Dieter Bimberg received the Ph.D. magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Then he was appointed to a Principal Scientist position at the HML/SNCI of theMax Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Grenoble, France. After serving as a Professor of electrical engineering, Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he assumed the Chair of Applied Solid-State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. He is the Founding Director of its Center of Nanophotonics. He was holding guest professorships at the Technion, Haifa, U.C. Santa Barbara, CA, USA, and at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, CA. He was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at KAU, Jeddah 2012-2018. In 2018 he assumed the directorship of the "Bimberg Chinese German Center for Green Photonics" at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the EU Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the US Academies of Engineering and of Inventors, a Life Fellow the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, and of the American Physical Society. He is recipient of multiple international awards, like the UNESCO Nanoscience Award, the Max-Born Award and Medal of IoP and DPG, the Heinrich-Welker-Award, the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award, the Japanese Oyo Buturi Award of Applied Physics, the Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal and Award of IEEE, and the Stern-Gerlach Award of DPG, to mention a few. He received honorary doctorates of the University of Lancaster, UK, and the St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored more than 1600 papers, 61 patents, and six books. The number of times his research works has been cited exceeds 65,000+ and his Hirsch factor is 111 (@ Google Scholar). His research interests include physics and technology of nanostructures, nanostructured photonic and electronic devices, and energy efficient data communication.

Dr. Sun received his B.Eng. (1982) from the Zhejiang Institute of Technology and his M.S. (1985) from the Zhejiang University, both in Hangzhou, China. He earned his Ph.D. (1989) at the Florida State University with Prof. Jack Saltiel. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Josef Michl (1989-91) and Prof. Marye Anne Fox (1991-92) at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined Clemson faculty in 1992.

Manijeh Razeghi received the Doctorate detat ES Sciences Physiques from the University de Paris, France, in 1980. Manijeh Razeghi was the Head of the Exploratory Materials Laboratory at Thomson-CSF (France) during the 80 s where she developed and implemented modern metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) vapor phase epitaxy (VPE), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), GasMBE, and MOMBE for entire compositional ranges of III-V compound semiconductors from deep UV to THZ.. Developing these tools was fundamental in enabling her to achieve high purity semiconductor crystals with a consistency and reliability that was often unmatched, thereby leading to new physics phenomena in InP and GaAs based semiconductors and quantum structures. She realized the first InP Quantum wells and Superlattices and demonstrated the marvels of quantum mechanics in the low dimensional world. She joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is on the editorial board of many journals, and is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. She has authored or co-authored more than 1000 papers, more than 34 book chapters, and 20 books, including the textbooks Technology of Quantum Devices (Springer Science Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2010) and Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 4th Edition (Springer Science Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2018). Two of her books, MOCVD Challenge Vol. 1 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1989) and MOCVD Challenge Vol. 2 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1995), discuss some of her pioneering work in InP-GaInAsP and GaAs-GaInAsP based systems. The MOCVD Challenge, 2nd Edition (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2010) represents the combined updated version of Volumes 1 and 2. She holds more than 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has an H-index of 95. Dr. Razeghi is a Fellow of MRS, IOP, IEEE, APS, SPIE, OSA, Fellow and Life Member of Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bun shah Award in 2004, IBM Faculty Award 2013, the Jan Czochralski Gold Medal in 2016, the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, and many best paper awards. She is an elected life-Fellow of SWE, IEEE, and MRS.

Jimmy Xu, currently the Chales C. Tillinghast Jr. 1932 University Professor of Engineering and Physics at Brown University, USA. Prior to coming to Brown in 1999, he was the James Ham Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Toronto, Canada. A fellow of AAAS, APS, Guggenheim, IEEE, IoP, he received a number of awards and prizes, including the 1994 Steacie Prize of Canada. Professor Xu is interested in nanoscale science and technology, quantum electronics and photonics, sensors, semiconductor lasers, electro-optics, and collective behaviors of large coupled systems such as neuromorphic computing. His ongoing research includes carbon nanotubes; diamond nanowires, Silicon lasers, active metamaterials, quantum materials, synthesis and non-lithographic fabrication and study of quantum-arrays made from metals, superconducting, molecules and semiconductors; DNA conductivity; physics of redox processes in proteins and cells.

