field of research. Her doctoral thesis work led her to be a finalist of the "APS-DAMOP Thesis Award" awarded by the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society.

Her interest in mastering different aspects of ultra-cold atomic systems, drove her to continue her research this time through two postdoctoral stays. The first at the University of Chicago in Illinois, United States, where she experimented with ultra-cold mixtures of Lithium and Cesium atoms. The second at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris, France, where she studied ultra-cold systems with internal spin freedom using Sodium atoms.

Karina is an author of more than 16 refereed publications in high-impact journals – including Nature, Nature Physics, Science and Physical Review Letters - which have attracted more than 4400 citations (as of December 2019) according to Google Scholar (h -index 13). Being selected from more than 1000 participants and due to her academic career, Karina was awarded one of the prestigious "L'Oréal - UNESCO For Women in Science" awards granted by UNESCO and the L'Oréal Foundation (Paris, 2016) .

Karina Jiménez-García is currently a Research Professor at CINVESTAV Campus Querétaro and a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI-I). Her areas of interest are: Experimental Physics, Atomic-Molecular and Optical Physics, Quantum Systems Manipulation, Quantum Simulation, Quantum Optics, Bose-Einstein Condensation.

Dr. Tsuneyuki Ozaki

Professor

Centre Énergie, Matériaux, Télécommunications,

Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes, Canada

Dr. Tsuneyuki Ozaki is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), a graduate school near Montreal, Canada. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Tokyo (1998), was Research Associate at the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo (1990 - 2000) and a Research Specialist at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan (2000 - 2003), before joining the INRS as Assistant Professor in 2003. He has served as the Director of the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) (2006 - 2012), an international laser user facility with an array of intense femtosecond lasers. He has been a member of the Board (Treasurer) of the International Committee on Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers (ICUIL) (2008 – 2017), and since 2018 is the Chair of Commission 17 on “Laser Physics and Photonics” of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). His main research interests include high-intensity THz radiation and nonlinear THz optics, intense high-order harmonic generation, and the use of lasers in medicine.

Dr. Óscar Gabriel Rodríguez Herrera

Researcher

Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología (ICAT)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico

Oscar G. Rodríguez-Herrera is Investigador Asociado “C” at the Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He received a BS and an MS in Physics from UNAM, and a PhD in Experimental Physics from the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), where he took a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the end of his PhD. During his time as a postdoc at NUIG, he worked in the development of a polarimetry-based technique for the analysis of specimens with features below the Rayleigh resolution limit and its applications in high resolution optical microscopy. Afterwards, he continued with his academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona, where he worked in image processing, data analysis, electromagnetic modeling, optical coherence, and the development of novel polarimetry techniques and polarimetric data analysis strategies.

Dr. Rodríguez-Herrera specializes in Physical Optics and its applications. His main areas of interest, and expertise, are light polarization, polarimetry, optical coherence, imaging, diffraction, and their applications in material analysis, optical microscopy, the study of the properties of tightly focused electromagnetic fields, and the analysis of biological specimens. His current efforts are in the implementation of variable coherence polarimetry (an optical tomography technique with polarimetric sensitivity), the development of polarimetric optical microscopes for biomedical applications, and the development of polarimetric methods for the analysis of the structure of biological specimens.

He is coauthor of 29 research articles, 10 proceedings papers, and 2 patents. Additionally, he teaches Optics to undergraduate students and a number of courses on Physics, Optics, and Scientific Computer Programming to postgraduate students at UNAM.

Dr. Remy Fernand Avila Foucat

Researcher

Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada (CFATA)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico

Remy Avila obtained his degree in physics in 1993 at UNAM´s Faculty of Sciences. He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Nice, France, obtaining a Ph.D. in 1998 with the congratulations of the jury. Since 1999 he is a researcher at UNAM. He worked for 10 years at the Center for Radiastronomy and Astrophysics, UNAM Campus Morelia and in 2010 he joined the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology (CFATA) at the Juriquilla UNAM Campus. He is currently a senior researcher B and has level III in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). Dr. Avila has conducted long-lasting visits and collaborations at a number of leading research institutions like ICFO, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, to cite but a few. He has served as coordinator of the Bachelor of Technology at UNAM and currently coordinates the postgraduate studies at CFATA. Remy Avila specializes in applied optics. He works in two main research areas: on the one hand, optical turbulence in the atmosphere and its implications in astronomical observations; and on the other hand, the application of infrared optical tweezers in cellular biology. Dr. Remy Avila has received important awards such as the National University Distinction for Young Scholars and the Allen Award from The Optical Society (OSA).

Dr. José Guadalupe Suárez Romero

Researcher

Metrología y Física Aplicada (MFA)

José Guadalupe Suárez-Romero is senior researcher in Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro of Tecnológico Nacional de México in Mechanical Engineering Department, where he gives curses of bachelor, master and doctoral programs. He received his B.S. degree from Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas of Instituto Politécnico Nacional, MEXICO, in 1988. His M.S. degree in Optics in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Optics in 1999, both from Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, MEXICO. He worked at Optics and Radiometric Division at Centro Nacional de Metrología, from 1994 to 2004, where developed two of the national primary standards of MEXICO, between other projects. His research interests include Photometry, Radiometry, Spectrophotometry, Pyrometry and Optical Analysis of Materials, like Mechanical Stress, Mechanics of fluids, between others.

More than hundred courses given to Industry, most of them in colorimetry. He is co-founded of Company Centro de Ingeniería y Tecnología S. C., in 2007. Also co-founder of Company Metrología y Física Aplicada S. A. de C. V. in 2017. The last Company develops optical devices for metrology and gives services of instrument calibrations.

Dra. Aura Higuera Rodriguez

Researcher

Synopsys Photonic Solutions

In 2010 she graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with a bachelor in Telecommunications Engineering. Got her master’s degree in photonics in January 2013 by Friedrich Schiller University of Jena with a thesis on novel optical beam shapes for skin rejuvenation. In January 2013 she started a PhD position at Eindhoven University of Technology in the photonic integration group.

Her research was dedicated to photonic crystal nano-beam lasers, metal gratings, passivation of active semiconductor compounds and the generic technology platform COBRA. In 2017 she started working as JePPIX (broker of III-V materials for PICs) Coordinator in the Photonic Integration Technology Center, where she did BD activities, road-mapping, project lead, marketing and strengthening of the PIC ecosystem. From January 2019 she joined Synopsys Photonic Solutions as Technical Account Manager.

Lucía Gabriela Ciccia

Researcher

CIEG -UNAM, Mexico

PhD in Gender Studies at Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina and graduated in Biotechnology at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQUI). She dedicated two years in Department Research of Nervous System Phisiology at Facultad de Medicina (UBA) as doctoral intern from CONICET. Dr Lucía redirect her work to Feminist Epistology, ending her Phd at Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA). Her tesis centered in critic analysis of neuroscientist speech about sexual differences.

She was part of Instiuto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (IIF-SADAF) since 2014 till 2018. In 2017 she obtained the first mention from Bioethics Award by Foundation Dr. Jaime Roca for his study "The sex and gender as variables in biomedic research and clinical practices". In 2018 she joined at CIEG with the project "The inclusion of gender perspective in the production of biomedical knowledge. Neuroscience and mental disorders".