Monday, July 31st
UNICAMP Convention Center
Auditorium 3
08:30 to 12:30 Plenary Session - Monday

09:00 to 9:45

Sunghoon Kwon

09:45 to 10:30

Antonio Jose Roque da Silva

11:00 to 11:45

Michal Lipson

11:45 to 12:30

Alexandre Gaeta

Sunghoon Kwon is a full professor of School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National
University. He received his B. S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1998), M. S. in Biomedical
Engineering (2000) from Seoul National University, and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University o¬f
California, Berkeley (2004). His research interest is to develop diagnostic and therapeutic technologies for
personalized medicine. He has published over 80 papers in international journals holds more than 70
international patents. Many of his research were commercialized as IVD (in-vitro-diagnostics) kits and now
being used in hospitals. He is a founder and CEO of Quanta Matrix Inc, a company that productized life-saving
microfluidic-based antibiotic test for sepsis. He has generated more than $100M research and development
funding for innovation in personalized medicine. He received many prestigious awards including the KAST
Young Scientist Award, the Presidential Young Scientist Award, the IEEK/IEEE IT Young Engineer Award,
and the NAEK Young Engineer Award.
Antonio José Roque da Silva earned his bachelor's (1986) and master's (1989) degrees in Physics from
UNICAMP and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. He did a post-doc at
the University of California at Berkeley (1994-1995) and at the University of California at Los Angeles (19951997). He is currently a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Physical Sciences), a member ofthe Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (ACIESP), a Professor at the University of São Paulo, and a
Director General of CNPEM and the Sirius Project. Awarded with the National Order of Scientific Merit,
Commander Class. He has published more than 130 articles in specialized journals and is a co-author of morethan 200 papers presented at national and international events. He has more than 4500 citations and an h=34
parameter. He has 4 book chapters and 1 published book. He has supervised 6 post-doctoral fellowships,
supervised 7 MSc dissertations and co-supervised 2, supervised 9 Ph.D. theses, and co-supervised. He works in
Physics, with an emphasis on Condensed Matter Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics. In particular, he
has a main interest in the area of computational simulation and calculations of electronic structure andelectronic transport properties, focusing on the area of nanostructures.
Prof. Michal Lipson is the Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University. Her research focus is on
Nanophotonics and includes the investigation of novel phenomena, as well as the development of novel devices
and applications. Prof. Lipson pioneered critical building blocks in the field of Silicon Photonics, which today isrecognized as one of the most promising directions for solving the major bottlenecks in microelectronics. She is
the inventor of over 45 issued patents and has co-authored more than 250 scientific publications. In recognitionof her work in silicon photonics, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences and theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her numerous awards include the NAS Comstock Prize in Physics,
the MacArthur Fellowship, the Blavatnik Award, OPTICA’s R. W. Wood Prize, the John Tyndall Award, theIEEE Photonics Award, and an honorary degree from Trinity College, University of Dublin. In 2020 she waselected the 2021 Vice President of OPTICA, formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA), and is currently(2023) the President of OPTICA. Since 2014, every year she has been named by Thomson Reuters as a top 1%
highly cited researcher in the field of Physics.
Gaeta received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Optics from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY in
1983, 1985, and 1991, respectively. He remained there as a postdoctoral associate from 1991 – 1992. Gaeta
joined Columbia Engineering as the David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science in2015. Prior to that, Gaeta was the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering at Cornell University and was
Chair of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics from 2011 – 2014. He has published more than 300
journal articles in quantum and nonlinear photonics. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Optica from 2014-2020 and Chair of the Optica Publications Council in 2022. He co-founded XscapePhotonics, Inc. in 2022 and is currently serving as the CEO. He is a Fellow of the Optica, APS, and IEEE, and aThomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, and was awarded the 2019 Charles H. Townes Medal from Optica.

Auditorium 1
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Monday

Prof. Kostantin Lukin received his diploma in radiophysics and electronics from
Kharkov State University, Ukraine, in 1973. He is head of the Laboratory for
Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (LNDES), at the O. Ya. Usikov
Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Science of
Ukraine (IRE NASU). He completed his candidate of sciences thesis at IRE
14:00 to 14:30
NASU and defended it at Moscow State University (MSU) in 1980. He
completed his doctor of science dissertation in physical electronics in IRE NASU
and defended it at Kharkov State University in 1989. Dr. Lukin was leader ofKonstantin Alexandrovich Lukin many international research and development projects on noise radar systems andsensors, and on SAR imaging and microwave monitoring of the environment.

Education: BS Electronic Engineering, 2008, at Shangai Jiao Tong University; PhD Electrical andComputer Engineering, at University of Texas at Austin. Experience: Himax (Staff Engineer),
2013-14; Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley, 2014-18; Co-founder of Raydian Inc (2017-18);
Rech Lead Manager at Didi, 2018-22; Applied Research Scientist at Meta, since 2022, where hedoes hardware research of AR/VR Metaverse. Skills: Optics, MEMS, semiconductor fabrication.

16:00 to 16:30

Youmin Wang

Auditorium 2
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Monday

14:00 to 14:30

Lilia Coronato Courrol

Bachelor's Degree in Physics from PUC São Paulo (1987), Master's (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from USP. She isa Lecturer at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), where she joined in 2006 and is currently in theposition of Prof. Holder. She was head of the Department of Physics between 2017-2020. She works in thegraduate program in Technology and Sustainability Sciences at Unifesp Diadema and collaborates with:
Instituto Butantã, IPEN-SP, and King Saudi University. She has experience in Physics with an emphasis on
Optics and Spectroscopy of Condensed Matter; She works mainly on the following topics: theranostics, laser,
biosensors, crystals, amorphous, spectroscopy, lipoproteins, atherosclerosis, fluorescence microscopy,
nanotechnology, optical diagnosis, liquid biopsy, among others. Journal of Luminescence, Journal of
Fluorescence, Ultrasound in Biology and Medicine, among others. Invention patents: BR102014016592-A2,
BR200602279-A2; BR200602279-B1 and BR9600093-A5. Researcher at INCT-Fx, National Institute of
Science and Technology of Complex Fluids of CNPq (2009-present). Member of the Brazilian Society ofPhysics, and of the Brazilian Society of Optics and Photonics.

Associate Professor at USP at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (SEL) at the School ofEngineering of São Carlos (EESC). Graduated in Electrical Engineering (Unicamp, 2002), Master's (Unicamp,2005) and Doctorate (Unicamp, 2009) in Electrical Engineering, with post-doctorate at Unicamp/UPenn(Philadelphia, USA). He has a theoretical-numerical research lines in photonics, light-matter interaction
problems for applications in optical trapping and manipulation, metamaterials and plasmonics for nano-circuits,
and microstructured light beams and non-diffractive beam modeling for applications in biomedical optics ,telecommunications, holography, volumetric displays and atomic guidance. His current research projects merge
the above lines, with an emphasis on microstructured beams and non-diffractive waves for trapping andmicromanipulation of micro and nanometric. Recently, he started a line of research in brain-computer interfaces
for entertainment, games and the metaverse, aiming at mind control of three-dimensional volumetric displays.