Zhigang Chen is a specially-appointed professor at Nankai University and a professor at San Francisco State University. His research interests include nonlinear optics, topological photonics, and optical manipulation, with more than 250 papers in referred journals and numerous citations. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has served as an Editor/Guest Editor for several journals including Light: Science & Applications and Optics Letters, and as a Chair/Organizer for many conferences including General Co-Chair for the CLEO-Fundamental Science.

Bahram Jalali is the Director of the Photonics Laboratory, the Fang Lu Endowed Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering, and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University in 1989 and was with the Physics Research Division of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey until 1992 before joining UCLA. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of IEEE, OSA, APS, AIMBE, and SPIE. The recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America for the first silicon laser, Bahram has received the Aaron Kressel Award from IEEE, and the Achievement Medal from IET (U.K), and the Pioneer in Technology Award from the Society of Brain Mapping & Therapeutics. Bahram was the Founder and CEO of Cognet Microsystems, a company that pioneered CMOS ICs for optical networks and which was acquired by Intel in 2001. In 2005, he was elected into the Scientific American Top 50 and MIT Technology Review Magazine Top 10.

Jannick Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester and CTO of LighTopTech, she co-founded. At the University of Rochester, she is the Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) that focuses on graduate education and Director of the R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering that engages undergraduates in optical design, fabrication, and metrology. She earned a Diploma from the Institut D'Optique in 1984, and MS (1985) and PhD (1990) degrees in optical science from the University of Arizona. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she focused on learning vision and computer graphics while designing stereoscopic head-worn displays for medical visualization. She also headed the Vision Research Group for Medical Displays (1992-1996). In 1996, she joined the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida (1996-2008) where she built the Optical Diagnostics and Applications Laboratory (ODALab). In 2009, she joined the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester as the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering. Professor Rolland served on the editorial board of the Journal Presence (MIT Press) (1996-2006), associate editor of Optical Engineering (1999-2004), and is currently associate editor of Optics Letters. She is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, SPIE, and NYSTAR. She is the recipient of the 2014 OSA David Richardson Medal and the 2017 Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award.

I have received my M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Genova, Genova, Italy, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., in 1999. Since 2003, I am with INRS-EMT, Varennes, Canada. I am author and coauthor of more than 1,000 papers published in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. My current research interests include integrated and quantum optics, as well as Terahertz science and applications. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the AAAS, of the IEEE, of the American Physical Society, of the Optical Society, of the SPIE, and an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellow, as well as a recipient of the NSERC Synergy and Brockhouse Awards. I served as a Chair and Technical Committee Member for several OSA, IEEE, and SPIE sponsored meetings.

David J. Moss is founding Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. From 2016 to 2020 he was Director of the Centre for Microphotonics at Swinburne. From 2004 to 2014 he was with the University of Sydney and before that was a manager and senior scientist at JDS Uniphase in Ottawa Canada from 1998-2003. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in Physics and BSc from the University of Waterloo. He currently has over 20,000 citations on Google Scholar with an h index of 92. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA and SPIE.

Dr. Emmanuel Stratakis is a Research Director at the Institute of Electronic structure and laser (IESL) (www.iesl.forth.gr) of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH) (www.forth.gr ). He received his Ph.D in Physics from the University of Crete in 2001 from the Physics Department, University of Crete. After graduating, he joined as a visiting Researcher the IESL-FORTH working on the ultrafast laser engineering of materials and as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete. In the fall semesters of 2006 and 2008, he was appointed as a visiting Researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2007 he was elected Researcher at IESL-FORTH where he is leading the "Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano- processing" laboratory (http://stratakislab.iesl.forth.gr ; https://www.iesl.forth.gr/en/research/ULNMP-Group). His research interests are in the fields of (a) Laser-matter interaction; (b) Ultrashort pulsed laser processing of biomimetic surfaces ; (c) Laser processes for organic & hybrid electronics; (d) Laser engineeering and diagnostics of Graphene and related 2D materials; (e) Advanced photonic processes in photovoltaic and energy storage devices; (f) Photo-assisted synthesis of nanocrystals; (g) Applications on non linear imaging in materials science and biology; (h) Laser assisted biofabrication for tissue engineering applications (i) Multipurpose 3D printing complemented with subtractive manufacturing. He has over 220 SCI publications and more than 8000 citations, h-index=48 (Scopus), and he has coordinated many National and European grants. He has delivered more than 50 invited and keynote lectures and has been organizer and chair in major international scientific conferences. He has been an Editor of the journals 'Optoelectronic Advances', 'Materials Today (Bio)', 'Applied Sciences' and 'International Journal of molecular Sciences'. Since 2015, he is the Director of the Nanoscience Facility of FORTH, part of the NFFA-Europe EU Infrastructure, where he is a member of the General Assembly. He is a National expert in the High-Level Group of EU on Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of COST. Since January 2020 he is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Biomimetic (www.biomimetic.gr).

