Plenary speakers
Oliver Graydon
Chief Editor, Nature Photonics
Oliver Graydon is chief editor of Nature Photonics, a leading journal from Springer-Nature that publishes high quality research in the areas of optical science, photonics and optoelectronics. Oliver joined Nature Photonics in January 2006 following 10 years of experience in the world of scientific publishing. He was previously employed at the UK’s Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. where he held several posts, including editor of the monthly magazine Opto & Laser Europe and its associated website Optics.org. Oliver has a first-class degree in physics from Imperial College London and a PhD in optical communications from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre.
Topic: Trends and advice in scientific publishing
Prof. Min Gu
Executive Chancellor of the University Council and Distinguished
Professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (Australia)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological
Sciences and Engineering (Australia)
Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (China)
Professor Min Gu is Executive Chancellor of the University Council and Distinguished Professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He was Distinguished Professor and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor at RMIT University and a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council. He is an author of four standard reference books and has over 500 publications in nano/biophotonics. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as well as Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is also an elected fellow of the AIP, the OSA, the SPIE, the InstP, and the IEEE. He was President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences, Vice President of the Board of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) (Chair of the ICO Prize Committee) and a Director of the Board of the Optical Society of America (Chair of the International Council). He was awarded the Einstein Professorship, the W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal, the Ian Wark Medal, the Boas Medal and the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation. Professor Gu is a winner of the 2019 Dennis Gabor Award of SPIE.
Topic: Opto-magnetic nanoscopy with nanodiamonds
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Prof. Michael Somekh
Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
Distinguished professor
Shenzhen University, China
Professor Michael Somekh Geoffrey is a Distinguished professor in Shenzhen University. He received Ph.D degree from Department of Physics, University of Lancaster in 1981. He is the Fellow of Institute of Physics, ILAS Fellow in University of Keele, and honorary professor in University of Nottingham and Zhejiang University. He was awarded as the fellow of the Royal Academy of engineering in 2012 and joined Shenzhen University in 2018. Prof. Somekh’s research interest lies in Biophotonics technology, Imaging plasmonics and biosensors, Acoustic imaging of microscopy, he has published more than 200 papers and 150 conference papers, dozens of monographs and patents; attained grants for around £26M in the UK and these include several prestigious grants such as two EPSRC Platform Grants one as Principal Investigator and one Co-Investigator.
Title: Microscopy and measurement
Prof. James K. Gimzewski
Fellow of Royal Society
Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineeringt
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Uviversity of California Los Angeles, USA
Distinguished Professor Dr. James K. Gimzewski is a distinguished professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles and faculty of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). He received hiscPhD. in Physical Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotlandin 1977.
His current research includes nanoscale science of biological systems, mechanobiology of cells, exosome, single molecule spectroscopy, single molecule DNA profiling and actin bound with neuronal binding proteins. Dr. Gimzewski is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering. He has received honorary Doctorates (& Ph.D. hc D.Sc.hc) from the University of Aix II in Marseille, France and from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is Scientific director of the UCLA Art|Sci Center and is a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2001, he was a group leader at IBM Zurich Research La-boratory from 1983, where he conducted research in nanoscale science and technology for more than 18 years. Dr. Gimzewski pioneered research on mechanical and quantum electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), single molecule manipulation and photons from tunnel junctions. He pioneered the use of func-tionaized cantilevers for DNA and proteomic sensing. He also produced the first noncontact AFM/ STM images of molecules.
Since 2001, he designed specialized AFM systems for biological studies; first at UCLA and later in his role as Director and founder of the Nano & Pico Characterization Tech Center of the UCLA CNSI. His interests range from single bio-molecules, biological nanoparticles and the nanomechanics of cells and bacteria came through collaboration with the UCLA Medical and Dental Schools.
He has also developed a artificial neuropil system with synthetic synapses to emulate brain function.Currently he is developing and contructing a UHV cryogenic nc AFM for atomically precise manufacture (3d printing with atoms).
