Prof. Dr. Paul French

Apart from spells at the University of New Mexico and AT&T Bell Laboratories, Paul French has spent most of his career at Imperial College London, starting as a Physics undergraduate in 1980 and continuing as a PhD student, post-doctoral researcher and member of the academic staff.  His research interests have evolved from ultrafast dye and solid-state laser physics to include biomedical optics with particular emphasis on coherence-gated imaging through turbid media and fluorescence lifetime imaging applied to molecular biology, clinical imaging and drug discovery.

Prof. Dr. Costas Soukoulis

Prof. Dr. Costas Soukoulis is a member of the Condensed Matter Physics Group of the Physics Department at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory (a DOE facility).

His interest focuses on the development of a theoretical understanding of the properties of disordered systems, photonic crystals, left-handed materials, random lasers, random magnetic systems, nonlinear systems, and amorphous semiconductors. The theoretical models developed are often quite sophisticated to accurately reflect the complexity of real materials.

Prof. Dr. Volker Sick

Prof. Dr. Volker Sick lectures at the University of Michigan, USA. He is specialized in developing and applying new optial diagnostic techniques to study reactive and non-reactive flows with a particular emphasis on internal combustion engines.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Gottschalk

After he finished his basic studies in chemistry, Dr. Alexander Gottschalk wrote his PhD theses about the Purification and characterization of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complexes from S. cerevisiae.

Today, apart from leading an independent research group, he lectures in Molecular Membrane Biology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Dr. Peter Vukusic

Dr. Peter Vukusic leads the natural photonics research at the University of Exceter. His research group analyzes the development of  structural colours in wings of moths and butterflies and additionally uses the design ideas from their understanding of natural photonics for develompent towards applications in a range of different technologies.