16:00 to 16:30

Leonardo Ambrosio

Auditorium 3
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Monday

14:00 to 14:30

Diego José Rátiva Milán

16:00 to 16:30

Sidney José Lima Ribeiro

Diego Rátiva is Associate Professor (Free Lecturer) of the Computer Engineering course at the University of
Pernambuco (UPE), permanent member and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Systems Engineering at
UPE, permanent member of the Graduate Program in Engineering of Computing at UPE. He also holds the
position of Manager of the Research Division at the Polytechnic School of Pernambuco and is a technicalscientific adviser to the Institute of Technological Innovation (IIT) at UPE. He is Managing Director of theBrazilian Society of Optics and Photonics (SBFOTON) and IEEE senior member. He is editor in chief of the
Journal of Applied Engineering and Research (REPA) and a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Latin
American Transactions. He coordinates Research and Development Projects with different industries in theareas of: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) of Industrial Machines, Digital Twins and Data Analytics ofIndustrial Lines. Other research topics are in the areas of optical instrumentation, design of optical devices forsolar collection, and intelligent algorithms for optical control systems.
Director of the Institute of Chemistry UNESP (2020-2024). Full Professor at the Institute of Chemistry-UNESPin Araraquara, Bachelor in Chemistry (UNESP-1982), Master in Inorganic Chemistry (UNESP- 1987) andDoctor in Inorganic Chemistry (UNESP-UFPE -1992). Full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences(ABC) and of the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo (ACIESP). Fellow of the European Academyof Sciences. Coordinator of the international network "Materias for the Future (CAPES-PRINT-UNESP). Vicecoordinator of the National Institute of Photonics (InFO). Researcher 1A CNPq. Postdoctoral at École Centrale
Paris- 1994 and CNET-France Telecom- 1995, working with transparent glass-ceramics and lasers. Works inthe area of Inorganic Chemistry and its implications in Materials Science, Spectroscopy and Chemistry
Teaching. Ongoing projects involve natural polymers (bacterial cellulose and silk fibroin), organic-inorganic
hybrids, light (optical fibers and thin films), porous materials and luminescent markers for Medicine. He is
Associate Editor of the journal "Frontiers in Chemistry- Inorganic Chemistry" and member of the editorial
board of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology and Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, he is also
scientific advisor to the main agencies in the country, NSF (United States), CNR (Italy) and several scientificjournals. He was a visiting researcher at NIRIM, Japan. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Trento in
Italy, at the Universities of Angers, Bordeaux and Toulouse, France, University of Aveiro ,Portugal, and UFJF

Tuesday, August 1st
UNICAMP Convention Center
Auditorium 3
09:00 to 12:30 Plenary Session - Tuesday

09:00 to 9:45

Amr Helmy

09:45 to 10:30

Carmem Menoni

Amr S. Helmy joined the department of Electrical and Computer engineering of the University of Toronto witha mixed experience in academic as well as industrial settings. He received both his MSc (1995) and PhD (1999)
degrees from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in the field of photonics. Between 2000 and 2004 he joined
Agilent Technologies, where he was involved in developing different photonic devices ranging from highreliability submarine-class lasers, to un-cooled single mode lasers, to integrated photonic circuits. Dr. Helmy’s
research interests include quantum/non-linear integrated photonic devices/circuits and nano-photonic
devices/circuits using hybrid metallic architectures. The application domains, where his group contributes,
include optical signal processing, communications and sensing. He is currently the Vice President for the IEEE
Photonics Society and has been Editor for several IEEE and OSA journals and has also chaired flagshipconferences for IEEE and OSA; namely CLEO and IEEE IPC.
Carmen S. Menon, University Distinguished Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Colorado State
University, also holds appointments in the department of Chemistry, and the School of Advanced Materials
Discovery. Prof. Menoni’s group investigates the synthesis of amorphous thin film oxides by sputtering anduses spectroscopic and other material diagnostics to identify their structural organization at the nanoscale.
Through a combination of fundamental understanding of the optical and structural properties of the thin films
materials and device engineering, Prof. Menoni research is advancing the state-of-art in interference coatings
for ultra-high intensity lasers and for gravitational wave detectors. Menoni is also involved in using highbrightness coherent beams of light of wavelengths between 10-50 nm for optics applications such as nanoscale
imaging, ablation and chemical imaging. Prof. Menoni is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic
Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the International Society for Optics and Photonics(SPIE). Prof. Menoni was President of the IEEE Photonics Society in 2020-2021.

Federico Capasso joined Harvard University in 2003 after 27 years at Bell Labs where his career advanced frompostdoctoral fellow to VP for Physical Research. His contributions include band structure engineering, thequantum cascade laser, MEMS based on the Casimir effect and the first measurement of the repulsive Casimirforce, metasurfaces including the generalized laws of refraction and reflection and high performance
metalenses. He is cofounder and a board member of Metalenz, which commercializes metaoptics for highvolume markets.

11:00 to 11:45

Federico Capasso
Aydogan Ozcan is the Chancellor’s Professor and the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at UCLA andan HHMI Professor with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is also the Associate Director of the
California NanoSystems Institute. Dr. Ozcan holds more than 60 issued/granted patents, and is the co-author of
more than 1000 peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals/conferences. He is elected Fellow of
National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Optica/OSA, AAAS, SPIE, IEEE, AIMBE, RSC, APS and the
Guggenheim Foundation, and is a Lifetime Fellow Member of Optica, NAI, AAAS, and SPIE. Dr. Ozcan is
also listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science.

11:45 to 12:30

Aydogan Ozcan

Auditorium 1
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Tuesday

Azizur Rhaman

Professor B. M. Azizur Rahman received BSc Eng and MSc Eng degrees in Electrical Engineering with
distinctions from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1976
and 1979, respectively. He received his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from University College,
London, in 1982. From 1976-79 he was a Lecturer at the Electrical Engineering Department, BUET. Aftercompleting his PhD he joined University College London as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and continued his
research work on the finite element modelling of optical waveguide until 1988. In1988 he joined the Electrical,
Electronic and Information Engineering Department of City University, London, as a Lecturer, where he is now
a Professor.

