Invited Speakers

As in previous years, EOSAM 2025 will feature high-level invited speakers, who will take the stage at the conference in Delft, on 24–28 August 2025.
Below a list of all confirmed invited speakers, more information can be found under each topic.

TOM-Optical Materials

Monika Fleischer, University Tubingen (DE): Plasmonic nano-antenna arrays for position-resolved single-fluorophore spectroscopy
Nicolò Maccaferri, Umea University (SE): Ultrafast phenomena at the nanoscale
Ambra Gianetti, CNR Florence (IT): Oligonucleotide switches designed for diagnostics and therapeutics applications

TOM-Ultrafast Phenomena

Regina Gumenyuk, Tampere University (FI): Power scaling of optical vortices
Hanieh Fattahi, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (DE): Femtosecond Fieldoscopy for sensitive label-free spectro-microscopy
Stefan Haessler, CNRS – Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (FR): Lightwave-Controlled Relativistic Plasma Mirrors At kHz Repetition Rate

TOM-Optical Fiber Technology

Filipe Marques Ferreira, University College London (UK): Maximising Optical Fibre Capacity: Advances in Spatial Multiplexing and Optimised Transmission
Ann Margareth Rosa Brusin, Politecnico di Torino (IT): Machine learning for accelerating multi-band optical communication systems optimization
Wilfried Blanc, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INPHYNI (FR): Fiber with a pearl earing

TOM-Applications of Optics and Photonics

Luís Coelho, INESCTEC (PT): Enhancing Optical Sensing with Nanocoatings for Advanced Chemical and Biological Detection
Rosa Ana Perez-Herrera, UPNA, Universidad Publica de Navarra (ES): Optical fibre-based microdisplacement sensors fabricated using an ultrafast laser-assisted etching method
Andre Gomes, Leibniz-IPHT (DE): Super-resolution STED microscopy through a holographic multimode fibre endoscope
Martina Delgado Pinar, University of Valencia (ES): to be announced

TOM-Quantum Polaritonics

Luis Martín-Moreno, Universidad de Zaragoza (ES): Ultra-confined Light and Ultra-Strong Coupling Regime with phonon polaritions
Luca Sortino, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE): Ultrathin polaritonics in van der Waals metasurfaces
Line Jelver, University of Southern Denmark (DK): Nonlinear plasmonics in nanoribbon heterostructures

TOM-BioPhotonics and Biosensors

Sjoerd Stallinga, TU Delft (NL): Computational Methods in Super-resolution Microscopy
Dimitrii Tanese, CNRS-Institut de la Vision (FR): Spatio-temporal light shaping for neuronal circuits investigation
Boris Mizaikoff, Ulm University & Hahn-Schickard (DE): Mid-Infrared Biophotonics for Exhaled Breath Analysis: Potential and Challenges

TOM-Nanophotonics

Serge Meimon, ONERA (FR): Ultrafast wavefront shaping for dynamic complex media
Arthur Goetschy, Institut Langevin, ESPCI Paris (FR): Shaping wave propagation in complex media: a new radiative transfer paradigm
Femius Koenderink, AMOLF, University of Amsterdam (NL): Linear and nonlinear resonant metasurface scatterometry for sensing and metrology

TOM-Nonlinear and Quantum Optics

Cristina Masoller, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES): Experimental characterization of optical feedback and current modulation effects on the spatial coherence of a semiconductor laser
Elizaveta Semenova, Technical University of Denmark (DK): to be announced
Dario Ballarini, CNR-NANOTEC (IT): to be announced
Jan Klaers, University of Twente (NL): to be announced

TOM-Adaptive and Freeform Optics

Stefan Kuiper, TNO Technical Sciences (NL): Adaptive Secondary Mirror development at TNO
Simon Thibault, University Laval (CA): AI – Assisted Optical Design: A New Era
Martijn Anthonissen, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL): Inverse methods for design in nonimaging optics