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Dr. Björn Kemper
Head of Optical Technologies, Biomedical Technology Center of the Medical Faculty, University of Muenster, Germany
Dr. Björn Kemper is an interdisciplinary senior researcher and principal investigator at the Biomedical Technology Center of the Medical Faculty, University of Muenster, Germany. He studied Physics and Biophysics at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 2001, he received his PhD in physics from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Research interests of Dr. Kemper are optical metrology and biomedical optics for label-free imaging of biological cells and tissues with special focus on digital holography, quantitative phase imaging and quantitative optical microscopy. He developed various digital holographic microscopy systems for applications in cytometry of living cells and tissue analysis in histopathology. He is author and co-author of more than 250 publications in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings, and committee member and reviewer for several conferences and various peer reviewed scientific journals as well as for national and international funding.
Prof. Malgorzata Kujawinska
Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Malgorzata Kujawinska, received her PhD degree in Applied Optics from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland. She is a professor and head of Quantitative Phase Imaging Team at WUT, international expert in applied optics and optical metrology for engineering, biomedical, and cultural heritage applications. She is SPIE and OPTICA Fellow, past SPIE President, recipient of SPIE Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology and SPIE Denis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics.
Prof. Adrian Podoleanu
Applied Optics Group, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Prof. Adrian Podoleanu (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, of the Institute of Physics, of Optica, of SPIE and an International Fellow of Chinese Optical Society) is the Head of the Applied Optics Group, Professor of Biomedical Optics in the Department of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, an investigator of the Biomedical Research Centre, University College London (UCL) and Institute of Ophthalmology and honorary professor in the UCL and in the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Technical University of Bucharest in 1984. He was a founder member of the Romanian Chapter of SPIE and its first Chairman (1992). He has obtained the first en-face OCT images from the retina in the human eye (1996) and reported the first combined OCT/SLO instrument (1998). Currently he serves as the Associate Secretary of the International Commission for Optics. AWARDS: Order of the Crown, officer, Royal House of Romania, 2017; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2015; European Research Council, Advanced Research Fellowship, 2010-2015; Ambassador’s Diploma, Embassy of Romania in the UK, 2009; Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2004 – 2006; Romanian Academy “Constantin Miculescu” prize for research in Lasers and Nonlinear Optics, 1984.
Prof. Maciej Trusiak
Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Maciej Trusiak is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Faculty of Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology WUT. He earned his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Photonics Engineering from WUT in 2011, 2012, and 2017, respectively. Following his doctoral studies, he completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Optoelectronic Image Processing Group led by Prof. Javier García and Prof. Vicente Micó at the University of Valencia, Spain. In 2022, he obtained his habilitation degree and launched the Quantitative Computational Imaging Lab (qcilab.mchtr.pw.edu.pl), focusing on computational imaging, lensless microscopy, optical metrology, interferometry and holography, quantitative phase imaging, and fringe pattern analysis. In 2023, he was awarded the ERC Starting Grant for research on lensless, label-free nanoscopy. Prof. Trusiak is an active member of the optical science community; he is a Senior Member of SPIE and Optica. He has held various organizational roles, including Program Chair of Optica Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI) conference. He currently serves as Executive Editorial Board Member of Journal of Physics: Photonics (IOP), Editor of Optics and Lasers in Engineering (Elsevier), Associate Editor of Applied Optics (Optica Publishing Group), and Editorial Board Member of Advanced Devices & Instrumentation (AAAS Science Partner Journal).
