MDID weekly journal club
MDID people’s picks from related publications of last week:
2019
October
1. The odd free surface flows of a colloidal chiral fluid, Nature Physics
2. Evaporation-induced flow around a droplet in different gases, Physics of Fluids
3. Particle and rigidized red blood cell concentration distributions in microchannel flows, Physics of Fluids
4. Fourier transforms for fast and quantitative Laser Speckle Imaging, Scientific Reports
5. Laser speckle imaging of flowing blood: A numerical study, PHYSICAL REVIEW E
6. Strategies for volumetric imaging with a fluorescence microscope, Optica
7. Fiber bundle image restoration using deep learning, Optics Letters
8. Tunable Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov shifts, Optics Communications
9. A method for the reconstruction of multifocal structured illumination microscopy data with high efficiency, Scientific Reports
10. Aberration-free multi-plane imaging of neural activity from the mammalian brain using a fast-switching liquid crystal spatial light modulator, Biomedical Optics Express
11. Opto-thermal oscillation and trapping of light absorbing particles, Optics Express
12. Effect of depletion forces on the morphological structure of carboxymethyl cellulose and micro/nano cellulose fiber suspensions, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
13. Optical Imager Poised to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Dry Eye Disease,
14. Strategies for volumetric imaging with a fluorescence microscope, Optica
15. Digital holography free of 2π ambiguity, using coherence modulation, Optics Letters
16. Y-Net: a one-to-two deep learning framework for digital holographic reconstruction, Optics Letters
17. A method for the reconstruction of multifocal structured illumination microscopy data with high efficiency, Scientific Reports
18. Electrically Conductive Thin Films Derived from Bulk Graphite and Liquid–Liquid Interface Assembly, Advanced Materials Interfaces banner
19. Clinical Potential of Immobilized Liquid Interfaces: Perspectives on Biological Interactions,
20. Frequency-dependent higher-order Stokes singularities near a planar elastic boundary: Implications for the hydrodynamics of an active microswimmer near an elastic interface, PHYSICAL REVIEW E
21. A facile liquid/liquid interface method to synthesize graphyne analogs, Chemical Communications
22. Fast crystallization of rotating membrane proteins, PHYSICAL REVIEW L
23. Formation of self-propelling clusters starting from randomly dispersed Brownian particles,
25. Pattern Generation and Information Transfer through a Liquid Liquid Interface in 3D Constitutional Dynamic Networks of Imine Ligands in Response to Metal Cation Effectors, American Chemical Society
26. Self-Assembly of Charge-Containing Copolymers at the Liquid− Liquid Interface, American Chemical Society
27. Nanorod−Surfactant Assemblies and Their Interfacial Behavior at Liquid−Liquid Interfaces, American Chemical Society
28. Assembly and electrochemistry of carbon nanomaterials at the liquid-liquid interface, Electrochimica Acta
29. Reversible Aggregation and Dispersion of Particles at a Liquid–Liquid Interface Using Space Charge Injection, Advanced Materials Interfaces banner
30. Role of protein conformation and weak interactions on γ-gliadin liquid-liquid phase separation, Scientific Reports
31. Micrometric size measurement of biological samples using a simple and non-invasive transmission interferometric set up, Optics Express
32. Enhancement of spatial resolution in digital holographic microscopy using the spatial correlation properties of speckle patterns, OSA Continuum
33. Y-Net: a one-to-two deep learning framework for digital holographic reconstruction, Optics Letters
34. Phase-sensitive interferometry of decorrelated speckle patterns, Scientific Reports
35. Tip Crack Imaging on Transparent Materials by Digital Holographic Microscopy, journal of imaging
36. Bubbles nucleating on superhydrophobic micropillar arrays under flow, Soft matter
37. Computational models for active matter,
38. anipulation of a Micro-object Using Topological Hydrodynamic Tweezers, PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
39. Choosing a laser for laser speckle contrast imaging, Scientific Reports
40. Strategies for volumetric imaging with a fluorescence microscope, Optica
41. Measuring light transport properties using speckle patterns as structured illumination, Scientific Reports
42. Color single-pixel digital holography with a phase-encoded reference wave, Applied Optics
43. Label-free dynamic imaging of mitochondria and lysosomes within living cells via simultaneous dual-pump photothermal microscopy, Biomedical Optics Express
44. Fiber bundle shifting endomicroscopy for high-resolution imaging, Biomedical Optics Express
45. Dual wavelength digital holographic imaging of layered structures, Optics Communications
46. Convective dispersion of particles in a segmented flow, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS
November
1. Rotating oil droplets driven by motile bacteria at interfaces, Soft Matter
2. 3D Super-Resolution Reconstruction Using Microsphere-Assisted Structured Illumination Microscopy, institute of electronic and electrical engineers
3. Iterative phase retrieval for digital holography: tutorial, Journal of the Optical Society of America A
