Speakers

Duisburg-Essen (2020-2021) producing nanoadditivated metal and polymer materials with enhanced functionalities allowed him to become the “Particles and Additive Manufacturing of Polymers” postdoc group leader within Prof. Gökce’s chair at the University of Wuppertal (2021-2023). In 2023 was awarded a competitive junior professorship position within the GenT programme of the Valencian Community. Dr. Doñate Buendia develops since January 2024 his research lines at University Jaume I focusing on laser- based nanoparticle synthesis, laser material processing, and fabrication of nanoadditivated functional polymers by additive manufacturing. 

Dr. Eduardo Granados is a physicist based at CERN and an expert in ultrafast laser-matter interactions. He graduated with a BS in Telecommunication Engineering from University of Navarra in 2005. He completed his M.Sc. thesis at the National Science Foundation EUV Science and Technology Centre at Colorado State University and continued his doctoral studies at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), obtaining his Ph.D. in Physics in 2010. For his PhD work he received several awards, among them the Australian Institute of Physics Postgraduate Award and the Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence Award. He was appointed research fellow at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (2010-2013) and tenured scientist at Stanford University from 2013-2018. His research continues today at CERN, where he is a lead staff scientist since 2018. He is the author of more than 120 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals, 60+ conference presentations, and he holds 5 patents. His research interests include pushing the boundaries in photonics, metrology, and intense laser-particle interactions.

In 2018, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo for developing an ultrafast laser processing technique. From April 2019 to July 2022, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. Since August 2022, he has been working as a Lecturer at the same university.

Andrés Lasagni is Professor at TU Dresden since 2012. Since 2017, he has been Coordinator of the Centre for Advanced Micro-Photonics (CAMP) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden. Born in Argentina, he began his academic career with a degree in chemical engineering at the National University of Comahue in Argentina and completed his doctorate in materials science at Saarland University in 2006. In 2007, he was research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan (USA). Lasagni researches industrial solutions for surface functionalization using laser technology. He has published more than 460 articles and has 30 patents.

Felix Loeffler studied physics and biophysics and received his doctorate in physics and biochemistry from the University of Heidelberg and the German Cancer Research Center. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and UC Berkeley in the fields of engineering, infectious disease research, and biochemistry. Since 2017, he leads a highly multidisciplinary group at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. His research focuses on laser processing for nanoprinting, nanomaterials, and biosensors, as well as chemical and material synthesis technologies, with applications in high-throughput synthesis and screening.

Dr. Aiko Narazaki is a principal research manager and leader of Innovative Laser Processing group in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Research in the Aiko Narazaki group primarily focuses on advanced ultrashort pulse laser processing with in-process monitoring and machine learning, and industrial applications of various laser processing such as Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) and material modifications.

He graduated from Vilnius University, Faculty of Physics in 1978 and started to work at Vilnius University. He got PhD degree in 1985 in the field of non-linear spectroscopy in semiconductors. Since 1995, he has been with the Ekspla laser company (www.ekspla.com) and currently holds a position as a consultant on laser technologies. His activity in the company was related to the application of lasers in the industry, the organisation of a laser job shop, and the implementation of laser technologies. By the agreement between Ekspla and the former Institute of Physics, the activity was moved to the newly–established Laboratory for Applied Research at the Institute of Physics in 2004. In February 2011 the laboratory was converted to the Department of Laser Technologies with six laboratories and now employs close to 100 researchers and engineers (www.lts-ftmc.lt). Research activities include the development of new laser sources, applications of lasers in material micro-processing with ultra-short pulse lasers and photonics, 3D laser printing, robotics and implementation of laser technologies in the industry. One of the consequences of his activities is a spin-off company ELAS (now AKONEER) – a laser system integrator, established in 2010 (www.akoneer.com). He is a co-author of more than 230 papers in scientific journals, more than 18 patents, and plenty of presentations at international conferences. www.orcid.org/0000-0002-8560-5062. He was supervising more than 10 PhD students. G. Raciukaitis is experienced in project coordination including national and international research projects, contract research activities for local and foreign companies

She holds a degree in Chemistry from Complutense University (Spain), and in 2006 she received a PhD degree from the same university. She held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University (Austria), and the Applied Physics Department at Vigo University (Spain). In 2010 she joined the Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera at Spanish National Research Council, and since 2021 she is a tenured scientist at that institute. Her research interests include the fundamentals of laser-matter interaction, especially with respect to polymers and laser-induced periodic nanostructures, with the aim of understanding the mechanisms involved in order to control them, and the analysis of the properties and functionalities of the laser-modified materials.

Sven Reichenberger studied chemical engineering and switched to the research field of nanoparticle synthesis using high-power lasers, where he received his Ph.D. at the University of Duisburg-Essen in April 2017. After a two-year postdoctoral phase, during which he specialized in the field of laser-based defect engineering, he founded a junior research group on catalysis at the Institute of Technical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focuses on laser-based synthesis and structural modification, defect insertion and doping of colloidal nanoparticles including crystalline and amorphous metals, alloys, oxides and metallic glasses. In an applied context, his research and materials development efforts focus on the development of fuel cells, electrolyzers and oxidation catalysts.

Ainara Rodríguez received her PhD degree from the University of Navarra in 2010 after obtaining a MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of the Basque Country in 2006. She is principal researcher and project manager in the Advanced Powder Metallurgy and Laser Manufacturing group Ceit-BRTA. Since 2006 she has been working on different basic and applied research projects, focusing her work mainly on the field of laser precision processing of materials for industrial applications. Since 2011, she combines her research work with lecturing tasks in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the School of Engineering – Tecnun (University of Navarra).

Dr Patrick Salter is a Departmental Lecturer in Photonics at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. His research considers ultrashort pulse laser processing, with a particular focus on interal processing of transparent materials, optical aberrations and adaptive optics. Previously he completed a PhD on soft condensed matter physics and was a Junior Research Fellow at New College Oxford.

Pere Serra is professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. degree from that university in 1997. His research has been devoted to multiple topics in the laser materials processing area, from pulsed laser deposition to laser surface treatments. In the last years he has focused his activity on laser microfabrication, with special attention to laser printing technologies for the fabrication of biomedical and printed electronics devices.

Javier Solis is presently Research Professor at the Institute of Optics of the Spanish National Research Council where he is Head of the Department of Non-linear, Ultrafast and Nano-scale Photonics. He has also been Deputy Director (2000-2003) and Director (2003-2008) of the Institute. His PhD thesis was focused on the study of the transformation dynamics of optical recording materials upon nanosecond pulsed laser irradiation. After a short postdoctoral stay at Imperial College (London) funded by the Royal Society he oriented his work to the study of the interaction of ultrashort pulses with materials. At present his research interests include laser-matter interaction, non-linear optics, micro- and nano-structuring of materials with ultrafast lasers, and ultrafast dynamics in fs-laser excited solids. He has published more than 200 research papers and delivered more than 60 invited talks at research conferences in these topics.