Previous Applied Physics Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title
April 11th	Emil Marklund, SciLifeLab fellow	Applied Physics Seminar: High-throughput Biophysics
March 7th	Prof. Joydeep Dutta, Light and Matter Physics	Functional Materials for FEW applications
February 1st	Prof. Linda Lundström, Bio-Opto-Nano Physics	Visual optics: focus on the periphery

Date	Speaker	Title
October 19th	Ass. Prof. Yasmine Sassa, Materials and Nanophysics	Quantum Materials for Future Technologies: from Superconductivity to Magnetic Vortices
September 21st	Vladislav Korenivski, Nanostructure Physics, Director of Albanova Nanolab	Topics in Nanomagnetism & Albanova Nanolab
May 25th	Jerker Widengren, Quantum and Biophotonics, KTH	Fluorescence-based ultrasensitive and ultrahigh resolution spectroscopy/microscopy for fundamental biomolecular studies and towards biomedical applications
April 20th	Anand Srinivasan, Photonics, KTH	“Sub-wavelength Photonic Semiconductor Nanostructures and their Applications”
March 23rd	Wei Ouyang, Biophysics, KTH	AICell Lab -- Building AI Systems for Human Cell Modeling and Simulation
February 23rd	Oscar Tjernberg, Materials and Nanophysics, KTH	Quantum materials

Date	Speaker	Title
November 10th	Johan Strömqvist, VD/grundare av Single Technologies AB	Adding a new dimension to DNA sequencing
October 24th	Professor Taeghwan Hyeon Director, Center for Nanoparticle Research, IBS, Korea	Designed Synthesis and Assembly of Inorganic Nanomaterials for Energy and Soft-Electronics Applications
October 14th	Prof. Charles Cornet, INSA Rennes, CNRS, Institut FOTON, Rennes, France	Recent research developments at Institut FOTON: III-V/Si heterogeneous growth, physical properties and applications for solar water splitting
October 6th	Docent Hans Blom, Biophysics, Applied Physics, KTH	ALM, the KTH infrastructure for advanced microscopy at SciLifeLab
October 3rd	Dr. Thomas C. Hansen, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France	Parametric diffraction with the high intensity neutron powder diffractometer D20 at ILL Grenoble, focussing on « energy » materials
September 29th	Prof. Peter Schall, Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam	Colloidal design: from colloidal molecules to material applications
September 15th	Prof. Sergey Dobretsov, Centre of Excellence in Marine Biotechnology, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman	Chitosan-based coatings for biofouling prevention
September 8th	Prof. Pär Olsson, Kärnenergiteknik, KTH	SUNRISE and Solstice: towards a sustainable nuclear energy future in Sweden
June 2nd	Professor Darko Zibar, Dept. of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark	Optimum phase measurement in the presence of noise
May 5th	Prof. Diego Cazorla-Amorós, University of Alicante, Spain	Porous carbons: designed porosity for sustainable engineering applications
March 10th	Michael Fokine, Associate Professor Laser Physics, Applied Physics, KTH, & co-founder of Nobula3D	Additive Manufacturing of Glass - Challenges and Opportunities
February 24th	Ozan Öktem, Department of Mathematics, KTH SCI	Image reconstruction in tomography with incomplete data using microlocal aware deep learning
February 10th	Nicole Pamme, Prof in Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University	Applied Physics at the micrometer scale – harnessing magnetic attraction and repulsion forces in lab-on-a-chip
January 27th	Jonas Sellberg, Associate Professor, Biomedical & X-ray Physics, Dept. of Applied Physics, KTH	The conceptual design of a soft x-ray laser at MAX IV

