| Prof. Vijayakumar Anand CIPHR ERA Chair & Associate Professor of Computational Imaging |
He received his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India in 2015. He was a PBC outstanding postdoctoral fellow at Ben Gurion University, Israel from 2015-2018. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise Fellow (Nanophotonics Fellow) at Swinburne University, Australia. He has published more than 100 journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. He is also an author of a bestselling textbook on Design and Fabrication of Diffractive Optical Elements with MATLAB, published by SPIE press. He has been elected to the editorial board of Nature Springer Applied Physics B: Laser and Optics and Chinese Optics Letters. His current research interests include computational optics, imaging, digital holography, diffractive optics, and microfabrication.
| Dr. Andi Hektor Senior Researcher in astro-particle physics at National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Chair of the Board at GScan OÜ |
He has worked at the Tartu, Uppsala, Helsinki and Cambridge University and CERN, Switzerland, and is an active science and tech communicator. His main activity is to research, develop and commercialise atmospheric ray tomography for security, industry and medical applications.In the summer school, he will tell us about GScan (https://gscan.eu/), a startup company on cosmic ray tomography.
| Dr. Elmo Tempel Professor of Astronomy, member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences | |
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He is a member of the 4MOST consortium (https://www.4most.eu/), which operates the next-generation fibre-fed spectroscopic telescope that will provide the most complete and accurate coverage of the southern sky in the coming years. In the summer school, we will hear about the capabilities of the new telescope and the consortium’s science goals. | |
| Dr. Mihkel Pajusalu Director of Science and Technology, Crystalspace OÜ Head of the Space Technology Department and Associate Professor in Space Technology, Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu |
He received his PhD from University of Tartu in physics in 2014 and worked from 2015-2019 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA as a postdoctoral associate on space mission development and astrobiology. Then he returned to Estonia and took over the leadership of the Space Technology department at Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu in 2020 and joined Crystalspace in 2021. He is mainly interested in development of space exploration and astrobiology and all technologies needed for it including sensing technologies (cameras, light sources at Crystalspace), robotics, machine learning, and large scale industrial automation. He is also active in science popularization and is leading the jury of the Estonian Junior Science Olympiad and is the country coordinator for European Olympiad of Experimental Sciences (EOES) and International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO).
Talk title: Optical Sensing Solutions for Earth, Space and Other Worlds
Talk title: Optical Sensing Solutions for Earth, Space and Other Worlds
| Jaan Viru CTO & Co-founder, Crystalspace OÜ CPO & Co-founder, Biig Technologies Inc. Member of the Council in Estonian Defence Industry Association | |
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He is an Estonian entrepreneur & developer focusing on the Space, IoT, and Automotive sectors. | |
| Taavi Pungas Head of Data at Starship Technologies, FÜS alumni |
| Dr. Andreas Valdmann Co-founder and System Architect at LightCode Photonics, FÜS alumni | |
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He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tartu, Estonia in 2019. After which he together with people from Physical Optics Laboratory in University of Tartu started LighCode Photonics which is a science-intensive deep tech company developing breakthrough technology for mobility. They are rethinking image acquisition and solving 3D imaging in a completely new way - via intelligent perception. LightCode Photonics is transforming 3D imaging from human-like perception to robotic vision - we are building the world's first Software-Defined 3D Camera (SD3D Camera). Their approach enables them to empower the existing sensors with software-defined capability and provide Lidar performance using accessible COTS components at an affordable cost. | |
| Dr. Praveen. P. A Post Doc Fellow in CIPHR team |
He received his Ph.D. degree from the Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli, India in 2019.From 2019 to 2022, he was a Postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati. He has published around 15 journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. He was a guest editor of SPIE optical engineering journal. His areas of expertise include Hybrid organic semiconductors, Optoelectronic Devices and Computational materials science.
| Laurits Puust MSc in material science, Optics researcher at Click and Grow/Program manager of the master's program in physics |
Click & Grow is a leading company in creating home and indoor gardening solutions. His job is to develop lighting solutions for products: create a test methodology for potential LEDs used in products, explore ways to reduce light pollution with innovative optical details, which in turn would increase lamp efficiency, and test the effects of different spectral wavelengths on plant growth. In the summer school he will talk about efficient lighting solutions for plant growing equipment.
| Dr. Amuthavel. J Senior Researcher CIPHR team |
| Siim Pikker Micro- and nanooptics associate professor at University of Tartu |
Molecular strong coupling is a versatile method for controlling the energetic behavior of
light-matter interactions. For example, it is a promising method for designing new type of laser like light sources through the process of non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), to control and to direct photo-chemical reactions and to manipulate the molecular energy transfer processes beyond the distance set by the Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) etc. Although many application ideas exist, further understanding is needed for designing of such new and potentially useful systems.
Here I give a brief introduction on the application specific geometries for achieving strong coupling with molecular excitations and confined optical fields. I will also discuss our current activities and experimental and numerical simulation capabilities in the field at the Institute of Physics at the University of Tartu. The scientific focus of my research is the understanding of the role of the Stokes shift in the energy transfer processes and efficiency in polaritonic luminescence and light sources.
light-matter interactions. For example, it is a promising method for designing new type of laser like light sources through the process of non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), to control and to direct photo-chemical reactions and to manipulate the molecular energy transfer processes beyond the distance set by the Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) etc. Although many application ideas exist, further understanding is needed for designing of such new and potentially useful systems.
Here I give a brief introduction on the application specific geometries for achieving strong coupling with molecular excitations and confined optical fields. I will also discuss our current activities and experimental and numerical simulation capabilities in the field at the Institute of Physics at the University of Tartu. The scientific focus of my research is the understanding of the role of the Stokes shift in the energy transfer processes and efficiency in polaritonic luminescence and light sources.
| Dr. Jussi Toppari Associate Professor at University of Jyvässkylä |
Strong coupling between photoactive organic molecules and confined light, like surface plasmon polaritons or cavity photons, manifests itself by Rabi splitting at the matching energy of the molecular absorption and the light mode. This split is due to formation of new hybrid polariton states between the light mode and the molecular excitation. These states affect the energy landscape of the molecules and can thus alter their chemical behavior as shown by recent experiments. This yields high hopes for using strong coupling for controlling chemical reactions and especially for catalyzing them. However, the so called dark states, i.e., superpositions of bare molecular excitations, as well as the excited state dynamics of the involved molecule, like Stokes shift, can have a big influence on the polariton dynamics. This is a highly important question as it influences which kind of chemical control is viable by polaritons.
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Roman Tarask Regional Sales Manager at Lumibird |
Lumibird (https://www.lumibird.com/en/) is one of the world’s leading specialist in lasers. With 50 years of experience and expertise in 3 key technologies – solid-state lasers, laser diodes and fiber lasers – the group designs, manufactures and markets high performance lasers for the scientific (laboratories and universities), industrial (manufacturing, defence, LiDAR sensors), and medical (ophthalmology). In the summer school Roman will give an overview about the company and portfolio.
| Tuule Mall Parts Tallinn University of Technology |
| Joonas Ariva STACC and University of Tartu |
He studied physics in the first year when FKM (Physics-chemistry-material science) bachelor programme started, focusing mainly on optics and photonics. After three long years of studying, he felt that physics was a good stepping stone and plunged further into the magical world of data and artificial intelligence.
| Sandhra-Mirella Valdma Cybernetica AS, University of Tartu, CIPHR team, FÜS alumni |
