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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Sep 15, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: Dec 28, 2025

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Karsten Koenig
Saarland University, Germany
Title: Medical femtosecond lasers" including femtosecond laser eye surgery and clinical two-photon imaging
Karsten König is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Biophotonics and Laser Technologies at the Saarland University. He is also founder and president of the company JenLab GmbH. He gained the PhD degree in physics and habilitation degree in cell biology from the University Jena. Prof. König published about 500 scientific papers in the field of biophotonics and laser material processing and pioneered fluorescence lifetime imaging, femtosecond laser nanoprocessing including laser transfection, as well as clinical multiphoton tomography.
Prof. Boris Malomed
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title: Multidimensional Solitons
I was born in Minsk (Belarus). I had received MS in physics from the Belorussian State University (Minsk) in 1977, PhD in theoretical physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1981, and the Doctor of Sciences degree (habilitation) in theoretical physics from the N. N. Bogoliubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kiev) in 1989. Till 1991, I was a senior researcher at the Institute for Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Since 1991, I was an Associate Professor, and since 1998 a Full Professor at the Tel Aviv University. Since 2015, I am a holder of a personal research chair "Optical solitons" funded by the Tel Aviv University. I have published 1,200+ papers and four books. The total number of citations to my publications exceeds 59,000. My h-index is 92 (Web of Science) / 96 (Scopus)/ 109 (Google Scholar). I am an editor of four major international journals: Physics Letters A, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Scientific Reports, and PLOS ONE, and an Editorial Board member of Journal of Optics, Symmetry, Photonics, Optics Communications, and Chaos. I have been an advisor to 31 MS students, 14 PhD students, and 11 postdocs. I am a Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (recently renamed to Optica), and a Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Nonlinear Sciences. In 2025, I am a recipient of the NSC (Nonlinear Science & Complexity) Lagrange award for lifetime achievement in Nonlinear Physical Science.
Prof. Jean-Michel Nunzi
Queen's University, Canada
Title: Will Update
Jean-Michel Nunzi graduated from Physique-Chimie Engineering School, Paris 1982. He joined l’Ecole Polytechnique for a PhD on the nonlinear optics of surface plasmons. He was hired full-time Researcher in Organic Photonics at the Atomic Energy Commission (Saclay) in 1984, became head of the Organic Devices Lab in 1995. He joined the Department of Physics at University of Angers as Professor in 2000, building the Plastic Solar Cells Technology Research Team. He moved to Queen’s University on a Canada Research Chair in 2006 with a dual appointment in both the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Chemistry.

He is also an invited professor at Université de Lorraine (France) since 2012, a research professor at University of Kanazawa (Japan) since 2019, an adjunct professor at Shoolini University (India) since 2021, and a distinguished professor at Guizhou University since 2024 (China).

He studies organic and nano-photonics, self-organization, the processing and physics of nanomaterials and devices for life, energy, and sustainability, with 390 peer-reviewed publications and 10000 citations in the Web of Science, of which several contributions like the all-optical poling of polymers or the photoinduced translation diffusion of azo-materials triggered significant interest and follow-up research from the organic photonics’ community.
Prof. Zhiliang Yuan
Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (BAQIS), China
Title: Resonance fluorescence revisited.
Dr Zhiliang Yuan is Chief Scientist at the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (BAQIS), where he leads the Quantum Photonics Group. His research focuses on quantum light sources and quantum communications. His recent work established the pure-state model of resonance fluorescence, providing a new conceptual framework for light–matter coherence. He has also led pioneering developments in high-rate quantum key distribution (QKD) networks and solid-state single-photon emitters. Dr Yuan is a Fellow of both Optica and the Institute of Physics (IOP), and author of over 150 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals, including Nature, Science, and Physical Review Letters.