Michael Pircher

Associate Professor

Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Michael Pircher is an Associate Professor at the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. His scientific interest lies in retinal imaging, adaptive optics, new contrast techniques in optical coherence tomography and coherence microscopy.

Jacopo Bertolotti

Professor

Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Prof. Bertolotti has been working on the properties of multiply scattered light since his PhD. Starting from fundamental phenomena like Anderson Localisation and superdiffusion, his interests gradually moved to wavefront shaping and the problem of imaging through strongly scattering media, where he published several seminal works

Gert-willem Römer

Professor

Chair of Laser Processing, Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands

Prof.dr.ir. Gert‐willem Römer holds the Chair of Laser Processing at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. His scientific focus is on the fundamental physical phenomena occurring during laser‐material interaction, in order to optimize laser‐material processing for laser‐based manufacturing. Main processes studied are material processing using ultra-short pulsed laser sources for micro‐ and nano‐machining, laser-cladding and additive manufacturing (Directed Energy Deposition) using multi-kW laser sources. The latter includes developing strategies, methods and tools (devices) for real-time (dynamic) beam shaping.

Martin Booth

Professor

Department of Engineering Science/Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Prof. Booth's interests lie in the theory and practice of dynamic optics, particularly the use of adaptive optical elements in high resolution microscopy and ultrafast laser fabrication. Common adaptive elements may be used for the dynamic manipulation of the properties of an incident beam of light. This has many useful applications, notably for the correction of any aberrations present in an optical system that may degrade its performance. A primary application area is the compensation of specimen induced aberrations in high resolution microscopy. More generally he is interested in optical systems for microscopy (mainly for biomedical applications such as neuroscience), laser-based microfabrication, and related areas such as optical tweezers and optical data storage. Most of these projects involve the application of active and adaptive optics for aberration correction, beam control and enhancement of other system capabilities.

Andreas Zepp 

Senior Scientist

Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Ettlingen, Germany

Dr.-Ing. Andreas Zepp is a Senior Scientist at Fraunhofer IOSB, working on adaptive optics for laser propagation through the atmosphere. His main application areas include free-space laser communication and directed energy. His research focuses on the
development of wavefront sensing methods tailored to particularly challenging scenarios.