PHOTONICA 2019

Dr. Eggeling holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Göttingen, Germany, where he optimized single-molecule fluorescence detection. From 2000 to 2003 he was a research scientist at the biotech company Evotec, Hamburg, Germany, developing advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques for high-throughput drug screening. In 2003, Christian Eggeling joined the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany as a senior scientist in the department of Professor Stefan Hell (2014 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). Here, he was focused on the field of optical super-resolution microscopy, specifically the biological applicability of stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. Since 2012, Christian Eggeling has been a principal investigator in the Human Immunology Unit and the scientific director of the newly established Wolfson Imaging Centre Oxford at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and in 2014 he has been appointed Professor of Molecular Immunology. From December 2017 on he started as a Professor of Super-Resolution Microscopy and director of the Institute of Applied Optics (and Biophysics) (IAOB) at the Friedrich Schiller-University Jena, and as the Head of the Department of Biophysical Imaging at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technologies in Jena, Germany. Christian Eggeling's research is focused on the development of advanced microscopy for the investigation of molecular organization and dynamics in cells, especially on the cellular plasma membrane.

Gerd Leuchs is professor adjunct at the physics department of the University of Ottawa and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen. After 15 years in academic research at the Universities of Cologne, Munich and at JILA, Boulder, Colorado, he worked at a Swiss optics company for five years. His scientific work includes quantum beats, photo-electron angular distributions in multi photon ionization, quantum noise reduced and entangled light beams and solitons in optical fibres, quantum communication protocols, focusing light beams and nanophotonics. For five years, Gerd Leuchs led the German gravitational wave detection group (1985-1989). He has been Visiting fellow of JILA, Feodor-Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Heisenberg fellow of the German Science Foundation, Visiting Professor at the Australian National University, at the University of Adelaide and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel of the Ecole Normale Superieure. He is member of the German Physical Society, the German Society for Applied Optics, the European Physical Society and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Optical Society of America. He is foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary degrees from the Danish Technical University and Saint Petersburg State University. In 2005 he received the Quantum Electronics Prize of the EPS, and in 2018 the Herbert Walther Prize jointly awarded by the Optical Society (OSA) and the German Physical Society (DPG).

Stefano Giorgini was born in 1965 in Bolzano (Italy). He obtained the Laurea in Physics from the University of Trento in 1990 and the PhD in 1994 from the University of Padua with a thesis on "Hydrodynamic fluctuations and vortices in superfluid systems". He then moved to Nottingham and to Barcelona as a post-doc where he worked on various aspects of the physics of superfluid 4He. In 1996 he moved to the Univesity of Trento, first as a Research Assistant and Adjoint Professor and since 2010 as an Associate Professor. In Trento he pursued his research interests in the field of quantum degenarete gases of bosons and fermions, superfluidity and macroscopic quantum phenomena, many-body theories and quantum Monte Carlo simulations. He has currently more than 70 publications, including 23 Physical Review Letters and 2 Reviews of Modern Physics, with a total of more than 8000 citations and an h-index of 32 according to the ISI Web of Science

Professor Yeshaiahu (Shaya) Fainman is a Cymer Professor of Advanced Optical Technologies and Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received the Ph. D. from Technion in 1983. Currently he is directing research of the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics group at UCSD and made numerous contributions to near field optical phenomena, inhomogeneous and meta-materials, nanophotonics and plasmonics, and non-conventional imaging. The research applications target information technologies and biomedical sensing. His current research interests are in near field optical science and technology. He contributed over 300 manuscripts in peer review journals and over 450 conference presentations and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, and a recipient of the Miriam and Aharon Gutvirt Prize, Lady Davis Fellowship, Brown Award, Gabor Award, Emmett N. Leith Medal and Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize.