Lukyanchuk graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia under supervision of Prof. Abrikosov. Lukyanchuk got his PhD from Lebedev Physical Institute, 1979. Later he worked in General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is an Honorary Professor at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. During 1999-2019 Lukyanchuk was working in Data Storage Institute in Singapore where he got IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2004, President s Science Award 2013, and Institute of Physics Singapore (IPS) gold medal and award, 2016. Scientific interests of Luk yanchuk are related to laser matter interactions. He published 5 monographs and about 300 original papers.

Professor Sukhdev Roy received the B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics degree from Delhi Univ. in 1986, M.Sc. Physics from DEI, in 1988, and PhD. from IIT Delhi in 1993. He joined the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 1993, where he is at present a Professor in the Department of Physics and Computer Science. He has been a Visiting Professor at many universities that include, Harvard (USA), Waterloo (Canada), Würzburg and Regensburg (Germany), Osaka (Japan), City University and Queen Mary University of London (UK), TIFR, Mumbai and IISc. Bangalore (India). In 2016, he was a Visiting Professor at the 2018 Nobel Laureate Prof. Donna Strickland's Lab. in Univ. of Waterloo, Canada. He is also an Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and Member of the Global Panel of MIT Technology Review. Prof. Roy has made significant contributions in Photonics that encompass nano-bio-photonics, silicon and neuro photonics, fiber optics, and optical computing. His experimental and theoretical research on nano-bio-photonic systems that includes low-power and high frequency optogenetic control of neural spiking, defines a new paradigm of technological convergence and innovation and opens up fascinating prospects for energy-efficient, ultrafast and low-cost all-optical information processing, sensing, energy conversion and healthcare. He has won a number of awards and fellowships that include, the AICTE Career Award for Young Teachers in 2001, JSPS Invitation Fellowship, Japan in 2004, H.C. Shah Research Endowment Prize by Sardar Patel University in 2006, 1st IETE B.B. Sen Memorial Award in 2007, IETE-Conference on Emerging Optoelectronic Technologies Award in 2012, IETE-M. Rathore Memorial Award in 2016, the Systems Society of India's National Systems Gold Medal in 2016, and the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Dayalbagh Educational Institute in 2021. He also has been awarded six best paper awards in international and national conferences. He has published 175 research papers in reputed journals and conference proceedings and 11 book chapters. He chaired the 8th World Conference and Expo on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Philadelphia, USA in 2020. He has delivered more than 100 invited talks in India and abroad that include Keynote Addresses and Plenary Talks at International Conferences that include the prestigious International Year of Light commemorative Keynote Address, at the 38th Convocation of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS), in 2015 and at the Annual Meeting of American Physical Society in 2008. He was the Guest Editor of the March 2011 Special Issue of IET Circuits, Devices and Systems Journal (U.K.) on Optical Computing. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and is a member of the Editorial Board of Optics and Photonics Journal. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, India, IETE (India), and the Optical Society of India. He is listed in Stanford University's coveted Top 2% in World Ranking of Scientists-2020, in Optoelectronics and Photonics.

