Committees

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CA – Solid-State Lasers 

Federico Pirzio, University of Pavia, Italy (Chair)
Weidong Chen, Fujian Institute of Research, China
Eric Cormier, Universite de Bordeaux, France
Mariastefania De Vido, LFC, United Kingdom
Martin Divoký, FZU, Czech Republic
Regina Gumenyuk, Tampere University, Finland
Christian Kränkel, IKZ, Germany
Catherine Le Blanc, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, France
Vasili Savitski, Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics, United Kingdom
Anna Suzuki, University of Kyoto, Japan
Sergei Tomilov, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

CB – Semiconductor Lasers 

Sven Höfling, Würzburg University, Germany (Chair)
Yong-Hoon Cho, Kaist, Korea
Paul Crump, FBH, Germany
Tomasz Czyszanowski, Lodz University , Poland
Paolo De Natale, CNR, Italy
Qing Gu, North Carolina State University, USA
Satoshi Iwamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
Jesper Mork, DTU, Denmark
Stephan Reitzenstein, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Qi Jie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Rui Q. Yang, University of Oklahoma, USA

CC – Terahertz Sources and Application 

Giacomo Scalari, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Chair)
Martina Basini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Cristina-Ileana Benea-Chelmus, EPFL, Switzerland
David Burghoff, University of Texas, USA
Sukhdeep Dhillon, ENS, France
Lucy Hale, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mona Jarrahi, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Pernille Klarksov Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Christoph Lange, TU Dortmund, Germany
Marco Peccianti, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Masayoshi Tonouchi, Osaka University, Japan

CD – Applications of Non-Linear Optics 

Christelle Monat, École Centrale de Lyon, France (Chair)
Elise Bailly, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ksenia Dolgaleva, University of Ottawa, Canada
Lucas Erwan, Université de Bourgogne Europe, France
Gardes Frederic, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Sonia Garcia Blanco, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Michał Karpiński, Institute of Experimental ics, University of Warsaw, Poland
Nathaniel Kinsey, Saint Louis University, USA
François Leo, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Carletti Luca, University of Brescia, Italy
Thomas Zentgraf, Paderborn University, Germany

CE – Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterisation 

Christos Riziotis, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece (Chair)
Louise Bradley, Trinity Colege Dublin, Ireland
Sonia Conesa Boj, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Nadège Courjal, Université Louis Pasteur, France
James Gates, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Martina Gerken, University of Kiel, Germany
Francesca Iacopi, Purdue University, USA
Sivashankar Krishnamoorthy, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxemburg
Okihiro Sugihara, Utsunomiya University, Japan
Luca Vincetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Max Yan, Umea University, Sweden

CF – Ultrafast Optical Technologies 

Nicolas Forget, CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, France (Chair)
Cord Arnold, Lund University, Sweden
Jean–Christophe Delagnes, CEA, CNRS, France
Peter Dombi, Wigner Institute, Hungary
Gonçalo Figueira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Tobias Herr, DESY, Germany
Aleksej Rodin, Lithuania, Lithuania
Inigo Sola, University of Salamanca, Spain
Carlo Vicario, PSI, Switzerland
Catherine Yuriko Teisset, TRUMPF Scientific Lasers, Germany
Amelle Zair, King’s College London, United Kingdom

CG – High-Field Laser and Attosecond Science 

Alicia Palacios, Universitad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain (Chair)
Christoph M. Heyl, Helmholtz-Institut Jena & DESY, Germany
Heide Ibrahim, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada
Erik Lötstedt, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Matteo Lucchini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Balazs Major, University of Szeged, , Hungary “
Fabien Quere, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, France
Nina Rohringer , University of Hamnburg & DESY, Germany
Nandi Saikat, Institut Lumière Matière, CNRS, France
Kirsten Schnorr, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Arvinder Shandu, Arizona State University, USA

CH – Optical Sensing and Microscopy

Lyubov Amitonova, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Chair)
Florenta Costache, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS, Germany
Jingjing Jiang, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Francesco Masia, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Ferruccio Pisanello, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Adrian Podoleanu, University of Kent, United Kingdom
Sebastien Popoff, Institut Langevin, CNRS – ESPCI, France
Andreas Tittl, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Aart Verhoef, Texas A&M University, USA
Meritxell Vilaseca, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC, Spain
Stefan Witte, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands

