Keynote Speakers

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Laura Na Liu received her Ph.D in Physics at the University of Stuttgart. She worked as a a postdoc  at the University of California, Berkely, and as a visiting professor at Rice University. She was a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems before becomimg a full professor at the University of Stuttgart where she today heads the  2nd Physics Institute. Laura Na Liu's research focuses on the design and control of light–matter interactions at the nanoscale using metal nanoparticles and DNA-based architectures.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Christy Landes received her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at Georgia Institute of Tech, followed by postoctoral stations at the University of Oregon and the University of Texas, Austin. She was the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry at Rice University before becoming Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Landes group develops next generation tools to image dynamics at soft interfaces at the limit of a single event. They devise new methods and models for understanding macroscale processes such as protein separations and photocatalysis using this super-resolved chemical knowledge.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Andrea Baldi received his Ph.D. in physics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He then worked as postdoctoral fellow at Delft University of Technology and Stanford University and as senior scientist at the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) in Eindhoven. Today, he is Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain

Javier Aizpurua received his Ph. D. in physics at the University of the Basque Country. After research positions at Chalmers, NIST, and the Donostia International Physics Center DIPC he held a research professor of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) at the Materials Physics Center in San Sebastian. Today, he is is an Ikerbasque Professor at  DIPC, and a distinguished researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in San Sebastian.