4. Acoustic Behavior of a Dense Suspension in an Inhomogeneous Flow in a Microchannel, PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
5. Hybrid surfaces combining electropolymerization and lithography: fabrication and wetting properties, Soft Matter
6. Measuring Absolute Cell Volume Using Quantitative-Phase Digital Holographic Microscopy and a Low-Cost, Open-Source, and 3D-Printed Flow Chamber, Optics and Photonics
7. Spatial Multiplexing Technique for Improving Dynamic Range of Speckle Correlation based Optical Lever, Scientific Reports
8. Phase-shifting digital holographic microscopy with an iterative blind reconstruction algorithm, Applied Optics
9. A volumetric display for visual, tactile and audio presentation using acoustic trapping, Nature
10. Super-low-power optical trapping of a single nanoparticle, Optics Letters
11. Harmonic and subharmonic waves on the surface of a vibrated liquid drop, PHYSICAL REVIEW E
12. Three-dimensional microscopic imaging through scattering media based on in-line phase-shift digital holography, Applied Optics
13. A lateral super-resolution imaging method using structured illumination without phase shift, Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering
14. Improving the space-bandwidth product of structured illumination microscopy using a transillumination configuration, Applied Physics
15. Three-dimensional microscopic imaging through scattering media based on in-line phase-shift digital holography, Applied Optics
16. Numerical investigation of photonic nanojets generated from D-shaped dielectric microfibers,
17. Quantitative differential phase microscopy based on structured illumination,
18. Photonic nanojet mediated Raman enhancement: Vertical Raman mapping and simple ray matrix analysis, Raman Spectroscopy
19. Thermodynamic cost of a shortcuts-to-isothermal transport of a Brownian particle, PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
20. Label-free difference super-resolution microscopy based on parallel detection, Applied Optics
21. Off-axis digital holographic microscopy with divided aperture, Optics and Lasers in Engineering
22. Nonequilibrium Reshaping of Polymersomes via Polymer Addition, ACS Nano
23. Space division multiplexing in standard multi-mode optical fibers based on speckle pattern classification, Scientific Reports
24. Diffusiophoresis of active colloids in viscoelastic media, Soft Matter
December
1. Expansion of the FOV in speckle autocorrelation imaging by spatial filtering, Optics Letters
3. Self-assembly of amphiphilic polymers of varying architectures near attractive surfaces, Soft Matter
4. Microfluidic Systems for Droplet Generation in Aqueous Continuous Phases: A Focus Review, Langmuir
5. Super-resolution Raman imaging, Nature Methods
6. Multiwavelength-selective phase-shifting digital holography without mechanical scanning, Applied Optics
7. Multi-directional bubble generated streaming flows, Ultrasonics
8. High performance metalenses: numerical aperture, aberrations, chromaticity, and trade-offs, Optica
9. Fast diffraction-limited image recovery through turbulence via subsampled bispectrum analysis,Optics Letters
10. Experimental and numerical investigation of the interaction between blast wave and precrack in a defected material, Applied Optics
11. Laparoscopic diffuse reflectance spectroscopy of an underlying tubular inclusion: a phantom study, Applied Optics
12. Multiplex protein-specific microscopy with ultraviolet surface excitation, Biomedical Optics Express
13. Smartphone epifluorescence microscopy for cellular imaging of fresh tissue in low-resource settings, Biomedical Optics Express
14. Model of the light sword intraocular lens: in-vitro comparative studies, Biomedical Optics Express
15. 3D rotational motion of an endocytic vesicle on a complex microtubule network in a living cell, Biomedical Optics Express
16. Chip-Based Optical Sensor Detects Cancer Biomarker in Urine, The Optical Society
17. Researchers Capture Moving Object with Ghost Imaging, The Optical Society
18. Quantum Light Improves Sensitivity of Biological Measurements, The Optical Society
19. Self-assembly of amphiphilic polymers of varying architectures near attractive surfaces, Soft Matter
20. Cross-sectional focusing of red blood cells in a constricted microfluidic channel, Soft Matter
21. The physico-chemistry of adhesions of protein resistant and weak polyelectrolyte brushes to cells and tissues, Soft Matter
22. Conformational dynamics and phase behavior of lipid vesicles in a precisely controlled extensional flow, Soft Matter
23.Temporal super-resolution imaging inspired by structured illumination microscopy,
24. Phase resolved characterization of nanoscale features in optical microstructures, Infoscience EPFL
25. Revisit to comparison of numerical reconstruction of digital holograms using angular spectrum method and Fresnel diffraction method, Journal of Optics
26. Phase resolved characterization of nanoscale features in optical microstructures, Infoscience EPFL
2020
January
1. The odd free surface flows of a colloidal chiral fluid, Nature Physics
2. Evaporation-induced flow around a droplet in different gases, Physics of Fluids
3. Particle and rigidized red blood cell concentration distributions in microchannel flows, Physics of Fluids
4. Fourier transforms for fast and quantitative Laser Speckle Imaging, Scientific Reports
