This year’s workshop is honoured by three invited talks delivered by Prof. Dr. Ad Lagendijk (Univ. of Amsterdam/Univ. of Twente), Prof. Dr. Peter Bienstman (Ghent University) and Dr. Stefano Beri (TE connectivity).
- Prof. Dr. Ad Lagendijk
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Ad Lagendijk received his Ph.D from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. From 1974 to 1981 he worked at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. From 1981 he worked at the University of Amsterdam where he holds a professorship in physics since 1984. In 1987 he also became a department head at the FOM-institute AMOLF. In 2002 Lagendijk and his research group moved to the University of Twente in Enschede. In 2005 he moved back to the FOM-Institute AMOLF with a part of his group, to found the Photon Scattering Group.
Lagendijk gained fame outside physics as the author of columns in a national newspaper and as the author of the Survival Guide for Scientists, a book with advice in the areas of communication and presentation, intended for junior scientists. He actively blogs in Dutch and English.
Professor Ad Lagendijk received the Spinoza Prize of 2002 for his research on the propagation of light in strongly scattering media, a field that according to the jury, he defined himself and brought to maturity both experimentally and theoretically through his research.
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- Prof. Dr. Peter Bienstman
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Peter Bienstman was born in Ghent in 1974. He received a degree in electrical engineering from Ghent University, in 1997 and a Ph.D. from the same university in 2001, at the Department of Information Technology (INTEC), where he is currently an associate professor. During 2001-2002, he spent a year in the Joannopoulos research group at MIT.
His research interests include several applications of nanophotonics (biosensors, photonic information processing ...) as well as nanophotonics modelling. He has published over 90 papers and holds several patents.
He has been awarded a ERC starting grant for the Naresco-project: Novel paradigms for massively parallel nanophotonic information processing.
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- Dr. Stefano Beri
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Stefano Beri received his PhD in Physics from Lancaster University in 2004 with a thesis on the effects of noise on the operation of semiconductor lasers. He later specialized in theoretical and experimental Photonics as a PostDoctoral Fellow at the Technical University Eindhoven and at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. In 2010 he joined the R&D department of the of TE Connectivity as Project Leader.
He is author of more than 20 peer reviewed papers in international journals and more than 50 contributions in international conferences.
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