CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2025 Committees CLEO®/Europe Steering Committee

European Physical Society (EPS):

QEOD Members:

Lukas Gallmann, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (Chair)
Olivier Dulieu, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Orsay, France 
Crina Cojocaru, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Piotr Maslowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
Concita Sibilia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
Massimo Giudici, Université de Côte d’Azur, France (Secretary)
Aleksandra Foltynowicz, Umea University, Sweden
Julien Javaloyes, Universitat de les Illes Ballears, Spain
Uwe Morgner, Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD, Leibniz University, Germany
Nathalie Picqué, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Catarina Vozzi, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Italy
Katia Gallo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Co-opted Members:

Ioachim Pupeza, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Daniele Brida, Université du Luxembourg
Peter Dombi, MTA “Lendület” Ultrafast Nanooptics Group, Hungary
Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 
Staff Members:

Adriana Zerafa, European Physical Society, Mulhouse, France
Milan Milicevic, European Physical Society, Mulhouse, France

IEEE Photonics Society:

Members:
Paul Crump, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut (FBH), Berlin, Germany
David Sampson, University of Surrey, Guilford, United Kingdom
Peter M Smowton, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Staff Member:
Douglas M. Razzano, IEEE Photonics Society, Piscataway, NJ, USA

 

Optica (formely OSA):

Daniele Brida, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Alfred Leitenstorfer, University of Konstanz, Germany 
Joyce Poon, Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany

Staff Members:
Kari Apter, Optica, Los Altos, CA, USA
 

CLEO®/Europe 2025 General and Program Chairs CLEO®/Europe General Chairs:

DANIELE BRIDA, UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG

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CRINA COJOCARU, UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA, SPAIN

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CLEO®/Europe Program Chairs:

CATERINA VOZZI, ISTITUTO DI FOTONICA E NANOTECNOLOGIE, ITALY

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ALESSANDRO TONELLO, UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES, FRANCE

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EQEC 2025 General and Programme Chairs EQEC General Chairs:

ALEKSANDRA FOLTYNOWICZ, UMEA UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN

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Piotr Maslowski Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

Piotr_Maslowski

EQEC 2025 Program Chairs:

ALESSIA PASQUAZI, LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY, UK

Alessia Pasquazi

JENS BIEGERT, THE INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC SCIENCES, CASTELLDEFELS, SPAIN

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CLEO®/Europe-EQEC Local Chair

TBD

CLEO®/Europe 2025 Programme Committees

CA – Solid-state Lasers

ErClara Saraceno, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany (Chair)
Weidong Chen, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, China
Xavier Mateos, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona,  Spain
Richard Paul Mildren, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Tomas Mocek, HiLASE Center of Excellence Dolní, Břežany, Czech Republic
Federico Pirzio, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Vasili Savitski, Fraunhofer, Centre for Applied Photonics, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Takunori Taira, Riken Spring-8 Saitama Japan
Catherine Le Blanc, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, paris, France
Jennifer Hastie, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK.
Eric Cormier, Université de Bordeaux, France

CB – Semiconductor Lasers

Mikhail Belkin, Walter Schottky Institute, Munich, Germany (Chair)
Kevin Williams, TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Frédéric Grillot, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France
Qing Gu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Sven Höfling, Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany
Paolo De Natale, CNR, Florence, Italy
Boon Ooi, KAUST, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Benedikt Schwarz, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Asa Haglund, Chamlers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Qi Jie Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Pierluigi Debernardi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

CC – Terahertz Sources and Applications

Giacomo Scalari, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (Chair)
Francois Blanchard
, Université du Quebec, Québec, Canada
Pernille Klarksov Pedersen
, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Raffaelle Colombelli, Centre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies (C2N), Paris, France
Marco Peccianti, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK
Cristina-Illeana Benea-Chelmus, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Harold Schneider, Institute of Ion-Beam Physics and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany
Masayoshi Tonouchi, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Dmitry Turchinovich
, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Mona Jarrahi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