Karl Unterrainer received the MS degree in Physics and the PhD degree from the University Innsbruck, Austria. In 1992 he became assistant professor at the Technische Universität Wien, Austria. In 1994 and 1995 he worked as a visiting researcher at the Quantum Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara. He used nonlinear THz spectroscopy to study intersubband relaxation rates and observed the inverse Bloch oscillator effect. From 1997 till 2003 he was associate professor at the Technische Universität Wien. Since 2004 he his full professor at the Photonics Institute, TU Wien. Since 2006 he is coordinating the FWF research cluster "Infrared Optical Nanostructures IR-ON". In 2014-2015 he was the dean of the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Wien. His main research areas are THz spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures and the development of THz devices. He is author or coauthor of more than 280 scientific articles and winner of several awards among them is the START award from the Austrian FWF.

Dr. Nikos Plerosjoined the faculty of the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2007, where he is currently serving as anAssociateProfessor. He obtained the Diploma and the PhD Degree in Electrical &Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2000 and 2004, respectively.His research interests extend along the complete span of photonic technology applications in the fields of communications, computing and sensing. His has been actively engaged in research on optical interconnecttechnologies and architectures exploitingphotonic integrated circuit technologies, optical switching for disaggregated data center architectures and high-performance computing, optical memories and optical RAMs, silicon photonics and plasmonics, optical signal processing, 5G networks and protocols, biosensing and more recently also on neuromorphic photonics and the use of photonics for Neural Network hardware platforms. Hehas more than 260archival journal publications and conference presentations includingseveralinvited contributionsand his work has received more than 2600 citations (h-index=28, GS). He has held positions of responsibility at several major conference committees including ECOC, OFC and SPIE Photonics West.Dr. Pleros has coordinated more than sixFP7 and H2020 European projects (ICT-STREAMS, PlasmoFab, RAMPLAS, PLATON, COMANDER,5G-PHOSetc), while he has been the Principal Investigator for his universityin more than 10 FP7 and H2020projectswhere his group participated as a partner. In total, he managed to raise a total amount of funding of more than 8million Euros for his institute during the last 10years. He has received the 2003 IEEEPhotonics SocietyGraduate Student Fellowship granted to 12 PhD candidates world-widein the field of photonics, while he was proud to supervise three more Fellowship winners (Dr. D. Fitsios in 2014, Dr. C. Vagionas in 2016 and Dr. P. Maniotis in 2017) during their PhD. Dr. Pleroswas also awarded the 15thprize in the Greek Mathematical Olympiad. Heis a member of the IEEEPhotonics Society andthe IEEECommunications Society

Sergej Flach is a theoretical physicist whose research has spanned a number of scientific fields in his career. With about 200 publications to his name, his research has been cited over 12,000 times giving him an h-index of 50 and i10-index of 149. He is a member of the American Physical Society, German Physical Society, Korean Physical Society, and New Zealand Institute of Physics. He is an editorial board member of Chaos (2016-) and was an editorial board member of Physical Review E (2009-2011). He is the founding director of the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (Institute for Basic Science), a professor at the University of Science and Technology, and an honorary research fellow at the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study in Massey University.

Sven Burger received his PhD from University of Hannover, Germany. Currently he heads the Computational Nano Optics research group at Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany. He is further a member of the Berlin Joint Lab for Optical Simulations in Energy Research, of the DFG excellence cluster Math+, and of the board of JCMwave, a spin-off company from Zuse Institute Berlin. His current research fields are in modelling, simulation and optimization related to applications in optics and photonics.

Thierry Verbiest obtained his PhD in physical chemistry in 1993 at the university of Leuven (Belgium). After a postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center (San José, CA) he returned to the university of Leuven where he is now a full professor in the department of chemistry. He has performed research in the fields of nonlinear optics, magnet-optics and chiro-optics and is author/co-author of more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His current research interests are multi-photon microscopy of organized structures, nonlinear optical scattering to study dynamical processes and magneto-optical properties of organic materials.

Thorsten Wohland studied Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He conducted his diploma thesis at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and obtained his PhD in Biophysics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, for theoretical and experimental work on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). Following a two year postdoc at Stanford in the USA working on single molecule detection, he joined the National University of Singapore, where he is now Professor in the departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry. At NUS he developed several new fluorescence correlation spectroscopy methods, imaging total internal reflection fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (ITIR-FCS), single plane illumination microscopy FCS (SPIM-FCS), and single wavelength fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (SW-FCCS), which allowed taking correlation images of live cells and quantitatively measure affinity constants of bimolecular interactions in live organisms, respectively. His current research aims at the application of these methods to biological problems.