Maria Rosa is physicist by background, currently researcher at IIT-CNST. Her main research interest concerns the study and the development of biotechnology devices for optical modulation of living cells activity. She developed a huge experience in the characterization and implementation of bio-hybrid interfaces based on conjugated polymers, studied by optical, electronic, photo-electrochemical, ion imaging and electrophysiology techniques. Optical/spectroscopic studies of organic semiconductors complete her profile. Awarded with the ERC-Starting Grant in 2019 (LINCE, Light INduced Cell control by Exogenous organic semiconductors). Coordinator of two Future Emerging Technology European Projects, PHOCS (Photogenerated Hydrogen by Organic Catalytic Systems) and LION-HEARTED (Light and Organic Nanotechnology for Cardiovascular disease, 2019-2022). Participation as Unit PI to several European (ITN OLIMPIA, ITN ASTROTECH) and National projects. Prizes in Social Venture competitions, 4 patents. 70 publications in high rate journals, h-index 26, +1800 citations, +40 Invited talks at international conferences and schools

Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Dr. Yue s current research interests include intelligent photonics, optical communications and networking, optical interconnect, detection, imaging and display technology, integrated photonics, free-space and fiber optics. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >8,000 citations, four edited books, >50 issued or pending patents, >100 invited presentations. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, and an Editor Board Member for three other scientific journals. He also served as Guest Editor for eight journal special issues, Committee Member and Session Chair for >50 international conferences, Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.

James Babington is currently an Optical Design and Research Specialist at Thales UK, based in Glasgow. He is recognized in Thales as being research focused but application driven specialist spanning product development and next generation technology creation. He has a PhD in theoretical physics, has held postdoctoral research positions in Europe (Germany, Italy, France) across multiple research areas (quantum optics and quantum field theory). For the last ten years he has designed numerous visible and infrared optical imaging systems for both existing product roadmaps and low TRL one off demonstrators. His current research interests span mathematical optics, freeform optics, diffractive optics, and computational imaging.

Gabriela Statkiewicz-Barabach received the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She is an Associate Professor with the Department of Optics and Photonics, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. She co-authored about 85 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Her research interests are in characterization of optical fibers and fabrication of fibers Bragg gratings for applications in optical instrumentation and sensing.

Rekha Gautam is a senior scientist in the Bio-photonics group at Tyndall National Institute. She received her M.Sc. in Chemistry from University of Delhi and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science in 2014. In 2015 she moved to USA to pursue her postdoctoral research focusing on the development of optical tools for various clinical applications. Her current research at Tyndall focuses on the development of Raman and time-domain diffuse optical spectroscopy-based tools for clinical applications. Her key interest is in developing innovative optical devices to overcome the challenges of deep tissue spectroscopy and in-vivo imaging. She also serves as executive committee member of Optical Trapping and Manipulation in Molecular and Cell Biology technical group, OSA and international conference of clinic spectroscopy conference SPEC 2020.

Isabel C. S. Carvalho obtained her PhD at PUC-Rio in Brazil, where she is now an associated professor. Initially, she focused her research activity on Second Harmonic Generation in glass systems. Now she is investigating plasmonics systems for sensors and the optical nonlinearities of 2D materials.

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Hillmer born in 1958, Ph.D. in physics from Stuttgart University in 1989, habilitation in engineering from Technical University of Darmstadt. 10 years at the Research Centre German Telekom Darmstadt, designing, fabricating and measuring high speed semiconductor lasers. 1991 guest scientist at NTT Optoelectronic Laboratories, Japan. Since 1999 Professor at Kassel University, heading Institute of Nanostructure Technologies and Analytics, Technological Electronics. European Grand Prix for Innovation Awards in 2006. EU Seal of Excellence in 2020. Research fields: Nano-photonics, optical MEMS, optical Nano-sensors and -actuators for smart personal environments, smart glass for light steering and energy savings in buildings, non-invasive optical biomarker detection, optoelectronic devices and nanotechnology focussing functionalized 3D particles and 3D nanoimprint.

Professor Murshid is pushing the state-of-the-art in optical fiber bandwidth using hybrid optical architectures. His contributions include the addition of two new degrees of photon freedom to optical fiber multiplexing techniques, spatial domain multiplexing - also known as space division multiplexing (SDM), and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photon-based multiplexing. Earlier publications relevant to these endeavors include Optics and Laser Technology article on SDM, FIO presentation on OAM, and SPIE paper on SDM & OAM. His current research revolves around combining these technologies for communication architectures exceeding 100Tb/s. In summary, Professor Murshid is the Inventor of SDM in Optical Fibers - US Patent US7174067B2 Inventor of OAM in Optical Fibers - US Patent US8396371B2 Awards: Named one of Florida's five most influential scientists, Florida Trend magazine, November 2004 Teacher of the Year, College of Engineering, Student Government 2000-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, 1997-1998.