Date	Speaker	Title
December 9th	Alexander Dahlström, Hultgren Laboratory, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, ITM School	Introduction to atom probe tomography: opportunities and performance of the new EIKOS instrument
November 25th	Dr. Ivan Madan, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	Longitudinal and transverse modulation of electron wave function with light, and its application to electron microscopy
November 11th	Prof. Igor Pikovski, Stockholm University	Opto-mechanical tests of Planck-scale physics
October 28th	Erik Lindahl, Professor of Biophysics, Dept. Biochemistry & Biophysics, Stockholm University	Under the hood of Covid-19: The virus, proteins, vaccines, new mutations and possible antiviral drugs
October 14th	Haichun Liu, researcher, Experimental Biomolecular Physics, Applied Physics Department, KTH	Lanthanide photon upconversion nanophotonics
September 30th	Ass. Prof. Erdinc Sezgin, SciLifeLab, Dept of Womens and Children’s Health, KI	Biophysical mapping of health and disease
June 10th	Per Augustsson, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, LTH	Dynamics of fluids and cells in acoustic fields
May 27th	Prof. Romain Quidant, ETH, Zurich, Schweiz	An enabling tool for basic research and technology
April 29th	Dr. Rasmus Palm, Guest Researcher Tartu University	Porosity and Structure of Carbon Materials: Control and Use for H2 Storage
April 15th	Professor Johan Åkerman, Department of Physics, Gothenburg University	30 years of spintronics - from the GMR discovery to neuromorphic computing
March 29th	Dr Ali Elshaari, Quantum Nano Photonics Group, Applied Physics KTH	Hybrid Quantum Photonics
March 18th	Assistant Professor Simone Gasparinetti, Chalmers, Sweden	Primary thermometry of propagating microwaves in the quantum regime

Date	Speaker	Title
March 12th	Assistant Professor Simone Gasparinetti, Chalmers, Sweden	Elucidating cell membrane structure using super-resolution spectroscopy
February 13th	Prof. Sophia Hober, School of Biotechnology, AlbaNova University Center, KTH	The building blocks of life – the proteins
January 30th	Prof. Anders Mikkelsen, Department of Physics & NanoLund, Lund University, Sweden	Ultrafast electron dynamics: From fundamentals of photoexcitation to lightwave-driven electronics

Date	Speaker	Title
December 5th	Ali W. Elshaari, Quantum Nano Photonics Group, Applied Physics KTH	Hybrid Quantum Integrated Photonics
November 7th	MD, PhD Kerstin Hellgren, Assoc. Prof. and Head of the eye clinic at Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hosp	Clinical evaluation of the developing visual system
October 24th	Prof. Yen-Chieh Huang, Institute of Photonics Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	Dielectric laser accelerator – a vision toward chip-size accelerator and x-ray laser pointer
October 10th	Assistant Prof. Witlef Wieczorek, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers	Chip-based superconducting levitation of micrometer-sized particles for macroscopic quantum experiments
September 26th	Anton Köck, Microelectronics Department, Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH, Austria	Heterogeneous Integration of Nanomaterials - Towards CMOS Based Multi-Gas Sensing Nanodevices
September 12th	Assist. Prof. Sara Abrahamsson, University of California Santa Cruz, USA	Diffractive Optics and 3D Super-Resolution Microscopy
August 29th	Professor Muhammet Toprak, KTH, Applied Physics, BioX	Nanochemistry at Applied Physics
June 13th	Dr. Paulina Kuo, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA	Entangled Photons for Quantum Information Applications
April 25th	Dr Eilon Sherman,Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel	Resolving mechanisms of protein dynamics and organization at the cell membrane in single molecule detail
March 28th	TJ Lane, SLAC National Accelerator Lab, USA	What can we learn from x-ray diffuse scatter from protein crystals?
March 14th	Chris Phillips, ETHZ Zurich	High-brightness ultrafast laser sources enabled by quadratic nonlinear devices
January 31st	Assoc. Prof. Martin Månsson, Materials- and Nano Physics, Applied Physics, KTH	Structure & Dynamics in Energy Materials using Muons & Neutrons