Aleksandar R. Milosavljević is Beamline Scientist Synchrotron SOLEIL, France. His research interest is in Experimental physics of atoms and molecules; Cross-beam experimental technique; Electron and photon interactions with biomolecules; XPS and NEXAFS; Electron optics, electron-trace simulations; Electron transmission through nanocapillaries; Electron interaction with nanostructures.

ANDREI PANARIN has obtained his PhD in 2010 at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France in the framework of France-Belarusian collaboration. The topic of his thesis was formation, study and application of novel highly-sensitive SERS-active substrates based on porous materials, such as porous silicon and anodic aluminum oxide. ANDREI PANARIN has been working at the Laboratory of Photonics of Molecules of B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics NAS Belarus since his graduation in 2000. Main areas of his research are: (i) investigation of excited state properties of tetrapyrrole compounds and their complexes with proteins and DNA by methods of steady-state & laser time-resolved absorption and emission spectroscopies, (ii) development and design of new experimental technique, (iii) novel plasmonic nanomaterials for application in SERS spectroscopy and (iv) nano-optical and SERS-based sensing applications of plasmonic to ultrasensitive analysis, environmental monitoring and forensic expertise. Over the 15 years Dr. Panarin is the co-author of over 100 publications in monographs, peer-reviewed journals, proceedings and books of abstracts of international conferences. Andrei Panarin has been awarded with a number of Grants and Awards by Belarusian national and scientific organizations. Dr. Panarin has been a participant and a leader in more than 10 national research projects. Also he participated in common projects with research teams from France, Spain, Czech Republic and India.

Arne Wickenbrock received his PhD from the University College London, UK in 2012. After a short stay as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the newly founded group of Prof. Dmitry Budker in Mainz, Germany. He is currently the deputy section leader of the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry (MAM) section at the Helmholtz-Institute Mainz (HIM). There he searches for physics beyond the standard model with table-top experiments, measures feeble biomagnetic signals with atomic or solid state based sensors and more generally attempts to bridge the gap between quantum sensor development and applications.

Boštjan Batagelj received his PhD from the University of Ljubljana in 2003 for work on optical-fiber non-linearity measurements by four-wave mixing. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. His current research interests are in areas of next-generation optical access networks, optical-technology-based timing systems and microwave photonics. He has authored or co-authored over 250 technical and scientific publications and is named as an inventor on ten patents. He was co-founder of two start-up companies in the field of microwave and optical technologies.

Damir Aumiler received his PhD in femtosecond laser spectroscopy from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2006. He spent his postdoc at the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in the group of prof. Andong Xia, working on single-molecule spectroscopy. He is currently the project manager of a 16 mil. EUR project "Centre for Advanced Laser Techniques (CALT)" - a Croatian strategic research infrastructure project funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). His research focuses on opto-mechanical effects on atoms induced by frequency comb excitation, with the goal to create the tools that will allow us to extend laser cooling to more diverse species of atoms and molecules.

Dejan Zecevic (b. Belgrade 1948) is Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine. He received the PhD in Biophysics from The University of Belgrade, Serbia and was trained in the laboratory of Dr Lawrence Cohen who initiated the field of voltage-sensitive dye recording. Dejan is the pioneer of intracellular voltage-sensitive dye imaging technique, a unique and a cutting edge technology for monitoring the membrane potential signaling in axons, dendrites and dendritic spines of individual nerve cells.

JIN DONG SONG was born in Seoul, South Korea. He received the B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1995 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea, in 1997 and 2002,respectively. His graduate work examined MBE growth of 3-5 nanostructures for their application to optoelectronic devices. He is currently the Program Leader for the Development of Low-Power Consumption III-V on Si Devices for the Post-Si Era. His research interests include the growth of quantum structures by MBE and Nanostructure-based optical devices: laser diodes, mid-IR image sensors, and Si-photonic devices.