CD – Applications of Nonlinear Optics

Nathalie Vermeulen, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium(Chair)
Fabio Biancalana
, Australian National University Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
Tal Ellenbogen, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Francois Leo
, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Christelle Monat
, École centrale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Zhipei Sun, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Thomas Zentgraf, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
Nathaniel Kinsey, Virginia University, Richmond, USA
Ksenia Dolgaleva, University of Ottawa, Canada
Michal Karpinski, Institute of Experimental Physics, Univeristy of Warsaw, Poland
Hassan Hafez, Fakultät Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

 

CE – Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterisation

Stavros Pissadakis, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL), Heraklion, Greece (Chair)
Nadege Courjal
, FEMTO-ST, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Max Yan, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Luca Vincetti, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Francesca Iacopi, University of Sydney, Australia
Okihiro Sugihara, Utsunomiya University, Japan
Christos Riziotis, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
Laeticia Petit, Tampere University, Finland
Ardemis Bohossian, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Martina Gerken, Kiel University, Germany
James Gates, University of Southampton, UK

CF – Ultrafast Optical Technologies

Nicolas Forget, Fastlite, Antibes, France (Chair)
Kristina Chang
, NIST, Boulder, US
Ming-Chang Chen
, Institute of Photonics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Takao Fuji, Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
Michael Krueger, Department of Physics and Solid State Institute Technion City, Haifa, Israel
Haim Suchowski, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Amelle Zair
, King’s College London, London, UK
Catherine Yuriko Teisset, TRUMPF Scientific Lasers, Germany
Gonçalo Figueira,Physics Department & IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Matteo Negro,
Cambridge Raman Imaging Ltd, Milano, Italy
Jean Christophe Delagnes, CEA, CNRD, Talence, France

CG – High-Field Laser and Attosecond Science

Nina Rohringer, University of Hamburg @ Luis Roso, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (Chair)
Mathieu Gisselbrecht, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Christoph M. Heyl
, Helmholtz-Institut Jena & DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Heide Ibrahim
, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Varennes, Canada
Matteo Lucchini
, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Balázs Major
, ELI ALPS University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Laszlo Veisz, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Nandi Saikat, Institut Lumière CNRS, France
Erik Löstedt, University of Tokyo, Japan
Alicia Placios, Universitad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Nina Rohringer, University of Hamburg & Desy, Germany

CH – Optical Sensing and Microscopy

Cristian Focsa, University of Lille, Lille, France (Chair)
Sophie Brasselet, Fresnel Institute, Marseille, France
Florenta Costache
, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS, Dresden, Germany
Christoph Haisch, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Jian-Jang Huang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Adrian Podoleanu, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Meritxell Vilaseca, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Francesco Masia, Cardiff University, UK
Ferruccio Pisanello, Istitituo Italianio di Tecnologia, Lecce, Italy
Marek Vlk, UIT Arctic University of Norway, Tromsö, Norway
Lyubov Amintonova, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

CI – Optical Technologies for Communications and Data Storage

Sonia Boscolo, Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kindom(Chair)
Cristian Antonelli
, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
Nicola Calabretta, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Francesco Da Ros
, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Peter Horak
, University of Southampton, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Akihiro Maruta, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Armando Nolasco Pinto
, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Demetri Psaltis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Ionannis Tomkos, University of Patras, Greece
Emmanuel Seve, Nokia Bell Labs, Massy, France
Antonella Bogoni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa, Italy

CJ – Fibre and Guided Wave Lasers and Amplifiers

Jayanta Kumar Sahu, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom (Chair)
Laurent Bigot
, CNRS – University of Lille, Lille, France
Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide, Australia
Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
Nicoletta Haarlammert, Fraunhofer IOP, Jena, Germany
Romain Dauliat, Xlim research Institute, Limoges, France
Jakub Boguslawski, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Sze Yun Set, University of Tokyo, Japan
Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
Federica Poli, University of Parma, Italy
Mustafa Ordu, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