Dr. Qing Gu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Dallas since 2016, directing research in the Nanophotonics Lab (www.utdallas.edu/nanophoton/). She received the Bachelor degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, San Diego in 2014, both in Electrical Engineering. Her research interests include the design, fabrication and characterization of nano- and micro- scale photonic devices (such as lasers, waveguides and sensors), novel light-emitting materials and optical cavity configuration, and integrated photonic circuits. She is the author of book “Semiconductor Nanolasers” by Cambridge University Press, published in 2017. She is a recipient of the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2019 and National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2020.

Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Lademann is an internationally renowned scientist researching at the interface between dermatology, pharmacology and biophysics. Since 1996 the physicist has been in charge of the Center of Experimental and Applied Cutaneous Physiology at the Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin up to 2020. In 2001 he was appointed Professor of Dermatology. He authored and co-authored more than 700 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He was the President of the “International Foundation of Societies of cosmetic Chemists – IFSCC” and he was the president of the IFSCC Congress 2018 in Munich and many other conferences.

Associate Professor Mohsen Rahmani is the Leader of the Advanced Optics &Photonics Lab at Nottingham Trent University. He is a Royal Society Wolfson Fellow and a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellow. His research activities span over light-matter interactions with various type of nano-materials, e.g. metallic, dielectric and semiconductor nanoparticles, in the linear and nonlinear regime for applications in flat optics, near-infrared imaging, bio-sensing, etc. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Singapore in 2013, followed by a postdoc fellowship at Imperial College London, and the Australian Research Council Early Career Fellowship at the Australian National University (ANU). In 2020, he moved to Nottingham Trent University. Rahmani has been invited to present his research findings at >35 international conferences, and he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, with over 3k citations (H-index=31). He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and prizes, including the Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Academics (Australian Oscar of Science), Early Career Medal from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Australian Optical Society Geoff Opat Award.

Hai-Yao Deng received a PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012 with a thesis in ferroelectrics. Beside thesis, I also worked on subjects such as high temperature superconductors and polymer dynamics as well as open quantum systems. Shortly after obtaining PhD, I joined National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan as a post doc doing research on graphene systems, where I was awarded a two-year fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). After spending some time in Exeter (~ 3 years, Josephson resonators) and Manchester (~ 1 year, van der Waals materials), I came to Cardiff University as a Lecturer in 2019. As a physicist, I have great fun in finding out the workings of Nature. My research interests are broad (check my publications), currently focused on physical boundary effects, topological insulators and complex systems (e.g. glasses and networks), and they all contribute in one way or another in painting a coherent picture of Nature for me.

Dr Kang Li is a senior research fellow. His current research focus is on novel light source (OLED/Pled, UV, laser phosphors) and solid lasers (solid, semiconductor, and fiber laser etc.) and their application for industrial, biomedical, and telecommunication. Dr Li has more than 10 years’ experience of working in laser technology, optical design, nonlinear optics, fiber laser, optical imaging, and UV laser lithography. He has strong experimental investigations including high power laser system design, method and problem solving. He has extensive experience of characterization of optoelectronics device using laser metrology (interferometer), high resolution microscopy, photoluminescence, E-beam, and SEM. He has proficiency in database handling and simulation including programming in Matlab, FDTD, COMSOL and OriginPro 8. He has an extensive publication (>50) and patent portfolio (>10) generated during his extensive career working at Swansea University and University of South Wales. He is a peer reviewer for highly impact journal publications in optics field and for Innovate UK/EPSRC proposals. He is also member of Optical Society of America and MInstP. Dr Li holds a PhD in Optics from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BSc in Optoelectronics from Changchun University of Science and Technology, China.

Vasilis Apostolopoulos, received his PhD degree at the University of Southampton at 2003 where he is now an associate professor. He has worked at the University of Cambridge and the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne. He is interested in developing THz time domain spectroscopy and its interface with optical systems such as integrated optics, metamaterial devices and microfluidics. He is also interested in Laser sources, specifically vertical external surface emitting lasers and their applications for nonlinear processes such as generation of Kerr micro-combs.