He has published over 300 scientific publications in international journals, 500 invited talks
He received the 2001 Dudell Medal and Prize for contribution to Nanoscale science, Institute of Physics, 1998 The 『Wired 25』 Award, Wired magazine 1997, Awarded the 1997 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for Experimental Work, 1997, The Discover Magazine Award for Emerging Fields (Nanotechnology) Epcot. In 2013-15 he was a Professor of Physics, NQSI University of Bristol, 2010-2012, Senior Fellow in Residence, Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées (IMéRA) and in 2009 the Carnegie Cententary Professor in the Physics Department, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Title: Scanned Probe Microscopies, Mechanobiology and Nanobiology
Prof. Qionghai Dai
Fellow of Chinese Academy of Engineering
Department of Automation,Tsinghua University, China
Professor Qionghai Dai, born in Dec, 1964, Professor in Automation and Adjunct Professor in Life Sciences at Tsinghua University, and Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Dr. Dai is expertized in computational photography and stereoscopic vision. He has led a National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program) and a Special Fund for Research on National Major Research Instruments, National Science Foundation of China, to develop a Real-time, Ultra-large-Scale imaging at high resolution (RUSH) macroscope, through innovative theories and key technologies of computational photography. RUSH macroscope realizes the multi-dimensional and multi-scale dynamic imaging from subcellular to organ levels, leading to the breakthrough observation of neuron connections in million-scale and real-time to reveal the structure and function of the human neural system. It may provide support for creation of a new generation of neural computing methods.
Title: From Brain Science to Artificial Intelligence
Prof. Yale E. Goldman, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology
School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Co-Director, Nano-Bio Interface Center
Professor. Yale E. Goldman is Professor of Physiology at University of Pennsylvania. He obtained the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1969 and MD and PhD in Physiology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He was a Muscular Dystrophy Association Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College London from 1975, and joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1980. He has had a long-standing interest in muscle contraction, molecular motors, protein synthesis, advanced optical microscopy and single molecule biophysics. He has developed and applied novel biophysical techniques to these studies, leading to a number of novel research findings. New techniques have included laser photolysis of caged ATP, white light optical diffraction, stable isotope oxygen exchange, polarized total internal fluorescence microscopy for single molecule structural dynamics, high speed optical traps, 「parallax view」 3D tracking, and alternating laser excitation (ALEX) microscopy for single molecule FRET measurements. He has trained many successful scientists. Plenary and distinguished lectures include the Lamport Lecturer of the University of Washington, Biophysical Society Motility Subgroup, Aspen Center for Physics, Fairberg Cardiology Conference, University of Alabama, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Gordon Conference on Molecular Motors, University of Virginia, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Washington University in St. Louis. Among awards have been Bowditch Lecturer of the American Physiological Society, Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Fellow, Distinguished Service Award, and President of the Biophysical Society, Stanley N. Cohen School of Medicine Biomedical Research Award, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Election to Membership of the National Academy of Sciences.
Title: Ultra-Fast Single Molecule Mechanics Resolves the Earliest Events in Force Generation by Cardiac Myosin
Prof. Aydogan Ozcan
Professor of Engineering Science
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Booth is Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. His research involves the development and application of adaptive optical methods in microscopy, and laser fabrication. In 2012 he was awarded the 「Young Researcher Award in Optical Technologies」 from the School of Advanced Optical Technologies, Erlangen, Germany, where is a Visiting Professor. In 2014 he was awarded the International Commission for Optics Prize and in 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society. He has over 110 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optics Communications. He is co-founder of two spin-off companies, Aurox Ltd. and Opsydia Ltd.
Title: Advances in Dynamic Optics for Microscopy
Prof. Aydogan Ozcan
Chancellor’s Professor at UCLA
HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Fellow of AAAS, SPIE, OSA, IEEE, AIMBE, RSC and Guggenheim Foundation
Dr. Ozcan is the Chancellor’s Professor at UCLA and an HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, leading the Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory at UCLA and is also the Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. Dr. Ozcan is elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and holds 40 issued patents and >20 pending patent applications and is also the author of one book and the co-author of >700 peer-reviewed publications in major scientific journals and conferences. Dr. Ozcan is the founder and a member of the Board of Directors of Lucendi Inc. and Holomic/Cellmic LLC, which was named a Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum in 2015. Dr. Ozcan is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Photonics Society (SPIE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has received major awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, International Commission for Optics Prize, Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, Rahmi M. Koc Science Medal, International Photonics Society Early Career Achievement Award, Army Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Navy Young Investigator Award, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award and Distinguished Lecturer Award, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award, National Academy of Engineering The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award and MIT’s TR35 Award for his seminal contributions to computational imaging, sensing and diagnostics.
Title: Toward a Thinking Microscope: Deep Learning-enabled Computational Microscopy and Sensing