Konstantinos Makris obtained his Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) in 2002 and his PhD in Theoretical Photonics from the School of Optics and Photonics (CREOL-FCPE) at the University of Central Florida, Orlando (USA) in 2008. From 2008 until 2010 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. During 2011 he was Lecturer at Institute for Theoretical Physics of Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien), Austria. From 2012 until 2015 he was a Marie Curie International Outgoing fellow (MC-IOF) between Princeton University, USA and TU-Wien, Austria. He was elected Assistant Professor at the Department in 2017.

Professor Rodrigo A. Vicencio is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, Chile. In 2004 he received the Ph.D. in Physical Sciences from the same University based on his studies on mobility of localized excitations in discrete nonlinear optical systems. During the years 2005-2006 he was a guest scientist at the Max Planck for the Physics of Complex Systems, where he was working on the Discrete Breathers group. Since 2007 he became an Instructor Professor at the Universidad de Chile, where he continues working. At present he is Director of the Group of Optics (GO), which is mainly focused on the fabrication and characterization of photonic lattices fabricated by the femtosecond writing technique and for optical induction. Nowadays, his group is investigating deeply the interactions between fundamental and dipolar states on different lattice geometries, with an emphasis on flat band lattices.

Vincent Boyer got his PhD on Bose-Einstein condensation from the University of Paris in 2000. Since then he has worked on ultra-cold atoms and quantum optics at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, and the University of Oxford. He is now a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK, where he studies the fundamental and practical aspects of quantum imaging as well as simulations of quantum transport using cold atoms.

After completing his doctoral studies in the Vinca Institute in Belgrade in 1991, Zoran Miskovic joined the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is currently a Professor in that Department and is a member of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology. His early research interests focused on theoretical modeling of interactions of charged particles with solids, surfaces and plasmas. In the past 15 years, Professor Miskovic's interests shifted to particle interactions with low-dimensional materials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and other 2D materials of interest in Nanoplasmonics. He currently explores processes induced by the interaction of fast electrons with nanostructures, involving electron energy loss, excitation of plasmon and phonon polaritons, as well as transition radiation from those structures. This work is of interest for, e.g., novel sources of radiation in Nanophotonics, new generation of particle detectors, and probing plasmonic nanostructures by means of transmission electron microscopy.

Dr Andrej Bunjac was born in Belgrade on the 03. of December 1988. He finished his elementary school and high school in Belgrade and enrolled to the Belgrade Faculty of physicsin 2007 for the study group “applied and computer physics” butin 2009 changed the study group to “theoretical and experimental physics”. He completed his bachelor studies in 2011 and his master studies in 2012 with the graduate work titled “Modern theory of polarization of dielectrics” under the mentorship of Dr Tatjana Vuković. He enrolled for PhD studies in 2012 and has been employed on a research project OI171020 “Physics of collisions and photo processes in atomic, (bio)molecular and nanosized systems” since 2014. Bunjac Andrej completed his PhD in 2018 with a thesis named “Calculation of atomic state populations, angular distributions and energy spectra of photoelectrons for atomic systems in strong laser fieldsusing time dependent methods” under the mentorship of Dr Nenad Simonović.The area of research of Dr Andrej Bunjac is the analysis of interactions of atomic systems with strong laser fields by application of theoretical models and numerical simulations as well as the development of new numerical models for application to studying the processes of excitations and ionizations.So far he has 3 papers published in international journals and 6 publications in international conferences. He participated in 2 COST actions: COST CM1204 XLIC (ultrafast chemical processes) and COST CA17126 TUMIEE (modeling of intense electronic excitations). He was a part of the local organizing committee during the organization of the work group meeting for the XLIC COST action in 2015 at Fruška Gora and is amanagement committee substitute in the TUMIEE action. He also participated in bilateral projects with Austria, Germany and Republika Srpska. During his studies, Andrej mentored elementary school students from the Centre for talentsand worked with the Centre for promotion of sciencefor various cultural events.Outside of his scientific career, Andrej practices archery, plays percussion instruments and teachers mathematics to high school children.

