Anita Mahadevan-Jansen
Organisation: Vanderbilt University Role: Director, Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center
Anita Mahadevan-Jansen’s CV needs little introduction. As president of SPIE, this respected professor of biomedical engineering juggles a demanding directorship at the Biophotonics Center at Vanderbilt University (VBC). Her primary research areas include the use of label optical imaging techniques for diagnosis of disease and guidance of surgery. It’s this balance of critical research with her strong advocacy focus that makes her current presidency all the more remarkable. VBC’s research is built around three main areas: clinical photonics; neuro-photonics
Haïk Mardoyan
Organisation: Nokia Bell Labs Role: Senior research scientist Based in: Paris, France
Haïk Mardoyan has made a sustained contribution in the high-speed optical transport field during his 22-year career, for example designing and building high baud rates prototypes such as Nokia Bell Labs’ successful test of a 260 GBaud ultra-high- speed optical signal transmission over 100km of standard single-mode fibre in September. Despite his experience and expertise
with fibre, Mardoyan believes space-based communication will also have a big impact on photonics research in the near term. ‘The great novelty is to allow high-
Education: Master of Research in Sciences and Technology in Fundamental Physics and Optronics
speed communication by satellite, while keeping the possibility of transmitting more information on the optical fibre, for example via multi-core fibres, via technologies with greater bandwidth. More capacity is the key view for the future,’ he said. Mardoyan believes overcoming the
network infrastructure challenges will enable ‘technological advances such as eliminating latency on communications between robots and doctors during patient operations in hospitals’. Mardoyan plans to attend OFC 2023 and ECOC 2023.
Manyalibo Matthews
Organisation: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Role: Division Leader, Materials Science (Physical and Life Sciences Directorate)
Manyalibo Matthews’ research interests include understanding and optimising metal 3D printing processes, laser materials processing, high-power laser damage mechanisms, laser-based nanoscale modification of surfaces, and in situ characterisation of transient processes. Matthews predicts ‘spatial control
of materials properties in advanced manufacturing using controllable light sources,’ will be the next big thing in his area of photonics research, but he believes continuing to reduce the cost of high-quality,
Based in: Livermore, California, US Education: PhD in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
high energy ultrafast lasers will be a challenge. Matthews is active in several professional societies, participating as a co-organiser for the Materials Research Society and Materials Science and Technology symposiums, a member of the Academic Advisory Board at Norfolk State University, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed articles with more than 11,000 citations, three book chapters and holds 19 US patents. Matthews plans to attend Photonics West 2023 and TMS 2023.
Based in: Nashville, TN, USA Education: PhD in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
and multiscale photonics. The centre’s Day of Light Symposium was a highlight of 2022. Mahadevan-Jansen is a fellow of SPIE, Optica (OSA), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and was recently inducted into the National Academy of Inventors. She has served as a reviewer for nearly two dozen journals and as editor for titles including Journal of Biomedical Optics, Neurophotonics and Applied Spectroscopy. She started the Biomedical Vibrational Spectroscopy conference at Photonics West BiOS in 2002, which has been running ever since.
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