This page is a list of all approved PIERS keynote speakers since 2021. It is only for the convenience of PIERS session organizers. All keynote speakers on this list can be invited directly without re-approval by the PIERS Quality Control Committee.
List of Approved Keynote Speakers
Prof. Qammer H. Abbasi University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Dr. Igor Aharonovich University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Prof. Hatice Altug Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Andrea Alù The City University of New York, USA
Prof. David L. Andrews University of East Anglia, UK
Prof. Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Dmitri N. Basov Columbia University, USA
Prof. Dieter H. Bimberg ``Bimberg Chinese-German Center for Green Photonics'' CIOMP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Martin J. Booth University of Oxford, UK
Prof. John E. Bowers University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Dr. Robert W. Boyd University of Rochester, USA
Prof. Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Prof. Christophe Caloz Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Dr. Adriano Camps Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Prof. Federico Capasso Harvard University, USA
Prof. Jose Capmany Francoy Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Prof. Che Ting Chan The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Jun Chen University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Prof. Ji-Xin Cheng Boston University, USA
Prof. Weng Cho Chew Purdue University, USA
Prof. Demetrios Christodoulides University of Southern California, USA
Dr. Davide Comite Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Prof. Tie Jun Cui Southeast University, China
Prof. F. Javier García de Abajo ICFO --- Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain
For contributions to:
the Science of Light, Free Electrons, and Their Interaction with Atoms and Nanostructures
Dr. Paolo De Natale CNR-INO, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy
Prof. Steven P. Denbaars University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Prof. Kishan Dholakia University of St Andrews, UK
Prof. Jeff Dozier University of California, USA
Prof. Benjamin J. Eggleton University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Dara Entekhabi Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Shanhui Fan Stanford University, USA
Prof. Nicholas Xuanlai Fang The University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. Andrew Forbes University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Prof. Eby G. Friedman University of Rochester, USA
Prof. Alexander L. Gaeta Columbia University, USA
Prof. Weibo Gao Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Patrice Genevet CNRS, CRHEA, Universite Cote d'Azur, France
Prof. Goëry Genty Tampere University, Finland
Prof. Harald W. Giessen University of Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Gérard Gouesbet University of Rouen, France
Prof. Alexander O. Govorov Ohio University, United States
Prof. Philippe Grangier CNRS/Universite Paris-Sud, France
Prof. Min Gu Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia
Dr. Teruhiko Hagiwara 9415 Bassoon Drive, USA
Prof. Naomi J. Halas Rice University, USA
Dr. Bert Hecht University of Wurzburg, Germany
Prof. Ortwin Hess Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Sven Hofling Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
Prof. Jinsong Huang University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Prof. Colin J. Humphreys Queen Mary University of London, UK
Dr. Atac Imamoglu Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Antonio Iodice University of Naples ``Federico II'', Italy
Prof. Tommaso Isernia Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Dr. Zubin Jacob Purdue University, USA
Prof. Mona Jarrahi University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Prof. Steven G. Johnson Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Jacob B. Khurgin Johns Hopkins University, USA
Prof. Tobias J. Kippenberg Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Prof. Yuri S. Kivshar Australian National University, Australia
For contributions to:
Nonlinear Optics and Meta-optics
Prof. Rafal Klajn Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Dr. Mathieu Kociak Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France
Prof. Frank H. L. Koppens ICFO --- The Institute of Photonics Sciences (Barcelona), Spain
Prof. Maksym Kovalenko ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Thomas F. Krauss University of York, UK
Dr. Arseniy I. Kuznetsov Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Dr. Riccardo Lanari Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente, IREA, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Prof. Guglielmo Lanzani Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Prof. Tae-Woo Lee Seoul National University, Korea
Dr. Juerg Leuthold Institute of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Erping Li Zhejiang University, China
Prof. Gang Li Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Dr. Ruxin Li Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Jun Lin Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, China
Prof. Xing Yi Ling Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Michal Lipson Cornell University, USA
Prof. Laura Na Liu University of Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Qing Huo Liu Eastern Institute of Technology, China
