CLEO® / Europe – EQEC 2021

• Robert Boyd was born in Buffalo, New York.
• He received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a PhD in physics from the University of California at Berkeley.
• His PhD thesis was supervised by Charles Townes and involved the use of nonlinear optical techniques in infrared detection for astronomy.
• In 1977, Professor Boyd joined the faculty of the University of Rochester
• In 2001, he became the M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics and Professor of Physics

His research interests include studies of “slow” and “fast” light propagation, quantum imaging techniques, nonlinear optical interactions, studies of the nonlinear optical properties of materials, and the development of photonic devices including photonic biosensors.

• Born in Jerusalem, Prof. Nirit Dudovich served as an officer in the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces from 1989 to 1993
• She earned a BSc in physics and computer science from Tel Aviv University in 1996
• She received an MSc and PhD in physics from the Weizmann Institute in 1999 and 2004
• She works at the forefront of laser physics and optics

Some of her most recent research addresses the challenges inherent in using laser light and photon energy to study static and dynamic properties of atoms and molecules, on ultrafast timescales demonstrated a new measurement scheme, frequency-resolved optomolecular gating, which resolves the temporal amplitude and phase of the harmonic emission from excited molecules.

• Irani Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry
• Director, Keck Photonics Cleanroom and O’Brien Nanofabrication Laboratory
• PhD, Applied Physics, minor in Biology, California Institute of Technology.
• BA, Physics, University of Chicago.

• Toshihiko Baba (Member, IEEE) received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively
• He has demonstrated PC-based devices such as slow-light waveguides, high-speed modulators, beam scanners, nanolasers, biosensors and LEDs
• He also fabricated various Si photonics components including the first arrayed waveguide grating
• Member of JSAP, IEICE, and OSA, as well as an Associate Member of the Science Council of Japan

• Fabio Antonio Bovino was employed at Elsag, a Finmeccanica Company, in September 2001 (LEONARDO in January 2016)
• Founder and the chief scientist of Quantum Optics Lab, founder and member of the teaching and scientific board of Second Level Master on Optics and Quantum Information - University of Rome "Sapienza".
• Has participated to national and international research projects financed by MIUR, Italian Ministry of Defense and European Community.
• Author of more than 100 publications in national/international journals and 14 patents in the fields of Foundation of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Information and Computing.
• Highlights are the first demonstration of a quantum cloning machine (2001), the first experiment beyond Bell’s Inequalities for entanglement characterization (2004), the design and the realization of the first Quantum Cryptography Italian product: the Q-KeyMaker® (2010)
• Lecturer at ICTP and at Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for International Culture, where he was, in 2012, Director of course Advances in Nanophotonics.
• Awarded in 2004 and 2012 with FINMECCANICA Innovation Prize, in 2005, 2006 with Elsag Innovation Prize and, in 2008, with Best Patent Prize, in 2010 with Selex-SI Innovation Prize

Martina Havenith holds the chair of Physical Chemistry II at Ruhr-University Bochum. She is the founder and speaker of the Excellence Cluster RESOLV (Ruhr Explores Solvation), granted within the German Excellence Initiative in 2012 and 2018, and the Director of the research building ZEMOS (Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Simulation of Solvent Driv-en Processes). Her research pioneered terahertz (THz) spectroscopy as a sensitive method to study solvation of small solutes and biomolecules.

Matthias Kling graduated in physics from the University of Göttingen in Germany, where he also obtained in PhD in 2002. Between 2007 and 2012, after postdoctoral employments at UC Berkeley (USA) and AMOLF (The Netherlands), he led an Emmy Noether and Heisenberg research group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. Following a brief period as assistant professor at Kansas State University (USA), he was appointed in 2013 to his present position as professor in Ultrafast Imaging and Nanophotonics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in Germany. Since 2019 he holds a co-appointment as Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

Michael Kneissl is a professor of “Experimental Nanophysics and Photonics” at TU Berlin, Germany and holds a dual appointment at the Ferdinand-Braun-Institute (FBH) in Berlin. His research interests include wide bandgap semiconductors and novel optoelectronic devices in particular UV-LEDs and laser diodes. He has co-authored over 400 publications and holds more than 55 patents in the area of group IIInitride device technologies. He is co-founder of UVphotonics NT GmbH and was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to the development of wide bandgap semiconductor laser diodes and ultraviolet LEDs in 2016.