Angelina Totović was born in 1988 in Kragujevac, Serbia. She received her BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering (Nanoelectronics and Photonics), at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 2011, 2013 and 2018, respectively, all under the supervision of prof. dr Dejan Gvozdić. From 2012 to 2018 she was a Teaching and Research Assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She joined WinPhos research group at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2018 as a Senior Researcher. During the PhD studies, in 2016, she was awarded the Scholarship by Coimbra Group Universities through the Programme for Young Researchers from European Neighbouring Countries, through which she was a Visiting Researcher at the Photonics and Electromagnetics Group of the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy. In 2017 she was awarded the Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE Society. She has been working on developing and implementing stable, robust and memory/time efficient algorithms for modeling and simulation of semiconductor optical amplifiers on device level, further transferred to the system level analysis. She was engaged in research on RSOA-based fiber cavity lasers. Her current research interests include neuromorphic photonics and exploitation of SOAs for colorless and energy-efficient optical access networks. She has authored/coauthored one chapter and more than 15 research papers. She received several scientific awards for her work.

Danka Stojanović received her PhD from School of electrical engineering, Belgrade, Serbia. Her thesis is based on investigations and numerical simulations of electromagnetic wave propagation through chiral metamaterials. She is research associate at P* group which is a part of Laboratory of atomic physics in Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences. Her research interests are in modeling of photonic structures, mainly related to metamaterials and metasurfaces operative in terahertz frequency range.

Dejan Pjevic received his PhD in 2018. at Faculty of Physics (Solid state and statistical physics), University of Belgrade. He started his research career in 2011. at Institute of Nuclear Sciences "Vinča" in Laboratory for atomic physics. His main research focuses are on structural and optical modification of thin film materials by doping, laser interaction and ion implantation. Topic of his PhD research was about modification of TiO2 thin films developed by PVD methods for better photocatalytic response. Beside researching structural, optical and photocatalytic properties of TiO2 thin films, he published papers regarding: influence of ion implantation on multilayered structures of Ti and various transition metals, photocatalytic degradation of oxide materials on ceramics, influence of laser interaction with multilayered systems Ti/Ta, Al/Ti and others.

Diego Guzman Silva obtained his MSc title at Universidad de Chile (Chile) in 2014 and later his PhD in Physics at University of Rostock (Germany) in 2018, working in the group "Experimental Solid-State Optics" led by Prof. Dr. Alexander Szameit. Currently he has a postdoctoral position at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Universidad de Chile (Chile), working in simulations and theory about properties of light traveling in continuos and discrete media and also working as experimentalist performing experiments related to waveguides. His research interest is propagation of classical and quantum light together with its experimental implementation.

Iva Popović earned hers PhD in Chemistry in 2017 at the Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. Currently she is employed in Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science, Belgrade, Serbia. Her field of expertise is Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) analysis of small molecules (qualitative and quantitative analysis), lipidomics, proteomics, and biochemistry. She is author/co-author of 14 papers in peer-reviewed journals, one book chapter and 18 conference announcements. Her current research interests is the development of new matrix for MALDI TOF MS analysis, MS database for small molecules, and quantification of small molecules MS analysis.

Maja Nesic obtained hers PhD in Chemistry in 2018 at the Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. Currently employed in Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science, Belgrade, Serbia. She has performed research in the fields of mass spectrometry (optimization of MALDI TOF MS for detection of transition metal salts and complexes), lipidomics and proteomics (study of the interaction between potential anticancer drugs with lipids and proteins), and photodynamic therapy. She is author/co-author of 17 papers in peer-reviewed journals, one book chapter and 16 conference announcements. Hers current research interest is development of antitumor drug delivery system which could be controlled by the light.

