Keynote Speakers
Prof. Malte Gather
University of Cologne
Malte C. Gather is Humboldt Professor and founding director at the Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics at University of Cologne and holds a co-appointment at University of St Andrews. His research interests are at the interface of biophotonics and organic semiconductors, with particular focus on bio-implantable LEDs and lasers, mechanobiology, and strong light-matter coupling. He studied physics and material sciences at RWTH Aachen University and Imperial College London and received his PhD from University of Cologne in 2008. He previously worked at University of Iceland, Harvard University, TU Dresden and University of St Andrews.
Prof. Alfred Leitenstorfer
University of Konstanz
Alfred Leitenstorfer obtained his PhD in Physics from Technical University of Munich in 1996. Subsequently, he worked as a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ. After returning to TUM in 1998, he received his Habilitation degree in Experimental Physics in 2000. From 2001 to 2002, he held a non-tenured position as an Associate Professor at LMU Munich. In 2003, Leitenstorfer was appointed Full Professor of Experimental Physics at University of Konstanz where he also heads the Center for Applied Photonics since 2004. He received the Rudolf Kaiser and Arnold Sommerfeld Prizes in 2000, the Ludwig Genzel Prize in 2010, the Kenneth J Button Prize in 2020 and the DPG Technology Transfer Award in 2023. In 2011, Alfred Leitenstorfer was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant and since 2013, he is a Fellow of the Optical Society (now Optica). His research interests comprise femtosecond technology and optical phase control, ultrafast phenomena in condensed matter as well as fundamental quantum physics at elementary scales of time and space.
Dr. Doris Reiter
TU Dortmund
Doris Reiter focusses on the theory of solid-state nanostructures for quantum technologies. She obtained her PhD in 2010 in Münster. As a DAAD P.R.I.M.E. scholar, she worked at Imperial College London in 2014/2015 on nano-plasmonics and light-matter interaction. From 2016 to 2022 she held a Junior-Professorship on Ultrafast Optics in Nanostructured Solids in Münster. In April 2022 she moved to the Condensed Matter Theory at TU Dortmund. Doris Reiter is an active member of the German Physical Society. Her theoretical work shapes the understanding and application of quantum technologies in nanostructured systems.
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