Hakan Urey

Hakan Urey is a Professor of Electrical Eng. at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. He was a visiting Professor at
Cambridge Univ., UK, Boğaziçi University, Turkey, and Stanford Univ, USA. He received the BS degree from Middle
East Technical Univ., Ankara, in 1992, and MS and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996 and in
1997, all in Electrical Eng.. After his PhD, he joined Microvision Inc.-Seattle as Research Engineer and played a keyrole in the development of the Retinal Scanning Display technology. He was the Principal System Engineer when heleft Microvision to join the faculty of Eng. at Koç Univ. in 2001. His current research interests are Augmented Reality,
3D displays, MEMS/MOEMS, micro-optics, optical and biological sensors. He has more than 60 patents, all of whichhave been licensed to companies and led to a number of commercial products. He founded 5 technology startup
companies which are spinoffs from his research lab at Koç University. He is a member of Science Academy in
Turkey and fellow of OPTICA

14:00 to 14:30

16:00 to 16:30

Auditorium 2
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Tuesday

14:00 to 14:30

Darli Mello

Darli Mello studied Electrical Engineering at the RWTH-Aachen, Germany, and at the State University ofCampinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, where he graduated in 2000. In 2002 he received the M. Sc. degree from theInstitute for Communications Engineering (LNT) at the Munich University of Technology (TUM), Germany.
During his masters studies, he carried out experimental and theoretical work at the Siemens research labs inMunich. In 2006 he received the Ph.D. degree from UNICAMP after research stays at the TUM and theCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech). After his Ph.D. studies, he spent one year with Padtec Optical
Components and Systems as a senior technology engineer. From August 2008 to March 2014, he was with theElectrical Engineering Department (ENE) of the University of Brasilia (UnB) as an Assistant Professor. Since
March 2014, he serves as Assistant Professor at the Communications Department (DECOM) of the School ofElectrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC), University of Campinas (Unicamp). From January 2019 toJanuary 2020, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. His main research interests are opticaltransmission and networking.

He holds a degree in Applied Physics from the State University of Campinas (1989), a master's degree inElectrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (1992), a doctorate (1996) and post-doctorate(2012) in Electrical Engineering from the University College London and associate professor at area of
Telecommunications and Telematics (2010), with emphasis on Optical Communications. He is currently
Associate Professor III at the State University of Campinas. He has experience in the field of OpticalCommunications, working mainly on the following subjects: optical amplifiers, WDM and OFDM systems,
optoelectronic generation/conversion of signals and coherent systems.

16:00 to 16:30

Aldário Chrestani Bordonalli

Auditorium 3
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Tuesday

14:00 to 14:30

Niklaus Ursus Wetter

Niklaus Ursus Wetter holds a BA in Physics from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - ETH(1988 - Switzerland) and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Technology from the Institute for Energy and Nuclear Research(1993). He is currently a senior researcher at the National Nuclear Energy Commission at IPEN / SP and a
postgraduate professor at the University of São Paulo USP. As manager of Internationalization, he has so far
implemented 14 bilateral agreements with universities and institutes around the world, including the Battelle
Energy Alliance, which encompasses eight of the largest federal research institutions in the US. He specializes
in laser development and operates in the main segments: Diode lasers, waveguides, solid state lasers andmaterials for laser media, laser applications in life sciences, lasers in nuclear applications and Raman
spectroscopy. Since 2008 he has been developing light sources in disordered materials, or "Random Lasers", forthe purpose of applications in optical devices.

Graduated (1994), master's (1997) and doctorate (2001) in Physics from the Federal University of Pernambuco.
He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (2001-2002) and was a
research fellow at the Minimally Invasive Surgical Technologies Institute at Cedars Sinai Medical Center(2002-2003). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics and Systems at UFPE. He
works in the undergraduate courses in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, in the graduate program inElectrical Engineering and in the graduate program in Biomedical Engineering at UFPE. His research topics
are: biomedical optics, nanobiophotonics, biomaterials spectroscopy, optical coherence tomography and optical
microscopy.

16:00 to 16:30

Renato Evangelista de Araújo

Wednesday, August 2nd
UNICAMP Convention Center
Auditorium 3
09:00 to 12:30 Plenary Session - Wednesday

After completing his PhD from the University of the Basque Country in 1993, Javier García de Abajo spent
three years as a visiting researcher at Berkeley National Lab. He then became a Research Professor at the
Spanish CSIC and eventually moved to ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques in Barcelona in 2013 as an
ICREA Research Professor. García de Abajo is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the OpticalSociety of America. His research interests include theoretical studies on electron microscope spectroscopies,
atomic collisions, quantum phenomena at the nanoscale, and various aspects of nanophotonics such as grapheneand two-dimensional polaritonics, optical sensing, and quantum friction. He has co-authored 400+ articles thathave been cited 55,000+ times, with an h index of 114 according to March 2023 Google Scholar data.

09:00 to 9:45

Javier García de Abajo

09:45 to 10:30

Boon Ooi

Boon Ooi received his pre-college education in Penang, Malaysia. He earned the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees inelectronics and electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow (U.K.) in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He wasan Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) from 1996 to 2000. He co-founded a
photonics startup in Pleasanton, California (U.S.A.), and led the company as VP for Technology Development fromearly 2000 to late 2003. He joined Lehigh University (Pennsylvania, USA) where he held an Associate Professor
position and headed the Photonics and Semiconductor Nanostructure Laboratory from 2003 to 2009. He has been with
KAUST since Fall 2009. Boon Ooi’s recent research is concerned with the study of III-Nitride based materials anddevices, and lasers for applications such as solid-state lighting, visible light and underwater wireless opticalcommunications, energy harvesting devices, and optical sensors. He is a regular grant panelist and reviewer of NSF(USA), NSERC (Canada), A*STAR and NRF (Singapore), Dutch Technology Foundation STW (Netherlands), FPS(Poland), ELIDEK (Greece), RGC (Hong Kong), QNRF (Qatar) and KACST (KSA). He was the Guest Editor for the
Journal Crystal Growth (Elsevier) in 2006/7, and Applied Physics A (Springer) in 2013/14, and Lead Editor of a
Feature Issue of Optics Express in 2018/2019. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. He is a
Fellow of IEEE, NAI, OPTICA and SPIE.
Bachelor in Physics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1988), Master in Physics from Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1990), and Ph.D. in Physique Quantique - Université Pierre et Marie Curie(Paris VI), École Normale Supérieure (1994). Lecturer at the University of São Paulo (2002). Visiting Professor atCornell University in 2012. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Foundation Institute of Theoretical Physics(Principia Foundation) and was a member of the International Council of the OSA (Optical Society) from 2014 to2018. He was the Topical Editor of the journal Optics Letters and the Associate Editor of the Brazilian Journal of
Physics. He is a full professor (MS-6) at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo. He was chairman of the
Postgraduate Committee and Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program of the Physics Institute of the University of São
Paulo. He is a member of the Physics Area Coordination of FAPESP. Presents the column Science and Scientists on
Radio USP. His areas of interest are Quantum Optics, Atomic Physics, and Quantum Information.