5. Laser speckle imaging of flowing blood: A numerical study, PHYSICAL REVIEW E
6. Strategies for volumetric imaging with a fluorescence microscope, Optica
7. Fiber bundle image restoration using deep learning, Optics Letters
8. Tunable Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov shifts, Optics Communications
9. A method for the reconstruction of multifocal structured illumination microscopy data with high efficiency, Scientific Reports
10. Aberration-free multi-plane imaging of neural activity from the mammalian brain using a fast-switching liquid crystal spatial light modulator, Biomedical Optics Express
11. Opto-thermal oscillation and trapping of light absorbing particles, Optics Express
12. Effect of depletion forces on the morphological structure of carboxymethyl cellulose and micro/nano cellulose fiber suspensions, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
13. Optical Imager Poised to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Dry Eye Disease,
14. Strategies for volumetric imaging with a fluorescence microscope, Optica
15. Digital holography free of 2π ambiguity, using coherence modulation, Optics Letters
16. Y-Net: a one-to-two deep learning framework for digital holographic reconstruction, Optics Letters
17. A method for the reconstruction of multifocal structured illumination microscopy data with high efficiency, Scientific Reports
18. Electrically Conductive Thin Films Derived from Bulk Graphite and Liquid–Liquid Interface Assembly, Advanced Materials Interfaces banner
19. Clinical Potential of Immobilized Liquid Interfaces: Perspectives on Biological Interactions,
20. Frequency-dependent higher-order Stokes singularities near a planar elastic boundary: Implications for the hydrodynamics of an active microswimmer near an elastic interface, PHYSICAL REVIEW E
21. A facile liquid/liquid interface method to synthesize graphyne analogs, Chemical Communications
22. Fast crystallization of rotating membrane proteins, PHYSICAL REVIEW L
23. Formation of self-propelling clusters starting from randomly dispersed Brownian particles,
25. Pattern Generation and Information Transfer through a Liquid Liquid Interface in 3D Constitutional Dynamic Networks of Imine Ligands in Response to Metal Cation Effectors, American Chemical Society
26. Self-Assembly of Charge-Containing Copolymers at the Liquid− Liquid Interface, American Chemical Society
27. Nanorod−Surfactant Assemblies and Their Interfacial Behavior at Liquid−Liquid Interfaces, American Chemical Society
28. Assembly and electrochemistry of carbon nanomaterials at the liquid-liquid interface, Electrochimica Acta
29. Reversible Aggregation and Dispersion of Particles at a Liquid–Liquid Interface Using Space Charge Injection, Advanced Materials Interfaces banner
30. Role of protein conformation and weak interactions on γ-gliadin liquid-liquid phase separation, Scientific Reports
31. Micrometric size measurement of biological samples using a simple and non-invasive transmission interferometric set up, Optics Express
32. Enhancement of spatial resolution in digital holographic microscopy using the spatial correlation properties of speckle patterns, OSA Continuum
33. Y-Net: a one-to-two deep learning framework for digital holographic reconstruction, Optics Letters
34. Phase-sensitive interferometry of decorrelated speckle patterns, Scientific Reports
35. Tip Crack Imaging on Transparent Materials by Digital Holographic Microscopy, journal of imaging
36. Bubbles nucleating on superhydrophobic micropillar arrays under flow, Soft matter
37. Computational models for active matter,
38. anipulation of a Micro-object Using Topological Hydrodynamic Tweezers, PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
39. Choosing a laser for laser speckle contrast imaging, Scientific Reports
40. Strategies for volumetric imaging with a fluorescence microscope, Optica
41. Measuring light transport properties using speckle patterns as structured illumination, Scientific Reports
42. Color single-pixel digital holography with a phase-encoded reference wave, Applied Optics
43. Label-free dynamic imaging of mitochondria and lysosomes within living cells via simultaneous dual-pump photothermal microscopy, Biomedical Optics Express
44. Fiber bundle shifting endomicroscopy for high-resolution imaging, Biomedical Optics Express
45. Dual wavelength digital holographic imaging of layered structures, Optics Communications
46. Convective dispersion of particles in a segmented flow, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS
February
1. Clusterization of self-propelled particles in a two-component system. Physical Review E
2. Digital holographic microscopy measures underwater microorganism, SPIE
3. Scaling down quantitative phase imaging, Nature Photonics
4. Diffuse Speckle Contrast Analysis (DSCA) for Deep Tissue Blood Flow Monitoring, Biomedical Engineering
5. Quantitative phase imaging by wide-field interferometry with variable shearing distance uncoupled from the off-axis angle, Optics Express
6. Cusp-artifacts in high order superresolution optical fluctuation imaging, Biomedical Optics Express
7. Inverse scattering for reflection intensity phase microscopy, Biomedical Optics Express
8. Single exposure lensless subpixel phase imaging: optical system design, modelling, and experimental study, Optics Express