Date	Speaker	Title
December 18th	Dr. Jake Fontana, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. USA	Bridging Plasmonic Properties to Materials
November 22nd	Anindya Gupta,Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University	AI and Deep learning in Biomedical Image analysis
October 25th	Dr. Ingmar Hartl, Head of Laser Science and Technology, Deutsches Electron-Synchrotron(DESY),Hamburg	Ultrafast laser development driven by accelerator and X-ray Free Electron Laser research
October 11th	Christos Flytzanis, Physic Department, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris	Fashioning and Pumping up the Sound. Strong Coherent THz Acoustic Phonon Amplification in Semiconductor Superlattices and the issue of SASER operation
October 11th	Professor Joachim Oberhammer, Department of Micro and Nanosystems, KTH	THz MEMS - micromachining enabling the large-scale exploitation of the millimeter and submillimeter-wave frequency spectrum
September 27th	Professor Jan-Åke Larsson, Linköpings University	Non-locality, Bell tests, and their applications
August 30th	Björn Hessmo - Principal Engineer, Applied Physics, KTH	Forensic Science - Applied science for the legal system
June 7th	Professor Christian Pedersen, DTU Technical University of Denmark	Room temperature upconversion imaging and detection in the mid-infrared with single photon detection capability
May 24th	Dr. Philippe Leclere Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Belgium	Towards (Supra) Molecular Organic Electronic Devices: the Key Role of Scanning Probe Microscopies
April 26th	Professor Erik Lindahl, Applied Physics, KTH	Computational Reconstruction in Cryo-Electron Microscopy
April 12th	Professor Patrik Henelius, Department of Physics, KTH	Magnetic Frustration
March 29th	Assistant Professor Eleni Diamanti, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, CNRS, Sorbonne University	Practical challenges in quantum cryptography
March 15th	Professor Michel Versluis, Physics of Fluids group, University of Twente	Bubbles and droplets for nanotechnology and nanomedicine
March 1st	David Paterson - Visiting Scientist - MAX IV. Principal Scientist - XFM Australian Synchron	Megapixels per minute: fast efficient X-ray fluorescence microscopy at the Australian Synchrotron
February 15th	Prof. Claudio Conti - Director of the CNR Institute for Complex Systems - Rome (Italy)	Topological lasers
February 1st	Prof. Matthias F. Schneider, Medical and Biological Physics, TU – Dortmund, Germany	From Physics to Living Systems. Pulses, Fluctuations, Transitions and the Living State.

Date	Speaker	Title
November 9th	Assistant Professor Lucie Delemotte, SciLifeLab, KTH	On the Selective Promiscuity of Calmodulin: a computational study
October 26th	Prof. László Veisz, Department of Physics, Umeå University	Relativistic attosecond physics
October 12th	Ozan Öktem, Department of Mathematics KTH	Solving inverse problems using methods from deep learning: An application in tomography
September 28th	Olov Wahlsten - Chalmers	Development of novel bioanalytical assays with single-molecule readout for biomarker detection and drug candidate characterization.
September 14th	Professor Ulrich Vogt, Applied Physics, KTH	First x-ray nanoimaging experiments at NanoMAX
August 31st	Associate Professor Dr. Guilherme Xavier -Linköping University	Applications of next-generation telecom optical fibers in quantum information and in optical sensing
June 8th	Assistant Professor Natalie Wetzel, Interdisciplinary Sculpture at Kendall College of Art and Design & Mark Andrus, Photographer cinematographer and producer	Artists Natalie G’NAT Wetzel and Mark Andrus orbit again from The Moon, their transdisciplinary studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Foxy News, a tale about a giant fox and a determined ‘shooter’ who investigate causes of emotional derailing while riding trains through foreign lands. This strange bed fellow story spins from myth and fable within a landscape of global, political absurdity, using concepts within physics as the narrative structure. Non locality and entanglement become the mechanics that dictate the main characters' actions.
May 11th	Prof. Ulf Österberg, Department of Electronic Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway	THz technology - a reality?
April 27th	Prof. Giorgos Tsironis, Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, University of Crete	Quantum technology and the control of coherence in quantum networks
March 30th	Associate Professor Andreas Rydh, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Stockholm University	Nanocalorimetry: multimodal possibilities with thermodynamic characterization
March 16th	Assistant Professor Michal Liverts, Department of Mechanics, KTH	On the limiting temperatures of spherical shock wave implosion in gases
February 16th	Dr. Christos Grivas, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton	Optically pumped micro- and nanolasers
February 2nd	Prof. Hans Hertz, Department of Applied Physics, Biomedical & X-Ray Physics, KTH, Stockholm	Phase-contrast x-ray imaging with liquid-metal-jet sources