Dr. Shenggang Liu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. Wenqing Liu Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Prof. Marko Loncar Harvard University, USA
Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin Harvard University, USA
Prof. Stefan Alexander Maier Imperial College London, UK
Prof. Luis Martin-Moreno Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Prof. Andrea Massa University of Trento, Italy
Dr. Eric Mazur Harvard University, USA
Prof. Roberto Merlin University of Michigan, USA
Prof. Zetian Mi University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Andrey E. Miroshnichenko Australian National University, Australia
Prof. Hiroaki Misawa Hokkaido University, Japan
Prof. Mahta Moghaddam University of Southern California, USA
Prof. Laurent Mosse Schlumberger-Doll Research, USA
Prof. Ki Tae Nam Seoul National University, South Korea
Dr. Dragomir N. Neshev Australian National University, Australia
Prof. Peter Nordlander Rice University, USA
Dr. Franco Nori RIKEN and University of Michigan, Japan
Prof. Osvaldo N. Oliveira, Jr. University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof. Aydogan Ozcan University of California of Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Jian-Wei Pan University of Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. John B. Pendry Imperial College London, UK
Prof. Ru-Wen Peng Nanjing University, China
Prof. Thomas Pertsch Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Germany
Dr. Albert Polman University of Amsterdam & AMOLF, Netherlands
Dr. Paul R. Prucnal Princeton University, USA
Prof. Demetri Psaltis Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu National University of Singapore, Singapore
For contributions to:
Engineering physics, transformation nanophotonics and wave-matter interactions
Prof. Romain Quidant The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain
Prof. Dr. Romain Quidant ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Timothy C. Ralph University of Queensland, Australia
Dr. Theo Rasing Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Professor Manijeh Razeghi Northeastern University, USA
Prof. Pramod Reddy University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Zhiyong Jason Ren Princeton University, USA
Prof. Junsuk Rho Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
Prof. Stefan Rotter Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria
Prof. Philip St. John Russell Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Dr. Ifor D. W. Samuel University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Prof. Lars Samuelson Southern University of Science and Applications, Shenzhen and Lund University, China/Sweden
Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Prof. Oliver G. Schmidt Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Dr. Mordechai (Moti) Segev Technion --- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Prof. Vladimir M. Shalaev Purdue University, USA
Dr. Perry Ping Shum Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Alan Sibbbit The Petrophysicist Limited, USA
Prof. Daniel F. Sievenpiper University of California at San Diego, USA
Prof. Ole Sigmund Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Prof. Mário G. Silveirinha University of Lisbon, Portugal
Prof. Ivan I. Smalyukh University of Colorado, USA
Prof. Marin Soljačić Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. James S. Speck University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Dr. Kartik Srinivasan National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Dr. Isabelle Staude Australian National University, Australia
Prof. Tze Chien Sum Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof. Sune Svanberg Lund University, Sweden
Dr. Dmitri V. Talapin University of Chicago, USA
Dr. Hong X. Tang Yale University, USA
Prof. Zhong-Qun Tian Xiamen University, China
Prof. Carlos Torres-Verdin The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Prof. Sergei A. Tretyakov Aalto University, Finland
Prof. Din Ping Tsai City University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. M. Selim Unlu Boston University, USA
Dr. Kerry J. Vahala California Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Jelena Vuckovic Stanford University, USA
Prof. Jorg Wrachtrup University of Stuttgart, Germany
Prof. Junqiao Wu University of California, USA
Prof. Ming C. Wu University of California, USA
Prof. Fengnian Xia Yale University, USA
Dr. Yun-Feng Xiao Peking University, China
Professor Qihua Xiong Tsinghua University, China
Prof. Hongxing Xu Wuhan University, China
Prof. Jianbin Xu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Professor Eli Yablonovitch University of California, USA
Prof. Jianping Yao University of Ottawa, Canada
Prof. Xiaobo Yin The University of Hong Kong, China
Dr. Guihua Yu Texas Materials Institute, UT Energy Institute, USA
Dr. Simon H. Yueh California Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Anatoly V. Zayats King's College London, UK
Prof. Chunfeng Zhang Nanjing University, China
Prof. Fan Zhang Fudan University, China
Prof. Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. Jie Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Prof. Qi-Jun Zhang Carleton University, Canada
Prof. Xiang Zhang University of Hong Kong, China
Prof. Nikolay I. Zheludev University of Southampton & Nanyang Technological University, UK
Prof. Lei Zhou Fudan University, China
Prof. Jia Zhu Nanjing University, China
Prof. Shi-Ning Zhu Nanjing University, China