Light & Materials Synergy Meeting 2026: Sensing and sensors

Time and place

October 14^th, 2026
Science Village Hall, The Loop, Rydbergs Torg 4, Lund

Preliminary Programme

8:30 Coffee and registration

8:55 The programme starts:

Introduction Light & Materials, Lund Laser Centre, NanoLund. Speakers: Tönu Pullerits, Anders Mikkelsen, Per Eng-Johnsson, and Per Mickwitz

Poster pitches

10:00 Coffee

10:30 Plenary talks: 

• Vaishali Adya, “Quantum enhanced sensing: from black holes to biological molecules”
• Johan Zetterberg
• Dmitry Baranov, “Sensing with Materials”

12:00 Lunch and posters

13:30 Parallel sessions part 1 

Quantum sensing

• Erik Lundblad (Atomic Physics) – “Global Entanglement Distribution using Rare-Earth Ion Quantum Processors”
• Andrea Cicovic (Solid State Physics) – “Protected charge readout scheme utilizing nonlinear resonators”
• David Busto (Atomic Physics) – “Ultrafast photoelectron quantum metrology” 
• Cornelia Gustafsson (Deep Light Vision, Atomic Physics) – “In vivo imaging of healthy human breast with ultrasound optical tomography”
• Marco Valentini (Solid State Physics) – “Quantum Topoelectronics with 2D Materials”

Laser-based sensing

• Zhiyong Wu (Combustion Physics) – “Spatiotemporal diagnostics of Aluminum droplet combustion: from condensed phase dynamics to gas phase reactions”
• Donatas Zigmantas (Chemical Physics) – “More than sensing – light capture and transformation in photosynthetic bacteria”
• Kim Cuong Le (Combustion Physics) – “Advancing soot aerosol characterization via in-flight laser and x-ray diagnostics”
• Chen Guo (Atomic Physics) 
• Meng Li (Combustion Physics) – “Remote laser sensing of insect wing micro- and nanofeatures for in situ biodiversity monitoring”

14:45 Coffee and posters

15:45 Parallel sessions part 2

Sensing in biological systems

• Fredrik Höök (Chalmers) – “Label-free surface-sensitive scattering and fluorescence microscopy for characterizing lipid membranes and biological nanoparticle interactions”
• Pontus Nordenfelt (Cytely, Faculty of Medicine) – “Using data-driven microscopy to uncover the hidden”
• Jean-Baptiste Diop (Gasporox) – “Spectroscopic multi-sensing – Properties of pharmaceutical samples from porosimetry”
• Enrico Turato (Solid State Physics) – “Smart fluids – viscoelastic fluids in microfluidics for sensing and autonomous flow control”
• Anders Wittrup (Faculty of Medicine) – “Detecting delivery and activity of RNA based therapeutics with biological sensors”

Devices and material sensing

• Mattias Borg (Department of Electrical and Information Technology) – “Semiconductor-metal metamaterials enabling room temperature imaging in the mid-infrared”
• Klara Suchan (Synchrotron Radiation Research) – “Microsecond XPCS reveal how collective nanocrystal diffusion facilitates ordering into mesocrystals” 
• Julia Valderas Gutiérrez (Solid State Physics) – “Poking, probing and understanding biological systems with nanowires”
• Simon Liedtke (Theoretical chemistry) – “Making sense of photocatalysis: coarse-grained reaction-diffusion dynamics simulation”
• Leonardo Oliveira (Synchrotron Radiation Research) – “Imaging buried domains and phases in ferroelectric devices with hard X-rays”

17:10 Posters and pre-dinner drinks

19:00 Dinner and prizes

Organising committee:

• Anne-Lise Viotti anne-lise [dot] viotti [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (anne-lise[dot]viotti[at]fysik[dot]lu[dot]se);
• Ivan Scheblykin ivan [dot] scheblykin [at] chem [dot] lu [dot] se (ivan[dot]scheblykin[at]chem[dot]lu[dot]se);
• Edouard Berrocal edouard [dot] berrocal [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (edouard[dot]berrocal[at]fysik[dot]lu[dot]se);
• Oxana Klementieva oxana [dot] klementieva [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (oxana[dot]klementieva[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se);
• Peter Samuelsson peter [dot] samuelsson [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (peter[dot]samuelsson[at]fysik[dot]lu[dot]se)

Participating organisations

• Lund Laser Centre
• NanoLund
• The Profile Area Light & Materials

Registration

Register before October 1^st!