9. Common-path multimodal three-dimensional fluorescence and phase imaging system, SPIE
10. On the Fingerprinting of Software-Defined Networks, IEEE
11. Label Free Quantitatitve Phase Imaging of Cellular Structures, Biophysical Journal
13. Experimental analysis of submicrometer optical intensity distributions after an opaque disk, Applied Optics
14. Correction: Cross-sectional focusing of red blood cells in a constricted microfluidic channel, Soft Matter
15. Microsphere-assisted interferometry with high numerical apertures for 3D topography measurements, Applied Optics
16. Cross-sectional focusing of red blood cells in a constricted microfluidic channel, soft Matter
March
1. A lab in the pocket, Nature Reviews Materials
2. High-entropy ceramics, Nature Reviews Materials
3. Deep optical imaging within complex scattering media, Nature Reviews Physics
4. Rapid mesoscale volumetric imaging of neural activity with synaptic resolution, Nature Methods
5. Localization microscopy at doubled precision with patterned illumination, Nature Methods
6. Long-term in vivo imaging of Drosophila larvae, Nature Protocols
7. Opto-thermoelectric pulling of light-absorbing particles, Light: Science & Applications
8. Adaptive optics in laser processing, Light: Science & Applications
9. Three-dimensional imaging of integrated circuits with macro- to nanoscale zoom, Nature Electronics
10. Synopsis: Tracking Forces with Sound, Physical Review Letters.
11. Contact and macroscopic ageing in colloidal suspensions, Nature Materials
12. Topotaxis of active Brownian particles, PHYSICAL REVIEW E
13. Brownian dynamics for the vowel sounds of human language, PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
14. Nonequilibrium physics in biology, REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS
15. Measurement of intensity and polarization beatings in the interference of independent optical fields, PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
16. Collective dynamics of random Janus oscillator networks, PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
17. Sound waves move matter, PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
18. Arrested states in persistent active matter: Gelation without attraction, PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH
19. Active matter in a viscoelastic environment, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS
20. Surface jets and internal mixing during the coalescence of impacting and sessile droplets, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS
21. Dynamics and flow characterization of liquid fountains produced by light scattering, PHYSICAL REVIEW FLUIDS
22. Manipulation of Nanodroplets via a Nonuniform Focused Acoustic Vortex, PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
23. Structured-light 3D surface imaging: a tutorial, Advances in Optics and Photonics
24. Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Drag Forces in Micromechanical-Beam Arrays, PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
25, Fundamentals of 3D imaging and displays: a tutorial on integral imaging, light-field, and plenoptic systems, Advances in Optics and Photonics
26. Fabrication of aspherical polymeric lenses using tunable ferrogel molds, Applied Optics
27, Unibody microscope objective tipped with a microsphere: design, fabrication, and application in subwavelength imaging, Applied Optics
28. Superlensing microscope objective lens, Applied Optics
29. SPUD: simultaneous phase unwrapping and denoising algorithm for phase imaging, Applied Optics
30. Super-resolution optical mapping of floating macroalgae from geostationary orbit, Applied Optics
31. Shear-unlimited common-path speckle interferometer, Optics Letters
32. Microfluidic-based linear-optics label-free imager, Lab on a Chip
33. Wide-field, high-resolution lensless on-chip microscopy via near-field blind ptychographic modulation, Lab on a Chip
34. Tunable fiber-tip lens based on thermo-optic effect of amorphous silicon, Chinese Optics Letters