11:00 to 11:45

Paulo Nussenzveig

11:45 to 12:30

Sailing He

Prof. Sailing He is currently the Director for the Sino-Swedish Joint Research Center of Photonics (JORCEP).
After receiving his Ph.D. degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, he has worked at the Royal Institute ofTechnology (Stockholm, Sweden) as an assistant professor, an associate professor, and a full professor. Prof.
He's main research interest includes sub-wavelength photonics, optical sensing and communication,
electromagnetic waves and applications. He has first-authored one monograph (Oxford University Press) andauthored/co-authored over 700 papers in refereed international journals. Prof. He has served as General Chair(or Co-chair) for a number of international conferences, as well as in Steering Committee, Scientific Advisory
Board or Technical Program Committee for numerous international congress/conferences and journals. Prof. He
is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA (Optical Society of America) and SPIE (International Society for OpticalEngineering. Prof. He serves as co-editor-in-chief of Progress In Electromagnetics Research (PIER), in editorial
board of Laser & Photonics Reviews, Scientific Reports, and Electronics Letters.

Auditorium 1
13:30 to 17:30 Technical Session - Wednesday

13:30 to 14:00

Igor Feliciano da Costa

Igor graduated as a Technologist in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering,at Unicamp (2011), obtained a Master's degree in Telecommunications, Electrical and Electronics Engineering,from Inatel (2013), and a PhD in Microelectronics, Electrical and Electronics Engineering from UNIFEI (2016).
His experience includes: a Visiting Research Fellow at DTU, Technical University of Denmark (2016), an RF
and Antenna Research Collaborator at Embraer Defense & Security (2010-106), a Postdoctoral Scientist on RF
and Antennas at Inatel (2017); and an RF Antenna Engineer at Antenna Company (2017-19). He went to ESSSin 2019 to be a Business Development (Latin America and Iberia region) and, since 2022 works as Business
Development and CAE Technical Coordinator (Latin America and Iberia region) of ESSS.

John Dorighi is a photonics application engineer at Keysight Technologies. He received his B.S. degree inengineering at University of Colorado, Boulder, and his M.S. and Ph.D. engineering degrees at Northwestern
University in Evanston Il. His doctoral research focused on developing, modelling, and characterizing fiber
optic sensors for materials testing. He is currently engaging with university research labs to explore newphotonic application spaces. Current areas of focus include: photonic integrated circuits (PICs), quantum
communication, and optical 6G wireless. John works with customers to investigate high speed electrical andoptical measurements and is passionate about experimental lab work. He is a member of IEEE and has beenwith Hewlett Packard, Agilent, and Keysight Technologies since 1999.

14:00 to 14:45

John Dorighi14:45 to 15:15

Rosane Palissari

Bachelor's degree in Physics from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) (1984), Master's (1990) and
Ph.D. (2007) in Physics from UNICAMP. She worked as a Research Professional at the Institute of
Geosciences at UNICAMP, acquiring experience mainly in the area of SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy).
She participates as a contributor to the Chronology Group of the Dept. of Cosmic Rays and Chronology of the
Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics (IFGW) - UNICAMP, whose work emphasizes the area of Traces of
Nuclear Particles. Currently, she works as a Professional for University Affairs, being Supervisor of the
Operations area of the Specialized Technical Support Group (GATE), which includes the Multi-user Laboratory(LAMULT) of the IFGW, acquiring experience in the areas: AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy), FTIR (Fourier
Transform Infrared Spectroscopy), XRD (X Ray Diffraction) and Raman Spectroscopy.

Luis Hecker is an Electrical Engineer, M.Sc., with more than 15 years of experience in Optics and Photonics.
He is currently working as Photonics Director and Site Leader of Lumentum in Brazil, leading highperformance R&D engineering teams on the complete product development cycle of PICs, Devices, and15:15 to 15:30

Modules for high-capacity optical communications systems. Has 6 patents, 5 technology products currently inthe market, and more than 90 papers published in leading journals and conferences in the field of photonics andoptical communications.
Luis H. Hecker de Carvalho

16:00 to 16:15

Carmelo J. A. Bastos-Filho

Carmelo J. A. Bastos Filho is Pro-Dean of Graduate Studies, Research and Innovation, and Associate Professor
at the Polytechnic School of Pernambuco, University of Pernambuco (UPE). He is a professor at UPE. He was
Chief Scientist of the Technological Park of Electro-electronics of the State of Pernambuco between 2016-2020.
From 2020 to 2022, he was the director of innovation environments and higher education at the secretary ofscience, technology and innovation in Pernambuco. He is the coordinator of the Rota TIC Mangue Digital, ajoint action with SUDENE and MDR. He is on the advisory board of ISI TICs SENAI. He is the coordinator of
the specialization in Artificial Intelligence at UPE and deputy coordinator of the residency in data science forthe automotive sector with Stelantis. He was coordinator of the Specialization Program / Technological
Residency in IP Network Engineering at UPE / Alcatel-Lucent / FITec, vice-coordinator of the Specialization in
Digital TV and Communications Networks at UPE. He was general coordinator of Graduate Studies at the
University of Pernambuco in 2015. After finishing his doctorate, his thesis was chosen by CAPES as the best
thesis in Brazil in the area of Engineering IV in 2005. He has published more than 300 complete articles. He hascoordinated several research projects funded by CNPq/Universal, FACEPE, FINEP, CHESF (R&D ANEEL),
FITec, Alcatel-Lucent and Fiat-Chrysler.

16:15 to 16:30 Darli Mello

Bio on Auditorium 2 - Tuesday’s Technical Session slot

16:30 to 16:45

Leonardo Didier Coelho graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from the Federal University of
Pernambuco. In 2005 and 2010 he received the title of master and doctor, respectively, from Technische
Universität München, Munich, Germany. During his master's and doctoral thesis, he carried out several
researches on modeling, simulation and optimization of optical communication systems. In 2006 and 2007 heworked on nonlinear phase noise in optical communication systems at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut in
Berlin, Germany. He spent three months in 2009 at the Department of Photonic Engineering, Technical
University of Denmark, Denmark, as a visiting researcher working with fiber optic parametric amplifiers. From2011 to 2014, he worked at Infinera (formerly part of Nokia Siemens Networks and Coriant R&D GmbH) in
Munich, Germany. He is currently Professor at the Department of Electronics and Systems at the Federal
University of Pernambuco. His main interests include optimization of optical communication systems, opticalamplification, integrated photonics, fiber optic power supply and battery management systems. doctor Coelho
received the Bund der Freunde der TU München prize for the best Doctoral Thesis in Electrical Eng. in 2011.

