Speakers
Research and industry presentations
Laurent Vivien
Which perspectives for silicon in photonics
Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (C2N, Palaiseau, France)
Laurent Vivien, is an expert on Si Photonics, optoelectroncis and nanotechnology and lead the research on hybrid integration based on novel devices. He has published over 450 international peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, holds 8 patents and has supervised > 20 PhD and 10 post-docs. In 2015, he got an ERC grant on strained Si Photonics. He is also an elected Fellow of OSA, EOS and SPIE. He regularly serves as a Chair of EOS, OSA, IEEE and SPIE conferences on photonics and optoelectronics.
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Massimo Vassalli
Integrating optics and nanomechanics to study cellular mechanosensitivity
University of Glasgow (UK)
Dr. Massimo Vassalli is a reader in biomedical engineering at the University of Glasgow (UK). His general research interest include mechanotransduction (transformation of physical forces into biologically relevant signals) and mechanobiology. He also develops microscopy and spectroscopy tools to image and manipulate biological objects at the level of cells and molecules (nanoengineering).
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Jess Wade
Chiral materials and their application in optoelectronic devices
Imperial college London (UK)
Dr. Jess Wade is a post-doc at Imperial College London (UK). Her research interests include material science, chiral materials and light polarisation. Her current work is focused on organic electronics in the solid-state physics group at ICL. She develops and characterises light-emitting polymer thin films. She has contributed to various public engagement projects in STEM and is commited to tackling systemic bias on Wikipedia.
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Pablo Artal
Optics of the eye in the peripheral retina: from myopia to cataracts
Voptica, University of Murcia (Spain)
Prof. Pablo Artal is the Director of the Optics Research Lab at the University of Murcia (Spain). His research interests are the optics of the eye and retina and the development of optical and electronic imaging techniques to be applied in vision, ophthalmology and biomedicine. He has pioneered innovative and significant advances in the methods for studying the optics of the eye and has contributed substantially to the understanding of what limits human visual resolution. He is the co-founder and CEO of Voptica, a company specialised in the commercialisation of eye diagnostic devices based on adaptive optics.
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Gabrielle Thomas
The Power of Photons - on the path to solve society's greatest problems with photonics
M Squared Lasers (Berlin, Germany)
Dr. Gabrielle Thomas is an Innovation Ambassador for M Squared Lasers in Berlin, Germany, and an academic visitor in the Photonics Group at Imperial College (London). M Squared is a photonics and quantum technology company, dedicated to bring innovation in the field by connecting research labs and companies. Gabrielle was one of the 2019 OSA Ambassadors, with a role of sharing her experience and perspectives with students and early career profesional in the fields of optics and photonics.
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Phil Marsden
The business of imaging
Unitive Design and Analysis (London, UK)
Dr. Phil Marsden is a managing director and owner of Unitive Design and analysis, a company providing design and critical design evaluation services to a wide range of sectors focussing on healthcare and biotechnology. The company's primary expertise include ionising radiation, X-ray, visible and IR camera systems, laser and optical oscillator technology, embedded closed-loop control systems, distributed control and compute systems. Phil Marsden had been trained as an experimental quantum physicist and has over 20 years of photonics and electronics design experience.
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Irina Larina
Biophotonic investigation of early embryonic development
Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, USA)
Dr. Irina Larina is an Associate Profesor at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is the head of a research group focused on the study of developmental and reproductive biology via the development of innovative imaging methods such as 4D Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). Irina's research interests are biomedical imaging, cardiovascular sciences, cell and developmental biology and human disease.
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Francesca Palombo
Unlocking the potential of light scattering spectroscopy in biomedicine
University of Exeter (UK)
Prof. Francesca Palombo in an associate professor of biomedical spectroscopy at the School of Physics, University of Exeter (UK), an affiliate investigator of the Living Systems Institute, and honorary researcher at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. She is interested in molecular-level physical and chemical aspects of biological systems as well as their implications in disease onset and progression. Her recent work focuses on development of Brillouin light scattering (BLS) spectroscopy and imaging, as well as on correlative approaches primarily using Raman spectroscopy and IR imaging techniques, applied to biomedical sciences with potential for clinical translation.
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Joint outreach/career development session
On Wednesday morning, we will have a joint session with the members of the second student-led conference. A perfect occasion to learn how to talk about science and answerquestions you may have about your future career.
Sadie Jones
Doing physics outreach is life changing
University of Southampton (UK)
At the start of her PhD in Astrophysics, Dr. Sadie Jones had done very little science outreach work; she was shy and hated any form of public speaking. But now her job is the 'Astronomy Public Engagement Leader', so public engagement, outreach and public speaking is now her fulltime job. In this talk Sadie will explain how doing outreach during her PhD studies totally transformed her career and her self-confidence. She will also talkabout how members of her outreach team have used their new science communication skills to secure jobs in data science and PR industries.
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John Barnes
Your career in industry
Entangled Positions (Cardiff, UK)
Mr. John Barnes is a specialist recruiter/headhunter working in the technology sector since 2004. He founded Profecta Associates in 2014 and has recently created Entangled Positions.
He spent 10 years focusing on software development and architecture which laid the ideal foundations to evolve into a specialist supplier of recruitment services to the scientific arena.
He works predominantly with quantum & AMO physicists. Matching people with the skills, knowledge and potential needed to power the quantum 2.0 revolution with the companies making the technology that the most exciting new developments of the future will be built upon.
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