Alex de Marco obtained his PhD at EMBL in Heidelberg, focusing on developing methods for cryo-Electron Tomography and Subtomogram Averaging to allow large-scale structural studies on heterogeneous and pleomorphic samples. After graduation, he immediately joined FEI Company (now ThermoFisher Scientific) and was responsible for the development of hardware and software solutions for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM). Currently, Alex is an Associate Professor at Monash University. Here his main focus is on developing new methods and technologies (from optics to image processing) to obtain molecular resolution imaging in biological samples.

Dr Jihua Zhang is currently a research fellow in the TMOS Centre, Research School of Physics at Australian National University. His main research interests are on metasurfaces and waveguides for nonlinear and quantum nanophotonics. He obtained dual PhD degrees from University Paris-Saclay and Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2016. After PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Institute of Optics at University of Rochester from 2016 to 2020.

Yutaka Fukuchi was born in Tochigi, Japan, on April 29, 1975. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan, in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2003. In 2003, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan as an Assistant Professor. From 2003 to 2005, he was also a Co-operative Research Fellow in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Then, he became a Junior Associate Professor of Tokyo University of Science in 2006. Since 2009, he has been an Associate Professor at this university. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Research Fellow with the High-Speed Optical Communications Group, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. He has published over 150 papers in major international journals and conferences. His research interests are optical communications, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, and their applications. Dr. Fukuchi is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), and the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE).

Christophe Couteau obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Paris-Saclay in 2006 working on quantum optics with quantum dots. He then spent 3 years as a post-doctorate fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada working on quantum cryptography and the foundations of quantum mechanics. Since 2009, he is an associate professor at the French University of Technology of Troyes (UTT) in France and obtained his Habilitation in 2017 from Sorbonne-Université. He works on quantum photonics, nanooptics and quantum nanodevices. He also spent some time at the University of Oxford and was an adjunct assistant professor at the Departement of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for 4 years, from 2012 to 2016. During that, he was also a CNRS researcher. He is currently the director of the Laboratory Light, nanomaterials & nanotechnologies at the UTT and ERL 7004 CNRS.

Mario F. S. Ferreira graduated in Physics from the University of Porto, Portugal, and received the Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1992 from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, where he is now a Professor at the Physics Department. Between 1990 and 1991 he was at the University of Essex, UK, performing experimental work on external cavity semiconductor lasers and nonlinear optical fiber amplifiers. His research interests have been concerned with the modelling and characterization of multi-section semiconductor lasers for coherent systems, quantum well lasers, optical fiber amplifiers and lasers, soliton propagation, polarization and nonlinear effects in optical fibers. He is actually the leader of the Optics and Optoelectronics Group of the I3N-Institute of Nanostructures, Nano modelling and Nanofabrication. He has written about 400 scientific journal and conference publications, and several books, namely: Optics and Photonics (Lidel, 2003, in Portuguese), Topics of Mathematical Physics (Editora Ciência Moderna, 2018, Brazil, in Portuguese), Optical Fibers: Technology, Communications and recent Advances (Ed., NOVA Science Publishers, 2017), Advances in Optoelectronic Technology and Industry Development (CRC Press, 2019), Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers (John Wiley & Sons, OSA, 2011) and Optical Signal Processing in Highly Nonlinear Fibers (CRC Press, 2020). He was the Guest Editor of four Special Issues of Fiber and Integrated Optics (Taylor & Francis): Fiber Optics in Portugal (2005), Nonlinear Fiber Optics (2015), Optical Fiber Sources and Amplifiers (2020) and Quantum Communications (2020), a joint Special Issue of Optics Express and Applied Optics (OSA) on Optical Sensors and Sensing 2019, and a Special Issue of Fibers (MDPI) on Optical Fiber Communications (2020). He is a Senior Member and a Travelling Lecturer of both of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, He served in various committees of OSA and of SPIE, as well as in the organizing and scientific committees of various international conferences. Actually, he serves also as an Associate Editor or as an Advisor Board Member of several international journals in the area of optics and photonics.