Leonardo Didier Coelho

16:45 to 17:00

Helio Waldman

17:00 to 17:15

Raul C. Almeida Jr.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (1966), Master's in ElectricalEngineering - Stanford University (1968) and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - Stanford University (1971). He
is currently a retired full professor at the Fundação Universidade Federal do ABC and at the State University ofCampinas. He has experience in Electrical Engineering, with emphasis on Telecommunications, working
mainly on the following topics: optical networks; optical communications; route allocation, spectrum andmodulation format in elastic optical networks; optical spectrum management in fiber networks. He was the first
Dean of Research at Unicamp in the 1980s, and at UFABC from its foundation until 2009. He was Dean of
UFABC from 2010 to 2014, when he was compulsorily retired at the age of 70. He is currently coordinating a
Fapesp thematic project on new strategies to face the threat of capacity exhaustion, within the scope of aprogram aimed at research associated with the Internet of the future, and collaborates with graduate programs at
Unicamp and UFABC.
Raul C. Almeida Jr. holds a degree in Electrical/Electronic Eng. from the UFPE (1999), a Master's degree inElectrical Eng. from Unicamp (2001) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Eng. from Unicamp (2004). In 2005 he was a
postdoctoral fellow in the optical networks group at UFPE as a regional scientific development (DCR) fellow.
From 2006- 2011 he was a Senior Research Officer at the University of Essex, UK. In 2012 he returned to theoptical networks group at UFPE as a postdoctoral fellow and DCR fellow. Since 2012 he has been a professor at
the Depart. of Electronics and Systems (UFPE), being an Associate Professor since 2020. He participated andcollaborated with several research projects in England, financed by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and
EPSRC (Eng. & Physical Science Research Council), in partnership Brazil-Portugal (Capes-FCT), as aconsultant in the Portuguese project Morfeus, and, in Brazil, funded by Facepe, Ericsson, PadTec,
CNPq/Universal and FAPESP. He has experience in the area of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science withemphasis on telecom networks and systems, having worked mainly on: optical networks with wavelength,
optical networks with switching bursts and packets, WDM, delay-line buffers, route and wavelength allocation
under physical layer constraints and quality of service guarantees , analytical modeling, optimization, heuristics,
evolutionary algorithms, application of machine learning techniques in networks, mathematical programming,
numerical simulations, GMPLs, flat label routing, Internet of the future and elastic optical networks.

17:15 to 17:30

Nelson Fonseca

He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from PUC-Rio (1984), a Master's in Master's in Computer Sciencefrom PUC-Rio (1987), a Master's in Master In Computer Engineering - University of Southern California(1993) and PhD in Computer Engineering - University of Southern California (1994). He is a Full Professor at
Unicamp. He is a member of Unicamp's Institutional Development Evaluation Commission. He serves as Vice
President of Conferences for the IEEE Communications Society. He created the IEEE Latin America on
Communications conference, the IEEE Latin America Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications
and was co-founder of series of symposiums at IEEE Globecom/ICC conferences Technical coordinator of over
15 conferences. He also created the IEEE ComSoc Student Competition Program. He is Senior Technical Editor
for IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Systems Journal. He is a member of the advisory committee for
the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and a member of the Steering Committee for the IEEE
Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Computer Networks,
P2P Networking and Appl.cations, J. of Internet Services and Appl. and J. of the Brazilian Computer Society

Auditorium 2
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Wednesday

After his PhD in Physics, Andreas Seifert dedicated his career to optics and photonics. In brief: From spacetelescopes over optical microsystems to nanophotonics. First, he worked for many years in leadership positions
in Optical Industry at Carl Zeiss, Germany, and from 2007 at the University of Freiburg, Germany, as Group
Leader in the field of Microsystems Engineering, in particular Medical Optical Microsystems. In 2015 he joined
CIC nanoGUNE as Ikerbasque Research Professor and Group Leader in Nanoengineering. Current researchcombines nanotechnology with photonics, primarily with applications in the fields of medical diagnostics, foodcontrol and environmental monitoring.

14:00 to 14:30

Andreas Seifert

16:00 to 16:30

Lion Augel

Lion Augel is a Scientific Researcher at Fraunhofer IPMS, Germany. Education: BSc (2011) and MSc (2013) inElectric Engineering and Information Technology, and PhD (2019) in Microelectronics (“Plasmonic structures
on Ge photodiodes for the integration of collinear biosensors”), at the University of Sttutgart. Skills:
microelectronics, semiconductor manufacturing and optoelectronics. His interest in scientific work lies in theinteraction of radiation and matter. In particular, he has developed semiconductor optics with its wide range ofpossible applications and developments as an exciting field of work. Research objectives: Group-IV Photonic
Devices (design of nanophotonic structures; CMOS-compatible plasmonics, Fab-standard manufacturing
technology; electrical and photonic simulation); and Applications (multi- and hyperspectral imaging;
spectroscopy, photonic biosensing, photonic device metrology).

Niels Quack is a Swiss and German engineer specialized in optical micro engineering. He studied engineering
at EPFL and received his MSc degree in 2005. He then joined Jürg Dual's Institute for Mechanical Systems at
ETH Zurich as a PhD student and graduated in 2010."In 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Ming
C. Wu's Integrated Photonics Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley. From 2014 to 2015, he wassenior microelectromechanical systems engineer with Sercalo Microtechnology Inc. From 2015 to 2022 he wasan SNSF Assistant Professor with the EPFL, and head of the Photonic Micro- and Nanosystems Laboratory at
its school of engineering. Since January 2022 he is an Associate Professor in Micro- and Nanosystems at the
University of Sydney, Faculty of Engineering/School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering.

16:30 to 17:00

Niels Quack

Auditorium 3
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Wednesday

14:00 to 14:30

Rodrigo Szostak

16:00 to 16:30

Armando Albertazzi Gonçalves Jr

Rodrigo Szostak got his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at UEPG (2014). Then, at Unicamp,; he got a master’s
degree in chemistry on perovskite solar cells (PSCs) ( 2016). After thathe kept studying PSCs but started to
employ synchrotron radiation techniques to characterize the PSCs together with Dr. Hélio Tolentino, from
Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), which is part of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy
and Materials (CNPEM). Also, during his Ph.D., he spent one year at EPFL under professor Anders Hagfeldt
working on perovskite solar cells devices. Rodrigo got his Ph.D in 2021 and joined to Dr. Tolentino at
Carnauba beamline (Sirius/LNLS). His post-doctoral activities are focused on the development of in situ andoperando experimental setups to characterize PSCs at Carnauba beamline. Rodrigo has experience in perovskite
solar cells device preparation and characterization using synchrotron radiation through X-ray scattering (in situ
GIWAXS) and nano-FTIR techniques.
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering, at UFBA (1982), Master's (1984) and Ph.D. (1989) in MechanicalEngineering, at UFSC, and post-doctorate at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1991). He is a full professor at
the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where he joined in June 1987. He is the author of the book
Fundamentals of Scientific and Industrial Metrology (Ed. Manole 2008/2018). He was a member of theInternational Scientific Committee of about 40 congresses and president or vice-president of six of them. Since2008 he has been a SPIE Fellow. He was coordinator of the Graduate Program in Scientific and Industrial
Metrology in the periods 1996-2001, 2006-2011 and of the Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering in the
period 2013-2016. He assumed the Research Superintendence at UFSC from 2016 to 2022. He works in thearea of optical metrology, with emphasis on the development and application of techniques and equipment formeasuring the geometry and residual stresses of pipes and in the area of non-destructive testing with laser. Since
the 1990s, he has been strongly involved in the oil and gas sector.