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 8	Prof. Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau Cedex, France	Thermotronics: toward circuits for the thermal light
Nov 24	Prof. Johan Hoffman, Computational Science and Technology, KTH	Mathematical models and computational science
Nov 10	PhD Hoon Jang, Department of Applied Physics, Laser Physics, KTH, Stockholm	On-chip light sources for Photonic Integrated Circuits
Oct 27	Dr. Johan Solandt, Pharmaceutical Technology & Development, AstraZeneca R&D Gothenburg	A Journey from Academia to Industry and Back Again…
Oct 13	Assoc. Prof. Markus Hennrich, Quantum Information & Quantum Optics, Fysikum, Stockholm University	Trapped Ion Quantum Technologies
Sept 29	Dr. Jesper Wallentin, Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund University	Applications of nanofocused hard X-rays
Sept 15	Assistant Professor Sofia Johansson, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm	Natural Killer cell receptor dynamics investigated with quantitative fluorescence-based techniques
Sept 1	Dr. Viktor Tsepelin, Department of Physics, Lancaster University, UK	Probing superfluid 3He and 4He using mechanical oscillators
June 28	Associate Professor Daniel Milanese, Materials Science and Technology POLITECNICO DI TORINO - DISAT	Glasses for photonics and specialty optical fibers
June 9	PhD. Tobias Huber, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck	Time-bin entangled photons from a quantum dot
May 26	Prof. Robert H. Hadfield, Division of Electronic & Nanoscale Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK	Infrared single-photon detection with superconducting nanowires
May 17	Prof. Roberta Ramponi, Department of Physics, Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnology (IFN-CNR) and Politecnico di Milano	Femtosecond laser micro and nanofabrication: an enabling tool for new technologies
May 12	Senior Lecturer Maria Tenje, Division of Microsystems Technology, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University	Microsystems for the life sciences
Apr 28	PhD. Jakob Wierzbowski, Walter Schottky Institut und Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Germany	Electrical control of optical processes in atomically thin semiconductors
Apr 14	Assistant Professor Jonas Sellberg, Department of Applied Physics, Biomedical and X-ray physics, KTH, Stockholm	X-ray free electron lasers and its applications
Mar 31	Prof. Vladislav Korenivski, Department of Applied Physics, Nanostructure Physics, KTH, Stockholm	Spins as quantum bits
Mar 17	Dr. Stefania Giacomello, Division of Gene Technology, Biotechnology, KTH	Spatial Transcriptomics and its applications: from mammals to plants
Mar 10	Assistant Professor Victor Torres Company, Photonics Laboratory, Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers, Göteborg	Chip-scale parametric frequency comb technology
Feb 18	Assistant Professor Alexey Amunts, Dept. Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University	Cryo-EM -- from niche method to new era in structural biology
Feb 4	Dr. Cheuk-Wai Tai, Department of Environmental and Materials Chemistry, Stockholm University	Local order and disorder investigated by transmission electron microscopy

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 17	Professor Gunnar Björk – Quantum Electronics and Optics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Time and its keeping
Dec 3	Assoc. Prof. Adnane Achour - Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute	Structural bases underlying Streptococcus pneumonia virulence
Nov 19	Prof. Peter Friberg - Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine / Clinical Physiology, Wallenberg Laboratory, The Sahlgrenska Academy and University Hospital, University of Gothenburg	Stress and Health – from youth to adult
Nov 05	Assoc. Prof. Michael Fokine - Laser Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Laser assisted restructuring and reshaping of optical fibers
Oct 22	Dr. Thomas Weissl - Nanostructure Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Metrology with Josephson and phase-slip junctions
Oct 8	Assoc. Prof. Lisa Prahl-Wittberg - Department of mechanics, KTH	Blood flow – critical fluid mechanics (Strömningsmekanik – på blodigt allvar)
Sept 24	Assoc. Prof. Anna Burvall - Biomedical and X-ray Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Methods for laboratory-based phase-contrast x-ray imaging – a comparison
Sept 10	Dr. Ralf Hoffmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	Contrast transfer in propagation based, single-distance X-ray phase-contrast imaging
June 4	Dr. Zhu Diao - Kondenserad materia och kvantoptik, Stockholm University	Nanomechanical torque magnetometry: a powerful and versatile test bed for nanomagnetism
May 28	Dr. Si Mohamad Sah - Nanostructure Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Fractional calculus and its application in science and engineering
May 21	Assoc. Prof. Michael Uhlin - Centre for allogeneic stem cell Transplantation (CAST) Karolinska University Hospital	Adoptive T cell therapies after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
May 7	Dr. Magnus Andersson, Beräkningsbiofysik, Teoretisk Fysik KTH & SciLifeLab	Visualizing structural rearrangements of membrane proteins
Apr 23	Prof. Ove Axner, Department of Physics, Umeå University	Noise-Immune Cavity-Enhanced Optical Heterodyne Molecular Spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS) - A Laser-based Spectroscopic Technique for Ultra-sensitive Detection of Gases
Apr 9	Dr. Andreas Schropp, DESY, Hamburg, Germany	Magnified X-Ray Phase-Contrast Imaging at XFELs
Apr 1	Prof. Ian Robinson, London Center for NanoTechnology, UK	Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging of Excitations in Metal Nanoparticles
Mar 26	Prof Franz Pfeiffer, TUM Technische Universität München, Germany	X-ray phase-contrast imaging for biomedical and material science applications
Mar 26	Dr. Alex Clark, The Centre for Cold Matter, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London	Organic dye molecule photon sources coupled to waveguides and cavities
Mar 18	Dr. Sofía Rodríguez, Nanoscribe GmbH, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany	3D printing for Micro and Nanolithography
Mar 12	Dr. Anna-Karin Gustavsson - Institutionen för Fysik, Göteborgs Universitet	Glycolytic oscillations in individual yeast cells
Feb 26	Prof. Arvind Raman - University of Purdue, USA	Advances in Multi-frequency methods for fat mapping of mechanical properties of live cells
Feb 12	Dr. Nicky Thilmann - Dept. Applied Physics, Laser physics, KTH	Ground and satellite based applications of mid-infrared optical parametric oscillators
Jan 29	Martin Bech - Medical Radiation Physics, Dep. of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University	MedMAX: Biomedical phase-contrast imaging at Max-IV

