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2026 Symposium Chair
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)
2026 Symposium Co-chair
TNO Defence, Security and Safety(The Netherlands)
Chantal Andraud, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Nicolas Boehrer, TNO, The Netherlands
Henri Bouma, TNO Defence, Security and Safety, The Netherlands
Helge Bürsing, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung, Germany
Andrea Camposeo, Istituto Nanoscienze, Italy
Marc Eichhorn, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung IOSB, Germany
Veronica Fernandez, Instituto de Tecnologías Físicas y de la Información Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Spain
Duncan L. Hickman, Tektonex Ltd., United Kingdom
Maarten A. Hogervorst, TNO. The Netherlands
Leo Kampmeijer, TNO, The Netherlands
Hugo J. Kuijf, TNO. The Netherlands
Martin Laurenzis, Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis, France
Gareth D. Lewis, Royal Military Academy, Belgium
Beatrice Masini, TNO, The Netherlands
Wladislaw Michailow, Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Zorana Milosevic, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Luana Persano, Istituto Nanoscienze, Italy
Radhakrishna Prabhu, The Robert Gordon Univ., United Kingdom
Neil Salmon, MMW Sensors Ltd., United Kingdom
Sylvain Schwartz, ONERA, France
Giacomo Sorelli, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung IOSB, Germany
Karin Stein, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung, Germany
Ove Steinvall, FOI-Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
Federica Villa, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev. Israel
Roberto Zamboni, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, Italy