35. Photonic nanojets generated by single microspheres of various sizes illuminated by resonant and non-resonant focused Gaussian beams of different waists, Journal of the Optical Society of America B
36. Self-Assembly of Colloidal Molecules based on Host-Guest Chemistry and Geometric Constraints, Langmuir
37. Active matter, microreversibility, and thermodynamics,
38. Friction properties of superhydrophobic ridges, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
39. Activity-modulated phase transition in a two-dimensional mixture of active and passive colloids, The European Physical Journal E
40. Fabrication of solvent transfer-induced phase separation bijels with mixtures of hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanoparticles, Soft Matter
41. Probing particle heteroaggregation using analytical centrifugation, Soft Matter
42. Label-free optical imaging in developmental biology [Invited], Biomedical Optics Express
43. Concepts for structured illumination microscopy with extended axial resolution through mirrored illumination, Biomedical Optics Express
44. Light field reconstruction from scattered light using plenoptic data, Journal of the Optical Society of America A
45. Application of speckle interferometry to the mechanical characterization of a biopolymer sample, Applied Optics
46. Fourier ptychography: current applications and future promises, Optics Express
47. Optical Tweezers in Studies of Red Blood Cells, Cells
48. Seeing through multimode fibers with real-valued intensity transmission matrices,
April
1. All-optically phase-induced polarization modulation by means of holographic method, Scientific Reports
2. Experimental optical trapping of micro-particles with Frozen Waves,
3. Measuring cell displacements in opaque tissues: dynamic light scattering in the multiple scattering regime, Biomedical Optics Express
4. Readout of fluorescence functional signals through highly scattering tissue, Nature Photonics
5. Extendable, large-field multi-modal optical imaging system for measuring tissue hemodynamics, Biomedical Optics Express
6. Swarm Hunting and Cluster Ejections in Chemically Communicating Active Mixtures, Scientific Reports
7. Imaging the emergence of bacterial turbulence using light-powered Escherichia coli,
8. Dynamic light scattering arising from flowing Brownian particles: analytical model in optical coherence tomography conditions., Journal of Biomedical Optics
9. AnDi: The Anomalous Diffusion Challenge,
10. Diffraction-unlimited imaging based on conventional optical devices, Optics Express
OPSI colloquiums
November 2021
Professor Jochen Guck
Jochen Guck studied physics in Würzburg and received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. In 2002 he joined the Institute of Soft Matter Physics at the University of Leipzig as a research assistant. In 2007 he joined the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge as a lecturer, where he later became a reader. In 2012, Guck was appointed Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Cellular Machines at the Biotechnology Center of the TU Dresden and served as its Executive Director. Since October 1, 2018, he has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. Since August 2020 he holds the professorship for Biological Optomechanics at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
His research centers on exploring the physical properties of biological cells and tissues, and their importance for cell function and behavior. He also develops novel photonic, microfluidic and scanning-force probe techniques for the study of these optical and mechanical properties. The ultimate goal is utilizing this insight for novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
His work has been recognized by several awards, amongst them the Young Scientists Award in Biomedical Photonics of the DKFZ Heidelberg, the Cozzarelli Award of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), the Cozzarelli Award, the Paterson Medal of the Institute of Physics (UK) and an Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship in 2012.