CI – Optical Technologies for Communications and Data Storage 

Sonia Boscolo, VPIphotonics GmbH, Germany (Chair)
Prince Anandarajah, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
Juan Diego Ania Castañón, Institute of Optics – CSIC, Spain
Cristian Antonelli, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Antonella Bogoni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy
Francesco Da Ros, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Massimilano Guasoni, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Dan M. Marom, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ken Mishina, Osaka University, Japan
Emmanuel Seve, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Yifan Sun, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (Chair)

CJ – Fibre and Guided Wave Lasers and Amplifiers 

Laurent Bigot, CNRS – University of Lille, France
Jakub Boguslawski, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
Aleksandr Donodin, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, UK
Heike Ebendorff–Heidepriem, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Almantas Galvanauskas, University of Michigan, USA
Thomas Godin, CORIA, CNRS/University of Rouen Normandy/INSA Rouen, France
Nicoletta Haarlammert, Fraunhofer IOF, Germany
Mustafa Ordu, Bilkent University, Turkey
Federica Poli, University of Parma, Italy
Sze Yun Set, The University of Tokyo, Japan

CK – Micro- and Nano-Photonics 

Anna Peacock, University of Southampton, United Kingdom (Chair)
Laurent Coolen, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), France
Pascal Del’Haye, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Mark Foster, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Bart Kuyken, Ghent University, Belgium
Jelena Notaros, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Claudio Oton, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy
Minhao Pu, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Luca Sortino, Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munchen, Germany
Michael Strain, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow , United Kingdom
Dawn Tan, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

CL – Photonic Applications in Biology and Medicine

Dario Polli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Chair)
Paolo Annibale, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Hilton Barnosa De Aguiar, LKB, Sorbonne Université, France
Francesca Bragheri, CNR – IFN, Italy
Hugh Byrne, Technological University Dublin, Ireland
Paul French, Imperial College London, UK
Thomas Huser, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Chiara Paviolo, CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France
Wesley Sacher, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany
Benjamin Vakoc, Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School, USA
Xiaoming Wei, South China University of Technology, China

CM – Materials Processing with Lasers 

François Courvoisier, CNRS Institut Femto-ST, France (Chair)
Nadezhda M. Bulgakova, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Nathalie Destouches, University of Lyon and University of Saint-Etienne, France
Maria Farsari, FORTH, Greece
Camilo Florian Baron, University Kassel, Germany
Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, CNR – Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Italy
Mangirdas Malinauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Jan Siegel, Instituto de Optica -, Spain
Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Annalisa Volpe, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Leonid Zhigilei, University of Virginia, USA

EA – Quantum Optics and Quantum Matter 

Rinaldo Trotta, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Daniele Bajoni, University of Pavia, Italy
Ed Barnes, Virginia Tech, United States
Francesco Basso Basset, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Pablo Alonso González, University of Oviedo, Spain
Klaus Jöns, Paderborn University, Germany
Margherita Mazzera, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Anna Pappa, TU Berlin, Germany
Emanuele Pelucchi, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Clèment Sayrin, LKB Sorbonne University, France
Elizaveta Semenova, DTU, Denmark

EB – Quantum Information, Communication, and Sensing 

Robert Fickler, Tampere University, Finland
Milena D’Angelo, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Sara Ducci, University Paris Diderot, France
Thomas Gerrits, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Markus Grafe, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Sophie Hermans, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Anand Kumar Jha, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Sven Ramelow, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Martin Ringbauer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Luis Sanchez Soto, Compulense University of Madrid, Spain
Romana Schirhagl, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

EC – Topological States of Light 

Henning Schomerus, Lancaster University, UK
Thomas Christensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Pierre Delplace, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France
Sebastian Klembt, University of Würzburg, Germany
Melanie Lebental, Paris Saclay, France
Natalia Litchinitser, Duke University, USA
Konstantinos Makris, University of Crete, Greece
Hai Son Nguyen, Ecole Centrale de Lyon/CNRS Singapore, Singapore
Andreas Nunnenkamp, University of Vienna, Austria
Mikael Rechtsman, University of Vienna/ Penn State University, USA
Daria Smirnova, Australian National University, Australia