Thursday, August 3rd
UNICAMP Convention Center
Auditorium 3
09:00 to 12:30 Plenary Session Thursday: 5th Webinar Brazilian Photonics Laboratories System SISFOTON - MCTI

Felipe Silva Bellucci

PhD in Science and Technology of Materials from Unesp and PhD in Physical Sciences from Universidad deValladolid - UVa/Spain. Performed Research internship at Post-Doctoral level at the Faculty of Engineering of Ilha
Solteira - FEIS/UNESP (2014-2016), Research internship at Post-Doctoral level Nov/13 to Mar/14) and PhD internship
PDEE/CAPES (Sep/10 to Aug/11) at the Facultad de Ciencias of the Universidad de Valladolid - UVa/Spain. He is a
specialist in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Management from the National School of Public
Administration-ENAP (2017-18) and has an MBA in Innovation Management from the School of International
Business and Entrepreneurship (Germany). He has experience in the areas of applied research, technologicaldevelopment, innovation and entrepreneurship and new technology-based businesses in Nanotechnology, Advanced
Materials, Photonics and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing, as well as a Specialist and MBA in Management
and Public Policy in S,T&I. He currently occupies the permanent position of Full Technologist 3-III in Science,
Technologies and Innovation (Law No. 8.691/93), General Coordinator of Enabling Technologies, of the Secretariat of
Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations - MCTI in Brasilia/DF.

Vanderlei Bagnato

Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato simultaneously completed a Bachelor's Degree in Physics - USP, and Materials
Engineering - UFSCar in 1981 and completed his PhD in Physics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT in 1987. He is currently a professor at the University of São Paulo. He was director of the Institute ofPhysics of São Carlos from 2018 to 2022. He has published around 700 articles in specialized journals. He has
29 book chapters and 7 published books. He has supervised more than 100 theses between masters anddoctorates, in the areas of Physics, Dentistry and Medicine. He received several awards and honors. He works
in the area of Atomic Physics and Applications of Optics in Health Sciences. He works with cold atoms, BoseEinstein Condensates and photodynamic actions in cancer and microbiological control. He is a member of theBrazilian Academy of Sciences, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, the Vatican's PontificalAcademy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences (USA). He coordinates a Research Center, inwhich basic and applied sciences coexist in harmony. It carries out various activities of TechnologicalInnovation and science dissemination.

09:00 to 9:15

09:15 to 9:30

09:30 to 9:45

Lauro June Queiroz Maia

Bachelor in Physics from UFMS (2000), Master in Applied Physics from IFSC-USP (2003) and PhD in
Cotutela regime in Applied Physics by IFSC-USP and in Physics of Materials and Nanostructures by the
Université Joseph Fourier/France (Current Université Grenoble Alpes-UGA) (2006). He held a Post-Doctoral
Internship at IQ-UNESP. From June/2017 to May/2018 he carried out a Senior Internship (Post-Doctoral
Internship) at the Ecole Polytechnique Montréal/Université de Montréal, in the Departments of PhysicalEngineering and Electrical Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. doctor Raman Kashyap for the study ofoxide materials for laser cooling. He is currently Associate Professor IV at the Institute of Physics at the Federal
University of Goiás. Since April/2021 he is the Director of the Institute of Physics at UFG. From January to
March/2020 and from November to December/2021 he carried out scientific and technological research
activities at the Institut Néel of the CNRS de Grenoble in France, as an Invited Professor at the Université
Grenoble Alpes. He has experience in Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, with emphasis on
Optical and Spectroscopic Properties of Condensed Matter, acting on the following topics: thin films,
waveguides, optical nanothermometry, nanostructured particles, clay, advanced ceramics, structural ceramics ,glasses and glass-ceramics, photoluminescent emission, optical spectroscopy, 2nd harmonic generation (GSH),
thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction, scanning and transmission electron microscopy and AFM, vibrational
infrared and Raman spectroscopies, method of polymeric precursors and sol-gel process.

Graduated in Bachelor of Physics from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (1999), did a Direct
Doctorate in Physics from the University of São Paulo (2004) and Post-Doctorate in Plant Physiology at
University of Essex, UK (2011). He is an associate professor IV at the Federal University of Mato Grosso doSul, working for a period as a senior visiting professor at the University of Essex, UK (2019 - 2020). Leader of
the Optics and Photonics Group (GOF) and coordinator of the Optics and Photonics Laboratory (LOFt),
09:45 to 10:00
recently accredited to the National System of Photonics Laboratories (SISFÓTON-MCTI). Member of the
National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT) of Basic Optics and Applied to Life Sciences, in which
LOFt is also associated. He has experience in the area of Optical Spectroscopy and Materials, working mainlyon the following topics: Photoinactivation of Microorganisms, Development of Materials and Methods forAnderson Rodrigues Lima Caires
Environmental Assessment and Optical Characterization of Biological Systems, Biofuels and Materials.

10:00 to 10:15

Moisés Felipe Teixeira

He currently works as a research engineer at the SENAI Laser Innovation Institute in Joinville, Santa Catarina.
He specializes in laser surface treatment, such as: localized heat treatment, coating (Laser Cladding) and surface
modification with the addition of an alloying element (Laser Alloying). He is a Materials Engineer graduatedfrom UFSC, with a Masters in Science and Materials Engineering also from UFSC, with a dissertation in thearea of reducing wear through the Laser Alloying process, in partnership with the Fraunhofer IPT Institute in
Aachen, Germany. He holds a PhD from UFSC in Materials Science and Engineering with a work topic in thearea of reducing wear on grinding hammers through laser coating. He is also CEO and co-founder of thecompany Nanogreen Desenvolvimento Ltda.

10:15 to 10:30

Marcelo Nalin

11:00 to 11:15

Débora M. B. Pereira Milori

He holds a degree in Chemistry from the Unesp (1995), a Master's degree in Chemistry from Unesp (1998), a
PhD in Chemistry - Universite de Rennes I (2002) and a PhD in Chemistry from the Instituto de Quimica Unesp(2002). He held a postdoctoral degree at the Université de Paris Sud (2002-2003) and a postdoctoral degree at
the Gleb Wataglin Institute of Physics at the State University of Campinas (2004-2007). He developed a Young
Researcher project with the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Sciences at UNESP in Bauru (2007-2009).
He was an adjunct professor at the Department of Chemistry at UFSCar in São Carlos, SP from August 2009 to
May 2013. He carried out an internship as a visiting researcher at ICMCB at the University of Bordeaux, France
from 08/2019 to 07/2020 . He has been a member of the Coordination of the Chemistry area at FAPESP sinceAugust 2022. He is currently a Professor MS5.3 at the Institute of Chemistry at UNESP in Araraquara, SP. He
has experience in the areas of Chemistry and Physics, with emphasis on Inorganic Chemistry, working mainlyon the following subjects: glasses and glass-ceramics with applications in photonics and magneto-opticalmaterials, photonic crystals and photosensitive materials.
Graduated, master's and doctorate in Physics from the Institute of Physics of São Carlos - University of São Paulo(USP), with specialization in optical techniques and photonics. Since 2001 she has been a researcher at Embrapa
Instrumentação, São Carlos/SP, where she is also, currently, the Deputy Head of Technology Transfer, which includes
an agenda of innovation and business with private companies. Her research area at Embrapa is optics and photonics
applied to agriculture and the environment, and, in 2021, she had approved, under her coordination, the first National
Laboratory of Agro-photonics, supported by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, within of the
SISFOTON initiative. She works with the development of methods, sensors and equipment for soil, plant, fertilizer andfood analysis. Along these lines, she highlights her unprecedented work, worldwide, in the development of an
automated method and equipment using optical emission spectroscopy with laser-induced plasma - LIBS - for thequantification of carbon, nutrients and contaminants in the soil, as well as the development of portable systems for the
early diagnosis of diseases in plants in the field. During her research activities she established several international
cooperations with institutions in Europe and USA. She has around 500 published works, 130 of which in indexedinternational journals with more than 4500 citations. Within the scope of acting as Head of Technology Transfer, she
was decisive in increasing the portfolio of projects in open innovation and/or in partnership with private companies; infour years the number of this type of project increased from 25% to more than 65% of Embrapa Instrumentação's
projects. Also noteworthy is her work supporting the development of startups, in articulation with investors andVenture Capitals.