October 2021
Dr. Valeria Garbin
Dr. Valeria Garbin did her MSc in Physics (2003) at the University of Padova and her PhD (2007) at the University of Trieste in Italy. She was a Rubicon fellow in the Physics of Fluids group at the University of Twente (2007-2009), and a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania (2009-2012), before starting her research group at Imperial College London in 2012. She joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at TU Delft in 2019 as an Associate Professor. Valeria has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant, was the 2018 recipient of the McBain medal (RSC/SCI), and the 2020 recipient of the Soft Matter Lectureship (RSC).
Her research areas include microscale transport phenomena in soft and biological matter to develop innovative solutions for sustainable processes and product, drug delivery, bioprocessing, and advanced materials. She is also interested in the behavior of soft materials under flow. In these research studies, the technologies such as high-speed video microscopy, microfluidics, acoustofluidics, small-angle X-ray scattering, optical tweezers, acoustical tweezers, and other fluidic and imaging techniques are incorporated.
September 2021
Professor Cather Simpson
Professor Simpson's research interests lie with the fundamental photodynamics of molecules in the condensed phase. She and her students use ultrafast laser spectroscopy to study rapidly evolving molecules as they convert light to more useful forms of energy.
Professor Cather Simpson earned a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies - Echols at the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Medical Sciences at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow.
During her PhD studies, she became increasingly interested in understanding and exploiting the fundamental interactions of light with molecules. After a Department of Energy Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, she joined Case Western Reserve University in 1997 to pursue this research.
In the Chemistry Department at CWRU, she earned tenure, was promoted to Associate Professor and started the Center for Chemical Dynamics. Along with her laser research, she fostered innovation in undergraduate teaching, women in science, and ethics in education and research.
In 2007, Professor Simpson joined The University of Auckland to take on a new challenge - to establish and direct the a new multi-user Photon Factory. Her appointment is held jointly in Chemistry and Physics.
The core mission of the Photon Factory is to bring the rich versatility of high-tech, short laser pulses to NZ academic and industry innovators. The facility has grown rapidly since it opened in 2010 - they now have over twenty students and employees who work on dozens of academic and commercial projects. These range from evaluating the photobehaviour of improved solar energy harvesting molecules to fabricating photomasks for microfluidic chip production. Their activities include a recent spin-off company to make a novel cell sorting chip.
August 2021
Professor M. Suhail Zubairy
Prof. Zubairy's research interests include quantum optics and laser physics. He has been interested in quantum optical applications to quantum computing and quantum informatics. He has also been interested in quantum state measurement of the radiation field and sub-wavelength atom localization. His other interests include coherent atomic effects and quantum thermodynamics. He is the co-author of two books, one on Quantum Optics and the other on Quantum Computing Devices. Recently he published a book on Quantum Mechanics for Beginners.
Prof. Zubairy received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1978 working under the supervision of Prof. Emil Wolf. He held research and teaching appointments at the Optical Sciences Center of the University of Arizona and the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of New Mexico before joining the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan in 1984. He served as Professor of Electronics and the founding Chairman of the Department of Electronics at the Quaid-i-Azam University. In 2000 he joined Texas A and M University where he is presently a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics.