• R. J. Dwayne Miller, FRSC is a Canadian chemist and a professor at the University of Toronto
• His focus is in physical chemistry and biophysics
• Most widely known for his work in ultrafast laser science, time-resolved spectroscopy, and the development of new femtosecond electron sources.
• His research has enabled real-time observation of atomic motions in materials during chemical processes and has shed light on the structure-function correlation that underlies biology

Bill is a Senior Distinguished Scientist with NTT Basic Research Laboratories and the director of it's Research Center for Theoretical Quantum Physics. His research interest range from foundational issues of quantum theory through to quantum information processing and its practical realization. In particular, he has focused on quantum networks and their design. Recently he has been exploring quantum multiplexing and aggregated quantum networks. His is also a fellow of the OSA and APS.

• Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1973, Dr. Narevicius began his career in science by winning the first place in two all-Soviet Union Chemistry Olympiads for high school students, in 1989 and 1990
• Studied at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, earning a BSc summa cum laude in chemistry in 1995 and a PhD, also in chemistry, in 2002
• From 2005 to 2008, he worked and studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin
• Joined the Weizmann Institute faculty as a senior scientist in 2008
• Dr. Narevicius designs experimental methods for slowing down and cooling molecules to explore fundamental questions in chemistry and physics
• Investigates chemical reactions at temperatures several fractions of a degree above absolute zero, when quantum effects become dominant
• Received the Weizmann Institute’s Scientific Council Prize in Chemistry in 2014 and the the Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Excellent Young Scientist Prize in 2014.

Carsten Rockstuhl received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 2004. His work there focused on investigating light fields around micro- and nano-optical structures. After a PostDoc period at AIST in Tsukuba, Japan, he has been since 2005 with the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany, first as a research assistant and later as a Junior Professor. In 2013 he was appointed full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. There, he is heading groups at the Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics and the Institute of Nanotechnology. He works on many aspects in the context of theoretical and computational nano-optics such as nanostructured pho-tonic materials, plasmonics, scattering theory, integrated photonics, quantum optics, and non-linear photonics. Carsten Rockstuhl is a fellow of the Optical Society of America. He serves the community as an editor with multiple journals, e.g., currently as Deputy Editor with Optics Letters. Moreover, he is the coordinate of the EUPROMETA, a doctoral school on Metamate-rials, and is the organizer or co-organizer of various conferences. He is a member of the Karlsruhe School of Optics & Photonics, where he currently acts as the dean of study.

• Ángel Rubio is a Spanish theoretical physicist and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg and Distinguished Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) of the Flatiron Institute research division of the Simons Foundation in New York City.
• Studied physics at the University of Valladolid, which awarded him the Licenciatura in 1988 and a Doctorate of Science in 1991.
• Has completed numerous research stays abroad as a visiting professor, including at the Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés of the École polytechnique in Palaiseau (2000-2001), at the Free University of Berlin (2005 as well as 2006-2007), at the University of Montpellier II (2007) and at the University of California at Berkeley in 2014.

Wolfgang P. Schleich is engaged in research on quantum optics ranging from the foundations of quantum physics via tests of general relativity with light and cold atoms to number theory.

He was educated at the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and studied with Marlan O. Scully at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching. Moreover, he was also a post doctoral fellow with John Archi-bald Wheeler at the University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Schleich is a member of several national and international academies and has re-ceived numerous prizes and honors for his scientific work such as the Gottfried Wilhelm Leib-niz Prize, the Max Planck Research Award, and the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, and the Herbert-Walther Prize. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University.

His textbook, Quantum Optics in Phase Space, has been translated into Russian and a Chinese edition was published in 2010.

Prof Silvia Vignolini studied Physics at the University of Florence, Italy. In 2009, she was awarded a PhD in Solid State Physics at the European Laboratory for non-Linear Spectrosco-py and the Physics Department at the University of Florence. In 2010, she moved to Cambridge as a post-doctoral research associate working in the Cavendish Laboratory and the Plant Science Department. In 2013, she started her independent research becoming a BBSRC David Philip Fellow. Dr. Vignolini is currently an Professor at the University of Cam-bridge in Sustainability and Bio-inspired materials. Her research interest lies at the interface of chemistry, soft-matter physics, optics, and biology. In particular, her research focuses on the study of how natural materials (like cellulose) are assembled into complex architectures within living organisms and how the such materials can be exploited to fabricate a novel class of photonic pigments.

• Linda Young is a distinguished fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and a professor at the University of Chicago’s Department of Physics and James Franck Institute.
• Young is also the former director of Argonne’s X-ray Science Division.
• For her contributions to the field, The Helmholtz Association—Germany’s largest scientific organization—awarded Young the Helmholtz International Fellow Award in 2017.
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, has served on multiple scientific advisory boards.
• Currently chairs the scientific advisory committee for the Photon Science Directorate of the Paul Scherrer Institute and has previously served on the European XFEL, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, and DESY Scientific Councils.