Professor Newton C. Frateschi is a professor at the Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin from the State Universityof Campinas (IFGW UNICAMP). He was the executive director of the Inova Unicamp Innovation Agency from2017 to 2021. He was director of the IFGW-UNICAMP from 2014 to 2017 and deputy director of the same
institute from 2010 to 2014. Nanotechnologies at Unicamp from 2005 to 2010. From 2001 to 2003, Frateschi
served as a senior designer in optoelectronics in the advanced technology group for photonic devices at TNetworks Inc., in Pennsylvania, United States. He holds a Master's and PhD in Electronic Engineering from the
University of Southern California and a Bachelor's and Master's in Physics from IFGW Unicamp. Frateschi isalso a level 1 researcher at CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, leading the
IFGW's Device Research Laboratory (LPD). He is the author and co-author of several scientific papers andseveral patents, mainly in the fields of optoelectronics and photonics.

11:15 to 11:30

Newton C. Frateschi

11:30 to 11:45

Anderson Stevens L. Gomes

11:45 to 12:00

Maria José Pontes

Anderson S. L. Gomes completed his Graduation (Licenciatura, 1978) and Masters in Physics (1982) at the Physics
Department of the Federal University of Pernambuco. He held a Ph.D. in Physics at the Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine, University of London (1986), and a postdoctoral degree at Brown University (1992). He is a
Full Professor at the Department of Physics at UFPE, where he has been a permanent professor since 1990. He is apermanent member of the Physics and Dentistry PG programs (UFPE) and collaborator of the Materials Science PG
program, UNIVASF. His scientific activities are in the area of nanophotonics, biophotonics, non-linear optics andoptical communications. He is co-author of more than 300 scientific papers (H Factor: 36 Web of Science; Google
Scholar H Index 47) and has supervised 39 master's theses and 20 doctoral theses. He is a Fellow of OPTICA (formerly
OSA), where he was President of the International Council (2011-2012). He acts as a referee for several international
journals in his field of knowledge (Optics Letters, Optics Express, Physical Review, J. of Biomedical Optics,
Electronics Letters, etc). He is associate editor of the journal Light: Science and Applications (Nature Group) from2019-2025. He is Full Member (since 2015) and Vice-President for NE and ES (2022-2025) of the Brazilian Academyof Sciences and elected Fellow of The World Academy of Science (TWAS). For more details on the lines of research,see www.andersongomes.com

She holds a degree in Physics from the State University of Campinas (1985), a Master's degree in Physics fromthe Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics (1989) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty ofElectrical and Computing Engineering (1996) - UNICAMP. She has worked in several Science and Technology
Institutions, in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching, Research, supervision and guidance of students. Thisis the case of CEFET/PR, today the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR) and the Military
Institute of Engineering (IME). She also worked at Optiwave Corporation Inc., Ottawa-Canada in thedevelopment of software products for the design of amplifiers and optical systems. She is currently Associate
Professor IV at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. She was
Director of Technological Innovation, the Nucleus of Technological Innovation at UFES. She chaired theBrazilian Society of Microwaves and Optoelectronics-SBMO for two consecutive terms. She currently works in
the Division of Cooperation Agreements of the Secretariat for International Relations-SRI at UFES. She has
been working in recent years on the modeling and practical implementation of fiber devices, working mainly on
the following topics: optical amplifiers, plasmonic effect and fiber sensors, fiber nonlinearities, application ofdevices in WDM networks, high-rate systems.

Wagner de Rossi

Completed his doctorate in Nuclear Technology USP in 1995. He is currently a supervisor at USP, seniortechnologist III of the National Nuclear Energy Commission and head of the Center for Lasers and Applicationsat IPEN. He has published 63 articles in specialized journals and 210 papers in annals of events. He has 9 bookchapters and 1 book published. He has 15 technological products, 31 processes or techniques, 4 of which areregistered, in addition to 7 other technical production items. He participated in dozens of events abroad and in
Brazil. Among completed or ongoing supervision are 25 master's dissertations, 8 doctoral theses and 4 postdoctoral supervisions, in addition to having supervised 5 scientific initiation works in the areas of Physics,
Mechanical Engineering and Materials and Metallurgical Engineering. He has received 5 awards and/or honors.
Between 1982 and 2020, he participated in 34 research and technological development projects, of which hecoordinated 12. He currently participates in 8 technological development projects, coordinating 6 of these. He is
the coordinator of a FAPESP thematic project that has the participation of 18 doctors and 15 postgraduate
students from IPEN and 05 other partner institutions. He works in the field of lasers, specializing in
manufacturing processes. He provides technical consultancy and teaches courses on industrial laser processes tocompanies. Currently, he develops micromachining processes with ultrashort laser pulses, with which he isproducing opto-microfluidic systems for applications in the areas of chemistry, biochemistry and health.

