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12 - 16 April 2026
Strasbourg, France

SPIE Photonics Europe Programme

This meeting will feature an impressive gathering of technical content and presenters

Building a great programme

Every other year this important community comes together to share and discuss current research, hear the latest breakthroughs, and connect with colleagues.

We look forward to seeing you in 2026 and hope you will consider attending.

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The programme is available in January.

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Best Student Papers and Best Paper Sponsorship Award winners
We are happy to recognize the following recipients and appreciate their contributions.
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An Art-Science Photonics Exhibition

Extraordinary Light Expo artwork Each time we gather at this event we are offered a new way to see and experience light. This year we explore the different aspects of light polarization: a collaboration between artists, scientists, and universities. Download the PDF for details — and enjoy the show!

An invitation to attend


The Photonics Europe event continues to provide an interdisciplinary forum where researchers and engineers from academia and industry can meet to help bring the frontiers of science into practice. The symposium represents an excellent opportunity to stay informed and further the debate the latest (and future) developments in optics and photonics technologies—from digital optics to quantum technologies to optical imaging, sensing, and metrology, as well as THz photonics, 3D printed optics, photonic glasses, photosensitive materials, and biophotonics. Read the full invitation from the chairs.

2026 Symposium Chairs


Paul Montgomery

Univ. of Strasbourg (France)

Anna Mignani

Istituto di Fisica Applicata "Nello Carrara" (Italy)

Thierry Georges

Oxxius (France)

2026 Technical Committee


 Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev (Israel)

 Hatice Altug, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

 Antonio Ambrosio, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

 David L. Andrews, Univ. of East Anglia (United Kingdom)

 Florent Baboux, Lab. Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (France)

 Roel G. Baets, Univ. Gent (Belgium)

 Angus J. Bain, Univ. College London (United Kingdom)

 Francis Berghmans, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)

 Nikhil Bhalla , Univ. of Ulster (United Kingdom)

 Tom Bienaimé , Univ. de Strasbourg (France)

 Walter C. P. M. Blondel  , Ctr. de recherche en automatique de Nancy (France)

 Thomas Bocklitz, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)

 Michael T. Canva, Univ. de Sherbrooke (Canada)

 Matthias F. Carlsohn , Computer Vision and Bildkommunikation at Bremen (Germany)

 Maria Rita Cicconi, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)

 Tomáš Čižmár, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany)

 François Courvoisier, FEMTO-ST (France)

 Virginia D'Auria , Institut de Physique de Nice (France)

 John M. Dudley , Institut Franche-Comte Electronique Mecanique Thermique et Optique               (France)

 Daniel S. Elson, Imperial College London (United Kingdom)

 Tommaso Fellin , Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy)

 Francesco Ferranti, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)

 Manuel Flury , ICube Lab., INSA Strasbourg (France)

 Andrea Fratalocchi, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia)

 Irene Georgakoudi, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth  (United States)

 Marc P. Georges, Liège Univ. (Belgium)

 Csilla Gergely, Lab. Charles Coulomb (France)

 Ambra Giannetti, Istituto di Fisica Applicata "Nello Carrara"-CNR (Italy)

 Sylvain Gioux, Lab. des sciences de l'Ingénieur, de l'Informatique et de l'Imagerie (France)

 Jan Christoph Goldschmidt, Philipps-Univ. Marburg (Germany)

 Felipe Guzman, Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona (United States)

 Stefan Haacke , Institut de physique et chimie des matériaux de Strasbourg (France)

 Alois M. Herkommer, Univ. Stuttgart (Germany)

 Henri Jaffrès, Lab. Albert Fert (France)

 Matthias L. Jäger, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V. (Germany)

 Mona Jarrahi, Univ. of California, Los Angeles (United States)

 Kyriacos Kalli, Cyprus Univ. of Technology (Cyprus)

 Alistair Kean, Univ. of the Highlands and Islands  (United Kingdom)

 Mehdi   Keshavarz Hedayati, Durham Univ. (United Kingdom)

 Thomas Kissinger, Technische Univ. Ilmenau (Germany)

 Tomasz Kozacki , Warsaw Univ. of Technology (Poland)

 Sylvain Lecler, ICube (France)

 Gian Domenico Licciardo, Univ. degli Studi di Salerno (Italy)

 Fan-Yi Lin, National Tsing Hua Univ. (Taiwan)

 Kevin F. MacDonald, Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)

 Wouter Maes, Univ. Hasselt (Belgium)

 Luana Mazzarella, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands)

 Robert R. McLeod, Univ. of Colorado Boulder (United States)

 Julien Moreau, Institut d'Optique Graduate School (France)

 Jesper Mørk, Technical Univ. of Denmark (Denmark)

 Peter O'Brien, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)

 Inmaculada Pascual Villalobos, Univ. de Alicante               (Spain)

 Anna C. Peacock, Univ. of Southampton  (United Kingdom)

 Pavel Peterka, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS (Czech Republic)

 Wilhelm Pfleging, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (Germany)

 Pascal Picart, LAUM CNRS, Le Mans Univ. (France)

 Brian W. Pogue , Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (United States)

 Jürgen  Popp, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V.  (Germany)

 Sascha Preu, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany)

 María Del Mar Sánchez-López , Univ. Miguel Hernández  (Spain)

 Peter Schelkens, Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium)

 Sebastian Schellhammer, TU Dresden (Germany)

 Viktor J. Schneider, Leibniz Univ. Hannover (Germany)

 Marc Sciamanna, CentraleSupélec (France)

 Alexander N. Sprafke , Martin-Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

 Isabelle Staude , Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)

 Birgit Stiller, Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts (Germany)

 Stefano Taccheo, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)

 Giovanna Tissoni, Institut de Physique de Nice (France)

 Yasuo Tomita, Univ. of Electro-Communications (Japan)

 Valery V. Tuchin, Saratov State Univ. (Russian Federation)

 Dmitry Turchinovich, Univ. Bielefeld (Germany)

 Koen Vandewal , Univ. Hasselt (Belgium)

 Nicolas Verrier, IRIMAS-Univ. de Haute-Alsace (France)

 Laurent Vivien, Ctr. de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (France)

 Georg   von Freymann, Technische Univ. Kaiserslautern (Germany)

 Jean-Eric Wegrowe, École Polytechnique (France)

 Stephanos Yerolatsitis, Cyprus Univ. of Technology (Cyprus)

 Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan Univ. (Israel)

 Hans Zappe, Univ. of Freiburg (Germany)

 Anatoly V. Zayats, King's College London (United Kingdom)

 Ioanna Zergioti, National Technical Univ. of Athens (Greece)

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