CK – Micro- and Nano-Photonics

Stefano Pelli, CNR-IFAC, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy (Chair)
Giovanna Calò, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
Stéphane Clemmen, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Alejandro Ortega Moñux, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Anna Peacock
, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, , United Kingdom
Minhao Pu
, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Marc Sorel, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Markus A. Schmidt, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
Yasin Ekinci, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
Lan Yang, McKelvey School of Engineering, St Louis, USA

CL – Photonic Applications in Biology and Medicine

Kenneth K. Y. Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Chair)
Martin Booth, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Thomas Huser
, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Dario Polli, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Daniel Razansky
, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Benjamin Vakoc, Mass General Brigham and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Giuseppe Vicidomini
, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Xiaoming Wei
, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Wesley Sacher, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany
Paola Annibale, University of St Andrews, UK
Osnath Assayag, Intelligent Imaging Innovations, Paris, France

CM – Materials Processing with Lasers

François Courvoisier, CNRD Institut Femto-ST, Besançon, France (Chair)
Joern Bonse, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -Prüfung (BAM), Berlin, Germany
Nadezhda M. Bulgakova
, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Jan Siegel, Instituto de Optica, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Nathalie Destouches, Hubert Curien Laboratory, St. Etienne, France, Saint Etienne, France
Leonid Zhigilei, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Charlotteville, USA
Johannes Heitz, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Gert-Willem Roemer,
University of Twente, Twente, Netherlands
Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten, University of Duisburg-Essen, , Germany
Mangirdas Malinauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, CNR, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Milano, Italy

EQEC 2023 Programme Committees

EA – Quantum Optics and Quantum Matter

Hamed Merdji, Ecole Polytechnique, palaiseau, France (Chair)
Aurélia Chénu,
Institute of Physics, Zabgreb, Croatia
Félix Bussières, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain
Hanna Le Jeannic, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Elizaveta Semenova, Weizman Institue, Rehovot, Israel
Yassine Hassouni, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Rosa Tualle Brouri, Université Côte d’Azur, INPHYNI, Nice, France
Mohamed Bourenanne, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Davide Boschetto, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France
Börge Hemmerling, UC Riverside, USA
Gerhard Kirchmair, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Magdalena Stobinska, University of Warsaw, Poland

EB – Quantum Information, Communication, and Sensing

Hugo Defienne, Sorbonne University, Paris, France (Chair)
Sara Ducci
, Univ. Paris Diderot, Paris, France
Thomas Gerrits
, NIST, USA
Luis Sanchez Soto, Compulense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Romana Schirhagl
, Univ. of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Markus Grafe, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Alice Meda, INRIM, Torino, Italy
Robert Fickler, Tampere University, Finland
Federica Villa, Polytechnico di Milano, Italy
Milena d’Angelo, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Sven Ramelov, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

EC – Topological States of Light

Stefan Rotter, Vienna University of Technology, Vienne, Austria (Chair)
Romain Fleury, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Flore Kunst, MPI for the Science of Light, Nürnberg/Erlangen, Germany
Alexander N. Poddubny, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Hannah Price, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Andreas Nunnenkamp, University of Vienna, Austria
Ewold Verhagen, Center for Nanophotonics NWO Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mikael Rechtsman, University of Vienna/ Penn State University, USA
Daria Smirnova, Australian National University, Camberra, Australia
Emil Bergholtz, Stockholm University, Sweden
Pierre Delplace, CNRS, Lyon, France

ED – Precision Metrology and Frequency Combs

Marco Marangoni, Politecnico di Milano and Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Milano, Italy (Chair)
Esther Baumann
, NIST, Boulder, USA
Helen Margolis, National Physical Laboratory, London, UK
Lucile Rutkowski, Univ. Rennes, Rennes, France
Markku Vainio, Univerisity of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Piotr Wcislo,
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
Victor Torres, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Nils Huntemann, PTB, Braunschweig, Germany
Gianluca Galzerano, National Research Council, Milan, Italy
Kaoru Minoshima, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Oliver Heckl, University of Vienna, Austria