ED – Precision Metrology and Frequency Combs

Lucile Rutkowski, Université de Rennes, France
Esther Baumann, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Birgitta Bernhardt-Schultze, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Benoît Darquié, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
Adam Fleisher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Gianluca Galzerano, National Research Council, Italy
Oliver Heckl, University of Vienna, Austria
Nils Huntemann, PTB, Germany
Helen Margolis, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom
Kaoru Minoshima, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Victor Torres, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

EE – Ultrafast Optical Science 

Michaël Hemmer, JILA, USA
Christian Brahms, Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom
Huseyin Cankaya, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Germany
Aurora Crego Garcia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Eduardo Granados, CERN, Switzerland
Amina Hussein, University of Alberta, Canada
Spencer Jolly, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Giulia Mancini, University of Pavia, Italy
Melanie Müller, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany
Marie Ouillé, Institut d’Optique, France
Anne–Lise Viotti, Lund University, Sweden

EF – Nonlinear Phenomena, Solitions and Self-Organisation

Svetlana Gurevich, University of Münster, Germany
Sylvain Barbay, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Neil Broderick, University of Auckland, New Zealand
German de Valcarcel, University of Valencia, Spain
Simon–Pierre Gorza, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Bryan Kelleher, Department University College Cork, Ireland
Katarzyna Krupa, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Poland
Mathias Marconi, Université Côte d’Azur, France
Pedro Parra Rivas, Universita la Sapienza di Roma, Italy
Auro Perego, Aston university, UK
Maria Richter, University of Rostock, Germany

EG – Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale

Alberto Curto, Ghent University/IMEC, Belgium
Peter Banzer, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Austria
Henri Benisty, Institut d’Optique, France
Joel Cox, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Ivan Fernandez–Corbaton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Alison Funston, Monash University, Australia
Su–Hyun Gong, Korea University, South Korea
Stephanie Kroker, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Kevin MacDonald, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Emilija Petronijevic, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Jorik van de Groep, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

EH – Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Michele Celebrano, Politecnico di milano, Italy
Alessandro Alabastri, Rice university, USA
Andrea Bragas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anne–Laure Baudrion, Universite de Technologie de Troyes, France
Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University, USA
Frank Setzpfandt, Friedrik-Schiller University Jena, Germany
Giuliana Di Martino, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Guillermo Acuna, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Giovanna Palermo, University of Calabria, Italy
Paloma Arroyo Huidobro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Leonardo Menezes, Ludwig-Maximillians Universitat Munchen, Germany

EI – Low-Dimensional Materials for Photonics and Opto-Electronics 

Chiara Trovatello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sanghoon Chae, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Camilla Coletti, NEST and IIT Pisa, Italy
Claudia Gollner, University of Vienna, Austria
Antonija Grubisic Cabo, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Hae Yeon Lee, Rice University, USA
Nicolò Maccaferri, Umeå University, Sweden
Fabian Mooshammer, University of Regensburg, Germany
Veronica Policht, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Lee Rozema, University of Vienna, Austria
Giancarlo Soavi, University of Jena, Germany

EJ – Theoretical and Computational Photonics Modelling

Bruno Romeira, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal
Chaoran Huang, The Chineses University of Hong Kong, China
Antonio Hurtado, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Lorenzo Pavesi, University of Trento, Italy
Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Miguel Soriano, IFISC, Spain
Ripalta Stabile, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Birgit Stiller, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Uğur Teğin, Koç University, Turkey
Angelina Totović, Marvell Technology, USA
Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Belgium

JS1 – New Integrated Photonics Technologies

Co-Chair: Jana Jágerská, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Co-Chair: Ksenia Dolgaleva, University of Ottawa, Canada

JS2 – Computational Optics

Co-Chair: Fabian Maucher, TU Delft, Netherlands
Co-Chair: Ulrich Hohenester, University of Graz, Austria

JS3 – Systems for Field-Deployable Quantum Technologies

Co-Chair: Kevin Gallacher, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Co-Chair: James McGillan, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

JS4 – Photonics for Aerospace

Co-Chairs: TBD

JS5 – Beyond Pulses, Frequency-Modulated and Dynamical Comb Sources

Co-Chairs: TBD