Marko Opačić was born in 1988, where he finished Fifth Belgrade Grammar School in 2007. He earned his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Signals and Systems Department of Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade in 2011, and his PhD at the same Faculty in 2018. The title of his PhD thesis was "Nanoscale phase separation in iron-based superconductors investigated by Raman spectroscopy". He began his scientific work in Centre for Solid State Physics and New Materials, Institute of Physics Belgrade in 2012. He was included in several bilateral projects. His research interests include investigation of strongly correlated electronic systems by means of Raman spectroscopy, lattice dynamics and phase transitions in iron-based superconductors and low dimensional magnetic systems. He is a coauthor of 6 original papers in leading international journals and one review paper in international journal. The paper: M. Opačić, N. Lazarević, M. M. Radonjić, M. Sćepanović, H. Ryu, A. Wang, D. Tanasković, C. Petrovic, and Z. V. Popović, "Raman spectroscopy of KxCo2-ySe2 single crystals near the ferromagnet-paramagnet transition", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 28, 485401 (2016) was selected from the editorial board of the journal as one of the most prominent papers of the year.

Mioljub Nesic was born on July 3rd 1984. in Belgrade, Serbia. Having gained the MSc title at School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, in 2010, he started working at Vinca Institute for Nuclear Sciences, in the Group for Photoacoustics and Photothermal Science, led by Dr Slobodanka Galovic, the activities of which are part of the project funded by the Ministry of Science: “Functional, functionalized and improved nano-materials”. He has remained on the position of a Research Assistant until present, with the duties of assessing theoretical models through simulations, novel materials characterization and modeling, as well as setting up the experiment in the field of frequency photoacoustic measurements. Until now, Mioljub has published eight (8) papers in international magazines, one (1) paper in a leading national magazine, and has had nine (9) international conference presentations and five (5) of the domestic ones. Mioljub has received his PhD degree, the thesis title being: „Developing the techniques for solving inverse problem in photoacoustics“. Public presentation of the work was held at School of Electrical Engineering on April 19th 2018. He is married, a father of two boys, and loves cycling and photography.

Nikola N. Vukovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1989. He obtained his BSc, MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2012., 2013., and 2018. respectively from School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia. His research interests include the design and optimization of semiconductor quantum nanostructures, metamaterials, and ultrafast nonlinear optics. He has been involved in Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) project ("Ultrafast Infrared Emitter on a Quantum Cascade - FastIQ"), Science for Peace and Security Programme, the ref. no. 984068 ("Terahertz QCL Based Spectrometer for Rapid Detection of Chemical Agents and Explosives"), COST ACTIONs BM1205 ("European Network for Skin Cancer Detection using Laser Imaging"), MP1204 ("TERA-MIR Radiation: Materials, Generation, Detection and Applications"), COST action MP1406 ("Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics (MultiscaleSolar)") and Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Republic of Serbia) project ref. no. III 45010. He has co-authored 7 articles in refereed international journals and 16 conference papers presented at international and national conferences.

Radovan Dojčilović received his Ph.D. degree in physics in July of 2017 from the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia under the mentorship of Dr. Dusan Bozanic and Dr. Vladimir Djokovic. The title of the doctoral thesis is: "Fabrication of silver-tryptophan and graphene oxide fluorescent nanostructures and investigation of their interaction with biological systems". Dr. Dojčilović is currently employed at the Laboratory for Radiation Chemistry and Physics, within the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences. His current position is a research associate. Main topics of his research include optical properties of hybrid nanostructures from biofunctionalized noble metal nanoparticles to perovskite nanocrystals, polymer nanocomposites, and graphene-based nanomaterials. Dr. Dojčilović participated in several beamline projects at synchrotron SOLEIL (DESIRS/PLEIADES/DISCO), and also in 2018 did his first postdoc at the University of Notre Dame, US.

Veljko Jankovic obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, in 2018. His research during the doctoral studies was focused on unveiling the fundamental physical mechanisms that govern the light-to-charge conversion in donor/acceptor organic photovoltaics. Since February 2019, he has been holding a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague. He is currently working on advancing theoretical and simulation techniques treating primary processes of solar energy conversion (excitation energy transfer and charge separation) in natural photosynthetic and artificial systems