16 & 17 September
Brabanthallen - Den Bosch
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About DutchPhotonicsEvent

Experience the DutchPhotonicsEvent, where cutting-edge advances in photonics and optics take centre stage.
PhotonicsNL expands its collaborative reach by partnering with a distinguished member to add a new focus to this exceptional event. The DutchPhotonicsEvent brings together professionals from across the photonics ecosystem, with innovation at its core and a strong emphasis on exploring the latest technological developments. This year’s programme will feature a strong scientific focus, with dedicated sessions covering key topics shaping the future of photonics.
Our mission is to deliver valuable insights into the world of photonics and accelerate the global impact of photonics applications. Expect two inspiring days of high-level knowledge exchange and meaningful networking opportunities that deepen your understanding of this rapidly evolving field.
Join us and be part of shaping the future of photonics.

It will be two promising days!

Exhibitor Opportunities

Beyond simple brand recognition, this is your opportunity to immerse yourself in the latest scientific developments and trends, ensuring you stay ahead of every market shift. It is also the ideal environment to scout the next generation of top-tier talent, bridging the gap between your organization’s needs and the brightest emerging minds. By cultivating these essential connections and participating in our shared pool of knowledge, you turn standard industry interactions into lasting professional relationships that propel your business forward. Position your brand among the best and let your work reach the audience it truly deserves.

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Plenary

Prof. Andrea Alù

Prof. Dr. Christine Silberhorn

Prof. Dr. Imran Avci

Invited Speakers

Dr. Sabina Caneva

Prof Dr. Pepijn Pinkse

Prof. Dr. Marloes Groot

Dr. Anna Green

Dr. Matthias Lautenschläger

M.Sc. Martijn Heck

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Andrea Alù

Andrea Alù is a Distinguished Professor, founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York.  He is affiliated with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the Applied Research Laboratories, both based at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor.  His research interests span over a broad range of technical areas, including applied electromagnetics, nano-optics and nanophotonics, microwave, THz, infrared, optical and acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, nonlinearities and nonreciprocity, cloaking and scattering, acoustics, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas.

Prof. Dr. Christine Silberhorn

Christine Silberhorn is a professor at Paderborn University and spokesperson of the Institute for

Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS). She is best known for her work on the development

of integrated-optical quantum devices and photonic systems that lay the foundations for future

quantum technologies, including quantum communication and quantum metrology. In the area

of photonic quantum computing, she has been pioneering Gaussian Boson Sampling for scaling

photonic quantum computing. She is Fellow of Optica and of the Max Planck School of

Photonics.

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Dr. Imran AKCA-AVCI

B. Imran Avcio obtained her PhD in 2012 from the Integrated Optical Microsystems Group at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, where she developed on-chip optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems. From 2013 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School. In 2015, she was awarded an NWO VENI grant and continued her research at AMC in Amsterdam, followed by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in 2016. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at VU Amsterdam. Her group pioneers multimodal biophotonics, creating photonic instruments that sense, image, and stimulate biological systems to reveal new biomarkers and enable novel therapies.

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Dr. Sabina Caneva

Sabina Caneva is Associate Professor and Delft Technology Fellow in the Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering at TU Delft. She is interested in bridging advances in instrumentation and nanofabrication with insights into biophysical phenomena at the smallest scale. Her group focuses on developing ultrasenstivie nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) to study fundamental questions and tackle challenges in nanobiology, including molecular diagnostics and size-selective biomolecular transport across cell membranes.

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Prof Dr. Pepijn Pinkse

Pepijn Pinkse obtained his Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Amsterdam. Thereafter, he performed seminal cavity QED experiments at the University of Konstanz and at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ). Here, he worked on cooling and trapping molecules. In Twente since 2009, he pioneered quantum-secure authentication. He chairs the Adaptive Quantum Optics group and leads the centre for QUAntum Nanotechnology Twente (QUANT). Presently, he is combining quantum optics with nanofabricated media, in particular integrated photonics. 

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Prof. Dr. Marloes Groot

Marloes is a physicist specialising in medical photonics and biophysics, focused on translating novel photonic methods into clinical healthcare. Fascinated by femtosecond lasers and nonlinear light–tissue interactions, I earned my PhD in Physics from Vrije Universiteit in 1997 and later held positions in Chicago and France. Now a full professor in Amsterdam, my research centers on nonlinear microscopy, including higher harmonics generation for Instant Pathology, with applications in lung, brain, and skin tissue analysis.

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Dr. Anna Green

Anna Green is an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University, with a decade of experience supporting the design and commissioning of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors including LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and the proposed Einstein Telescope. She specialises in simulation-driven mitigation of optical defects. A core contributor to Finesse (a Nikhef-led project) — now a field-standard for gravitational-wave-detector modeling – she also co-chairs ET’s Optical Layout, Sensing and Control (HF) work-package, with key contributions to ET’s 2025 detector layout. 

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Dr. Matthias Lautenschläger

Photonics engineer specialised in laser material processing and applied photonics. Currently managing the PhytoPhotonics network, supporting photonics applications in agriculture through network coordination, funding proposal consulting, and research project management. Previously conducted research at the Laser Centre Hannover on laser weeding combined with computer vision and robotics, and at Hochschule Münster on laser weeding and laser material processing. Combines technical expertise in photonics with experience in collaborative research and innovation management.

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M.Sc.Martijn Heck

Martijn Heck is Professor in the Photonic Integration group at Eindhoven University of Technology and part-time group leader at Aarhus University, where he founded the Photonic Integrated Circuits group. An internationally recognized expert in photonic integration, his work spans optical chip design, fabrication, and characterization. He has contributed to JePPIX multi-project wafer runs and hybrid silicon technologies commercialized by Intel and Juniper, advancing sensors, microwave and terahertz photonics, quantum technology, and interconnects.

 
 
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