EE – Ultrafast Optical Science

Michaël Hemmer, JILA, Boulder, USA (Chair)
Goëry Genty, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Jérôme Kasparian, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Melanie Müller, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany
Valentina Shumakova, Class 5 Photonics GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
Francesco Tani, MPI for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
Giulia Mancini, University of Pavia, Italy
Spencer Jolly, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Amina Hussein, University of Alberta, Canada
Christian Brahms, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

EF – Nonlinear Phenomena, Solitons and Self-organization

Sveltana Gurevich, University of Munster, Germany (Chair)
German de Valcarcel, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Miro Erkintako
, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Katarzyna Krupa
, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Mathias Marconi, Université Côte d’Azur CNRS, Institut de Physique de Nice, Valbonne, France
Bryan Kelleher, Department University College Cork, Ireland
Fabio Baronio, Universita’ di Brescia, Italy
Auro Perego, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
Pedro Parra Rivas, Universita la Sapienza di Roma, Italy
Simon-Pierre Gorza, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Sylvain Barbay, Université Paris Saclay, Palaiseau, France

EG – Light-matter Interactions at the Nanoscale

Mathieu Mivelle, Sorbonne University, Paris, France (Chair)
Paolo Biagioni
, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, italy
Alberto Curto
, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Alison Funston, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Riccardo Sapienza, Imperial College, The Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
Matthew Sheldon
, Texas A&T University, College Station, Texas, USA
Giulia Tagliabue
, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
Niek Van Hulst, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain
Peter Zijlstra, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Joel Cox, University of Southern Denmark, Eindhoven, Denmark

EH – Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Michele Celebrano, Politecnico di Milano, Itlay (Chair)
Alessandro Alabastri, Rice University, Austin, USA
Andrea Bragas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Angela Demetriadou
, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Vincenzo Galdi
, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Maria Kafesaki
, University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece
Alexey Krasavin
, King’s College London and London Centre for Nanotechnology, London, United Kingdom
Andrei Lavrinenko
, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Païvi Törmä, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland
Kosmas Tsakmakidis
, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Costas Valagiannopoulos, Nazarbayev University, “Nur-Sultan, “, Kazakchstan

EI –LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS FOR PHOTONICS AND OPTO-ELECTRONICS

Nicolò Maccaferri, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (Chair)
Klaas-Jan Tielrooij, ICN2, Barcelona, Spain
Chiara Trovatello,
Columbia University, New York, USA
Zeila Zanolli, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Antonija Grubisic Cabo, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Mete Atature, University of Cambridge, UK
Isabella Giertz, University of Regensburg, Germany
Veronica Policht, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, USA
Emanuele Orgiu, INRS, Montreal, Canada

EJ – Theoretical and Computational Photonics Modelling

Fabian Maucher, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (Chair)
Viktoriia Babicheva, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA
Ihar Babushkin, Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
Jörg Götte, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Kathy
Lüdge, University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
Carlos Hernández-García, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Stefan Skupin, CNRS / Université de Lyon, France
Ulrich Hohenester, University of Graz, Austria
Mickael Grech, CNRS / Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
Dario Jukic, University of Zagreb, Croatia

CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 Symposia Committees

JSI – PHOTONICS FOR AI

Bruno Romeira, INL Institute, Braga, Portugal (Co-Chair)
Antonio Hurtado, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (Co-Chair)

JSII - FREE ELECTRON LASERS : TECHNOLOGY & APPLICATIONS

Luca Giannessi, ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy (Co-Chair)
Giuseppe Sansone, University of Freiburg, Germany (Co-Chair)

JSIII - SYSTEMS FOR FIELD-DEPLOYABLE QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES

Kevin Gallacher, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Co-Chair)
James McGillan, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (Co-Chair)

JSIV - LASER IGNITION FROM WOP