Prof. Gilberto Brambilla

Gilberto Brambilla is a Professor in Photonics at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (University of Southampton, U.K.) and General Manager and Deputy Director of the Future Photonics Hub. He obtained his MSc (Material Engineering) with honours from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and his PhD degree in Optoelectronics from the ORC in 2002. In 2007 he was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Royal Society. He has been the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics until 2015. His research interests include: point fibre sensors; design and fabrication of rare earth doped scintillating fibres; material structuring using fs lasers; manufacture of UV fibre lasers; fabrication of devices based on optical fibre nanowires, fibre tapers and couplers; fabrication of delivery fibres and systems. He has published >300 papers in international scientific journals/conferences, authored 4 patents and gave more than 30 invited/keynote/plenary talks over the 5 continents.

Prof. José Luís Santos

José Luís Santos received his graduation in Physics from University of Porto, Portugal, and Ph.D. degree from the same University, benefiting from collaboration with the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is currently a Professor of Physics at the Physics and Astronomy Department of Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto, Portugal. Optical fiber sensing is the main area of his research, with focus on interferometric and wavelength encoded devices. He is author or co-author of more than 230 scientific articles and co-author of 5 patents. With Professor Faramarz Farahi of University of North Carolina was Editor of Handbook of Optical Sensors, CRC Press 2014

Prof. Hypolito José Kalinowski

Hypolito José Kalinowski received a B.Sc. in Physics from Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RIO), Brazil. He retired as Full Professor at the Federal University of Technology – Paraná after occupying permanent positions at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) and PUC-RIO. Prof. Kalinowski took a pos-doc stay at Centro Studi and Laboratori Telecommunicazione (CSELT), Italy, and he spent sabbatical terms at Universidade de Aveiro and Insituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal, as well as at ENEA-C.R. Frascati, Italy. He was also a Senior Fellow of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy from 2008 to 2013. Prof. Kalinowski received the “Attilio Giarola” Medal of Scientific Achievements from the Brazilian Society for Microwaves and Optoelectronics (SBMO). He is member of SBMO, SPIE and OSA. In 2015 Prof. Kalinowski chaired the organization of OFS-24 (Curitiba, Brazil).

Dr. Alexis Mendez

Alexis Mendez received a PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, USA in 1992. He is president of MCH Engineering LLC – a consulting firm specializing in optical fiber sensing technology. Dr. Mendez was the former Group Leader of the Fiber Optic Sensors Lab within ABB Corporate Research (USA) where he led R&D activities for the development of fiber sensors for use in industrial plant, oil & gas, and high voltage electric power applications. He has written 65 technical publications, taught multiple short courses on fiber sensing, holds 5 US patents and is recipient of an R&D100 award. Dr. Mendez is a member of the OFS International Steering Committee, a Fellow of SPIE and was past Chairman of the 2006 International Optical Fiber Sensors Conference (OFS-18), and past Technical Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications (WSOF-2). He is also member of the ISHMII (International Society for Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure) Committee, as well as VP of the IEEE Fiber Optic Sensors Standards Committee. He is co-editor of the “Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook”, and co-author of SPIE’s “Fiber Optical Sensors Book—Fundamentals & Applications, 4th Ed.”.

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