He has received many honors including the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, the Outstanding Physicist Award from the Organization of Islamic Countries, the Abdus Salam Prize in Physics, the International Khwarizmi Award from the President of Iran, the Orders of Hilal-e-Imtiaz and Sitara-e-Imtiaz from the President of Pakistan, and the George H. W. Bush Award for Excellence in International Research. He is an elected member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.
July 2021
Professor Onofrio M. Maragò
Onofrio M. Maragò studied Physics in Pisa and Oxford. In 2002 he joined the CNR-IPCF, co-founding the Nano-Soft Lab. His research interests span from optical tweezers and optical manipulation, characterization of micro and nanoparticles, atoms, and Bose-Einstein condensates. More generally he has been working on the mechanical interaction of light and matter for applications in nanoscience, atomic physics, and soft matter. He co-authored the first textbook on optical tweezers (Jones, Maragò, Volpe, "Optical tweezers: Principles and applications", Cambridge University Press, 2015). Onofrio is an active senior member of the Optical Society of America, the European Physical Society, and Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti. He serves as Advisor for the OSA Student Chapter and Young Minds group in Messina and as a member of the Doctoral School in Physics of the University of Messina.
June 2021
Professor Juergen Czarske
Juergen Czarske studied electrical engineering and physics and obtained his PhD degree and the Venia Legendi from Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. From 1986 to 1991 he was funded with a scholarship of the company Siemens AG and worked in their research and development laboratories in Munich. From 1991 to 1996 he was employed as scientific member and assistant of the professor at the Leibniz University. From 1995 to 2004 he was as Postdoc responsible for the metrology development in the Laser Center Hannover (LZH e.V.). As visiting scholar he has conducted research in Japan (NTT) and USA (MIT, Bell Labs, Stanford, Virginia Tech, NASA, CalTech) from 1996 to 2001. Since 2004 he is C4 professor based at TU Dresden. Since January 2016, Prof. Czarske is Director of Institute of Circuits and Systems. His awards include the 1996 AHMT Measurement Technique Prize, a 2008 international Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize, a 2014 Reinhart Koselleck Project of German Research Foundation and the 2019 Joseph Fraunhofer Award and Robert M. Burley Prize of The Optical Society (OSA), recognizing research accomplishments in optical engineering. Prof. Czarske is associate editor of Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, elected member of Saxon Academy of Science in Leipzig, the Scientific Society for Laser Technology (WLT) and board member of German Society of Applied Optics (DGaO) and German Association of Laser Anemometry (GALA), as well as advisor of Student Chapter Dresden of SPIE. Prof. Czarske has conducted more than 800 talks and papers, especially about 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals, over 100 invited talks and he holds over 20 patents. Prof Czarske is Life Fellow of OSA and SPIE, Fellow of EOS and senior member of IEEE. Together with his employees and students he has formed the laboratory MST to a renowned institution for computational laser and ultrasound-based measurement systems. Over 60 scientific prizes and honors have been awarded to students and employees of the laboratory.
Prof. Czarske is the inaugural recipient of the Laser Instrumentation Award 2020 from the IEEE Photonics Society.
May 2021
Professor Giancarlo Pedrini:
Professor Giancarlo Pedrini received his MS degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) in 1982 and his PhD degree in Optical Sciences from the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) in 1990. He joined the Institut für Technische Optik at the University of Stuttgart in 1991. His research areas include: digital holography, vibration analysis, shape measurement, non-destructive testing, measurement of the elastic parameters of biological samples, endoscopy, and phase retrieval.
April 2021
Professor Artur Carnicer:
Artur Carnicer is a full professor of Optics at the University of Barcelona.
He is mainly interested in the development of techniques that requires the use of highly focused electromagnetic beams. Moreover, he has worked in a variety of topics in the field of information optics involving digital holography, optical security, and applications of integral imaging.
March 2021
Professor Donna Strickland:
Professor Donna Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification with Gérard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the time. They published this Nobel-winning research in 1985 when Strickland was a PhD student at the University of Rochester in New York state. Together they paved the way toward the most intense laser pulses ever created. The research has several applications today in industry and medicine — including the cutting of a patient’s cornea in laser eye surgery, and the machining of small glass parts for use in cell phones.