Elsa Fonseca received the 5-year B.S. degree in Physics Engineering and Technology in 1995 and the M. Sc. degree in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering in 1998, both from Instituto Superior TAacnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. In 2007, she received her Ph.D. degree in Physics, from Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), CovilhAE, Portugal. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics, UBI. She is also a PhD member integrated in the Fiber Materials and Environmental Technologies (FibEnTech) Research Unit of UBI. Her main research interests are Digital Holography, Simulation and Development of Optical Systems and Signal Processing Applications in the areas of Image and Video Coding, Remote Sensing, Non-Destructive Evaluation and Vision Sciences. She has authored or co-authored several international refereed journals and conferences and participated in the editorial review board of several International Journals. She is also a member of the Optical Society of America - OSA.

Bettina Heise is a Senior Scientist at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria and she is a head of the OCT and Digital Imaging Technology at RECENDT, Linz. Bettina Heise did her PhD 2010 in Imaging and Image Processing and published Numerous Publications in peer reviewed optics journals.

Jin Li is Associated Professor in the College of Information Science and Engineering at Northeastern University, China since Jan. 2016. He was born in the city of Yuncheng, Shan Xi Province, China in Dec. 1983. He earned the Doctor's degree in Physical Electronics at HIT, China in 2013. He works in Laser Physics Centre of the Australia National University during the whole year of 2017 as a visiting fellow. His research interests include micro/nano-structured photonics, nanomaterials' nonlinear optics, micro/nanofiber sensors and integrated optical devices.

Dr. Munkh-Uchral Erdenebat received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communication engineering from Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He is currently a postgraduate doctor researcher and project manager with School of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University. His research interests include 3D displays and microscopy, 3D image processing, 360° viewable displays, and light-field imaging based on integral imaging and holographic techniques.

Ms. Anar Khuderchuluun received her B.S. degree in Electronics and Automation Engineering from the National University of Mongolia in 2016. Since 2017, she has begun to pursue integration course of M.S. and Ph.D. to achieve Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea. Her research interests include 3D imaging and computer-generated hologram, and holographic printer.

Ms. Nyamsuren Darkhanbaatar received her B. S. degree in telecom communication from the Mongolian University of Science and Technology in 2015. And received an M.S. degree in information and communication engineering at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea in 2019. Since 2019, she has begun to pursue her Dr. degree in information and communication engineering at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea. Her research interests include 3D displays-based light field and holographic techniques, and AR systems.

Mariano Rivera received the degree of Doctor of Science from the AC Optics Research Center (CIO, Mexico) in September 1997. He is a Senior Researcher "C" of the Computer Science Department of the Mathematics Research Center (CIMAT, Mexico), where he works since 1997. He has done academic stays at the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2001-2002), at the Department of Mathematics at Florida State University (Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, 2008-2009) and at the National Supercomputer Center of the Potosino Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (Academic Coordinator, 2017-2018). The academic-administrative positions at CIMAT that he has held are Dean of the Postgraduate Program in Computational Sciences from 2001-2002 and from 2007-2008, Academic Dean (research) from 2011 to 2016. His research interests are in the topics of Vision and Image Processing, Numerical Optimization, Machine Learning. With applications in Optical Metrology, Remote Sensing, Data Analysis, and Medical Image Analysis. He has published more than 50 articles in indexed journals, including IEEE-PAMI, IEEE-Transactions on Image processing, and IEEE-Transactions on Medical Imaging, The Computer Journal, Medical Image Analysis, Optics Letters and Optics an Lasers in Engineering; to mention a few. Mariano Rivera has a similar number of papers in conference proceedings as CVPR, ECCV, ICPR and BMVC. He is a member of the steering committee of the Pacific Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) and of program committees for CVPR, NIPS, ACCV, ICPR, ECCV, ICRL, ICML, ICCV to name a few. He has been responsible for more than 20 national and international research and technological development projects.

Yahia CHERGUI is an assistant Professor in Electrical & Electronics Engineering Institute, Boumerdes Algeria. He has completed his PhD from Badji Mokhtar University in Annaba, Algeria. He did all his PhD work in Cardiff University in UK. His research field is Physics(condensed matter, and soft matter simulation by molecular dynamics). He has many published articles and international conferences. He has been serving as a referee with condensed matter journal (IOP), Energy journal (Elsevier), and American Journal of Modern Physics.