12:00 to 12:15

Denise Maria Zezell

12:15 to 12:30

João Batista Rosolem

OPTICA FELLOW since 2022. Bachelor in Physics (1984), MSc in Physics (1987) and PhD in Sciences fromUnicamp (1991). Postdoc at the International Center for Theoretical Physics - Trieste, Italy (1992) and at IPEN
/CNEN-SP (1992-1995). She has been a full reserarcher at CNEN since 1995, where she was Manager of theLasers and Applications Center in 2008. From 2009 to 2013 she was the Coordinator of the Professional Master
Program in Lasers in Dentistry at IPEN, together with School of Dentistry- (USP). She was the creator andsince 2019 is the Dean of the Professional Master Course in Radiation Technology in Health Sciences, IPEN.
Since 2017, she has been appointed OPTICA Traveling Lecturer, a member of Education Commission from
CNEN. Member of the Deliberative Council of the Brazilian Photonics Society (2021-current) and its
Newsletter editor for Biophotonics (2018-2019). Since 2020 is member of the Committee of Photonics (MCTI).
Since 2023 she coordinates a CNPq INCT INTERAS (Radiation Technology in Health Science). Works in thefollowing fields: Physics, Biophotonics ( Optical and Spectroscopic Properties of biological tissues mainly by
micro-FTIR and fluorescence, infrared thermography, aiming at the development of new diagnostic andtherapeutic processes for clinical applications of lasers in dentistry and medicine). She has been dedicated to thesearch for biomarkers to determine the effects of ionizing radiation on biological tissues as well as to study theearly diagnosis of skin and breast tumors by vibrational spectroscopy (FTIR optical biopsy).
Graduation, master’s degree and doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1986, 1990 and 2005, respectively,
obtained at SEL-EESC-USP. In 1988 he carried out the experimental part of his MSc’s work at CPQD anddeveloped a pioneering system of bidirectional transmission and multiplexing by optical fibers, which was
employed by many Brazilian telecom companies. From 1993-96, alreadyb as a CPQD’s researcher, he led thedevelopment and transfer of EDFA’s technology. From 1997 to 2005 he participated in the development of
DWDM systems, concomitantly with the use of EDFAs for metropolitan and long distance systems. All thesetechnologies were transferred to Brazilian companies. Since his PhD he has coordinated and led a team ofresearchers of the Laboratory of Optical Sensing and Monitoring (LSMO), at CPQD, aiming developing
innovating devices and sensing systems applied to electricity, oil and gas, railway systems, mining, andsecurity. He has published 50 articles in specialized journals, 5 chapters in books and 177 works in annals of
events, authored and co-authored of 53 patent applications, of which 5 patents have already been granted abroadand 30 in Brazil. He has co-supervised 5 PhD students and 3 Master's students at Unicamp, USP and INPE. He
received 23 awards and/or honors. He is a TPC member of OFS, OWPT and IMOC. He is a CNPq DT-1D
scholarship holder and a member of the CNPq Advisory Committee for Technological Training and Innovationin DT scholarships. Since 2021 he has been coordinator of the Sisfóton-MCTI Integrator Laboratory.

Auditorium 1
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Thursday
Gustavo Wiederhecker holds an Associate Professor position at the University of Campinas, his researchlaboratory targets at harnessing nonlinear optical phenomena within microphotonic devices, with emphasis in
the interaction between light and mechanical waves. He has been elected an affiliate member of the Brazilian
Academy of Sciences for the 2019-2024 term. Before joining University of Campinas in 2011, he earned his
B.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Physics from the same University and has been a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell
University from 2008-2011. His Ph.D thesis has been awarded with the "Grande Prêmio CAPES José Leite
Lopes" on 2009.

14:00 to 14:30

Gustavo Wiederhecker

16:00 to 16:30

Thiago Alegre

Thiago Alegre is a professor at the Department of Applied Physics at the Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics at
the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) since 2011, where he leads a research group on classical andquantum interactions between light and acoustic waves in micro- and nanostructured. He is currently the IFGW
Undergraduate Coordinator (2021) and previously was Associate Undergraduate Coordinator at the same
institution between 2019-2021. He was elected an affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences forthe 2019-2024 term and Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the APL Photonics magazine (AIP) since2019. Doctor of Science (2008) and Bachelor of Physics from the State University of Campinas (2003),
Postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (2011) and in 2020 he received the titleof Livre Docência from Unicamp. Between 2014 and 2018 he coordinated the LIEF extension laboratory aimed
at dissemination and education in basic science. He is also a member of the Brazilian Society of Physics, theBrazilian Society of Photonics and the Optical Society of America.

Auditorium 2
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Thursday

Tecnologist in telecommunications, master and doctor in electrical engineering, all titles obtained at the State
University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where he also did postdoctoral work, under the supervision of Prof.
doctor Evandro Conforti. He is currently an Executive MBA student in Strategic and Economic Business
Management at FGV. He is a member of Optica (formerly OSA), a senior member of the IEEE, a founding
member of the FEEC-UNICAMP Postgraduate Association (APOGEEU) and a founding member of theBrazilian Society of Optics and Photonics (SBFoton). Since 2016 he has been a researcher at CPQD, where heacts as technical project coordinator and leader of the Optical Communications technology platform. He is alsoa part-time Wine Sommelier and a full-time father.

14:00 to 14:30

Rafael Figueiredo

16:00 to 17:30

Felipe Rudge Barbosa

He holds a bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) in Physics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro(1976), a Master's degree in Physics (M.Sc.) from the State University of Campinas (1979) and a PhD (Ph.D.)
in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (1992). He is a collaborating professor at theFaculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of Campinas (FEEC-Unicamp); and seniorresearcher at INCT-Namitec, at the Information Technology Center - MCT/CTI, in Campinas SP. He has
extensive experience in academic and business environments, in the areas of Electrical Engineering andCondensed Matter Physics, with emphasis on Lasers, Optical Fibers and their applications, andTelecommunications Systems. He works in R&D and technological innovation, with teaching and consulting
activities as a specialist in Optical Communications systems, Optical Metropolitan Networks and access,photonic switching, semiconductor devices, optical and optoelectronic components, and opto-mechanics ofprecision. He has dozens of papers published in conferences and national and international journals. He is amember of SBF, SBrT, member and advisor of SBMO, consultant to ITU-T, and member of OSA and IEEE
ComSoc. He received two professional awards. Currently CNPq DTI-1 scholarship holder.

Auditorium 3
14:00 to 17:30 Technical Session - Thursday

He holds a degree in Electrical Industrial Engineering (2002) and a Master's degree in Industrial Informatics
with an emphasis on opto-electronics (2003) from the Federal Technological University of Paraná. In 2008 shecompleted a PhD in Engineering at the Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories / Optical Fiber Technology
Center and School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney. She is interested in
the following areas: optical fibers, optical devices for communication, optical sensors, high power lasers, fiber
optic lasers, laser light material processing, non-linear optics, electro-optical coupling and molecular selfassembly ".

14:00 to 14:30

Cícero Martelli

Completed his doctorate in Physics at Unicamp. He was Senior Researcher III at IEAv, where he was Head of
the Optical Components Manufacturing Workshop, having also been head of the Photonics Division. Permanent
professor of the graduate program in Space Sciences and Technologies (ITA). He works in the area of Physics,
with emphasis on Optics. He works in the field of instrumentation, with an emphasis on applications in optics
and metrology. In the area of materials, he maintains joint work with other institutions, in the field of lasers anddentistry. The development and production of precision optical components, including the deposition andcharacterization of coatings, is his main activity. He was Quality Manager at IEAv-CTA and responsible for the
Optical Surface Measurement Laboratory, which was Accredited by CGCRE. He was coordinator of the Areaof Applied Physics and Mathematics of the graduate at ITA, from October 2013 to April 2016.

16:00 to 16:30

Álvaro José Damião