Tomasz R. Wolinski
Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
SPIE Fellow

Tomasz R. Woliński received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1985 and D.Sc. in Physics Optics in 1995. He has been Professor of Physics since 2002 and Head of Photonics Technologies Priority Research Area at Warsaw University of Technology since 2020. He has co-authored over 380 journal and conference papers (h=26), 7 patents (USA, Canada, Poland), 7 review chapters (Progress in Optics, Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering, Wiley, Springer, Woodhead Publishing); Fellow of SPIE (2004), Senior Member of Optica (2022), member of the Int. Union of Pure and Applied Physics: Laser Physics and Photonics (2025); Photonics Society of Poland President since its inception in 2008 and Photonics Letters of Poland publisher since 2009; Laureate of the Foundation for Polish Science MASTER Program in the area of Photonic Liquid Crystals Fibers (2009). His current research interests include THz liquid crystals photonics, photonic (liquid crystals) fibers and nanostructures, polarization phenomena in optical fibers, fiber based optofluidics, and optical fiber sensors and systems.

Philip Russell
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
OSA Fellow

Philip Russell is Director at the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany and holds the Krupp Chair in Experimental Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He obtained his M.A. (1976) and D.Phil. (1979) degrees at the University of Oxford and subsequently worked in research laboratories and universities in France, Germany and the USA. His research interests range from the behaviour of light in periodically structured materials to nonlinear optics, waveguides, optical fibres and their applications. He has over 600 publications and is co-inventor on 37 disclosures or patents covering many aspects of photonics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Optical Society of America (OSA) and has won several international awards for his research including the 2005 Körber Prize for European Science, the 2005 Thomas Young Prize of the Institute for Physics (UK) and the 2000 OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize. He was a Director-At-Large of the Optical Society of America 2007-2009 and from 2005 to 2006 he was an IEEE-LEOS Distinguished Lecturer and the recipient of a Royal Society/Wolfson Research Merit Award.

Hongbo Sun
Tsinghua University, China

Hong-Bo Sun, received the B.S. and the Ph.D degrees in electronics from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Satellite Venture Business Laboratory, the University of Tokushima, Japan, from 1996 to 2000, and then as an assistant professor in Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Japan. In 2004, he was promoted as a full professor (Changjiang Scholar) in Jilin University, China αnd since 2017 he has been working in Tsinghua University, China. His research interests have been focused on ultrafast optoelectronics, particularly on laser nanofabrication and ultrafast spectroscopy: Fabrication of various micro-optical, microelectronical, micromechanical, micro-optoelectronic, microfluidic components and their integrated systems at nanoscale, and exploring ultrafast dynamics of photons, electrons, phonons, and surface plasmons in solar cells, organic light-emitting devices and low-dimensional quantum systems at femtosecond timescale. So far, he has published over 300 scientific papers in the above fields, which have been cited for more than 10000 times according to ISI search report. He is currently the editor of Optics Letters (OSA), Light: Science and Applications (Nature Publishing Group), Chinese Science Bulletin (Springer), and editorial advisory board member of Nanoscale (RSC) and Display and Imaging (Old City Publishing).