Strickland was a research associate at the National Research Council Canada, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a member of technical staff at Princeton University. In 1997, she joined the University of Waterloo, where her ultrafast laser group develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations.
Strickland was named a Companion of the Order of Canada. She is a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Premier’s Research Excellence Award and a Cottrell Scholar Award. She received the Rochester Distinguished Scholar Award and the Eastman Medal from the University of Rochester. Strickland served as the president of the Optical Society (OSA) in 2013 and is a fellow of OSA, the Royal Society of Canada, and SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics). She is an honorary fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering as well as the Institute of Physics. She received the Golden Plate Award from the Academy of Achievement and holds numerous honorary doctorates.
Strickland earned a PhD in optics from the University of Rochester and a B.Eng. from McMaster University.
February 2021
Professor Gerd Leuchs:
Professor Gerd Leuchs serves as an OSA Director at Large for a three year term, from 2020-2022. He is the Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, and an adjunct professor within the physics department of the University of Ottawa. After 15 years in academic research at the Universities of Cologne, Munich and at JILA, Boulder, Colorado, he worked at a Swiss optics company for five years before becoming full professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His scientific work includes quantum beats, photo-electron angular distributions in multi photon ionization, quantum noise reduced and entangled light beams and solitons in optical fibres, quantum communication protocols, focusing light beams and nanophotonics.
For five years, Gerd Leuchs led the German gravitational wave detection group (1985-1989). He has been a Visiting Fellow of JILA, Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Heisenberg Fellow of the German Science Foundation, Visiting Professor at the Australian National University, at the University of Adelaide and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is member of the German Physical Society, the German Society for Applied Optics, the European Physical Society and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and Fellow of the Institute of Physics, of The Optical Society (OSA), and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary degrees from the Danish Technical University and Saint Petersburg State University.
In 2005, he received the Quantum Electronics Prize from the European Physical Society, and in 2018, the Herbert Walther Prize jointly awarded by OSA and the German Physical Society (DPG). He won an advanced grant from the European Research Council, a mega-grant from Russia as well as a Julius-von-Haast Fellowship award from the Royal Society of New Zealand. With his research, Gerd Leuchs is contributing to the field of quantum technology. He is member of a number of advisory boards for quantum technology application and innovation in Germany and abroad. Over the years, he served on several OSA committees.
January 2021
Dr. Kok-Sing Lim:
Kok-Sing Lim received his B.Eng in Telecommunication from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya in 2008 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the same university in 2012. Currently, he is with Photonics Research Center, University of Malaya.
His research interests include Fiber Bragg Grating, Optical Measurement and Instrumentation, Spatial Division Multiplexing Technology and Medical Laser Devices.
He is the associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, a corporate member of Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), a registered Professional Engineer (Telecommunication) with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) and a member of IEEE as well as OSA. He is the winner of ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award in 2020.
December 2020
Dr. Benedetta Marmiroli:
Benedetta Marmiroli works at the Austrian SAXS beam-line outstation at Elettra Synchrotron in Italy and is with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Austria. She is also collaborating with Elettra in the management of the Deep X-ray lithography beam-line.
She got her master in Materials Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the University of Ferrara, both in Italy.
Her scientific interests involve the interdisciplinary combination of micro-fabrication and characterization techniques, both for the construction of micro-fluidic devices as new sample environment and for the development of novel materials for applications in chemistry and biology.
November 2020
Professor Miguel Alonso:
Miguel A. Alonso is a professor at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, since 2003. Currently he is also with the Institut Fresnel and the Ecole Centrale in Marseille, France as part of A*MIDEX Chair of Excellence program.
He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has been Associate Editor and Deputy Editor for Optics Express, Chair of Spotlight on Optics, Associate Editor for Optica, and currently serves as the Editor in Chief for Optics Letters.
Professor Alonso’s research is on mathematical aspects of wave propagation, in particular on the description and applications of beams with structured intensity and polarization distributions, optical coherence, and the connection between the ray and wave models of light.
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