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 18	Dr. Fredrik Nikolajeff - Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala Universitet	Evanescent mid-IR spectroscopy, diamond waveguides and neuroscience - work in progress towards clinical studies
Dec 4	Dr. Dina Carbone - MAX IV Laboratory	Brilliant opportunities with X-ray Nanobeams
Nov 20	Dr. Nils Norlin - European Molecular Biology Laboratory	Light Sheet Microscopy: Current advances and future challenges
Nov 6	Prof. Miroslaw Karpierz - Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology	All optical beam steering in chiral nematic liquid crystals
Oct 23	Dr. Nicolas Fritz, Cell Physics, Dept Applied Physics, Science for Life Laboratory	Mobility of proteins and organelles is a key component in regulation of neuronal function
Oct 9	Prof. Yen-Chieh Huang - National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan	Future Light Source Driven by Dielectric Laser Accelerator
Sept 25	Dr. Stefano Bonetti - Dept. of Chemical Physics, Stockholms University	Magnetism at the nanoscale: from nano- to picosecond dynamics
Sept 11	Prof. Yen-Chieh Huang - National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan	Lithium Niobate – the Silicon of Laser Photonics
Aug 21	Dr. Joanna Zawacka-Pankau, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute	Targeting tumors by porphyrins and photodynamic therapy
Jun 5	Dr. Marcus Cebula - Institutet för miljömedicin, Karolinska Institutet	Simultaneous Characterization of the Redox Regulated Transcription Factors Nrf2, HIF and NFκB at Single-Cell Resolution
May 22	Dr. Gilberto Brambilla, Southampton University	Principal Research Fellow at the Optical Research Center of Southampton University
May 8	Dr. Ahmed Alrifaiy, Experimentell metodik och termodynamik - Luleå tekniska universitet	Lab on a chip for electrophysiological measurements with control of the oxygen content - optical manipulation and spectroscopic analysis of biological cells
Apr 24	Prof. Aldo Badano, FDA Washington	Seeing biomolecular interactions with x-ray vision
Mar 27	Dr. Annica Gad, Institutionen för mikrobiologi, tumör- och cellbiologi, Karolinska Institute	The Control of the Mechanical Properties of Human Cells
Mar 13	Prof. Jan Hoh, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Adventures in Biophysics: cell mechanics, microenvironments and information dynamics
Feb 27	Dr. Ida Johansson, Swedish Defense Agency (FOI)	Laser based stand-off detection of explosives
Feb 13	Prof. Martina Gerken, Institute of Electrical and Information Engineering, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel	Biosensing with photonic crystal slabs
Jan 30	Prof. Franz Pfeiffer, TUM	X-ray Phase-Contrast and Dark-Field Imaging for Pre-Clinical and Clinical Applications
Jan 9	Prof. Valery Zwiller, Delft University of Technology	Quantum Optics with Nano Devices

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 5	Assoc. Prof. Fredrik Nikolajeff, Ångström Laboratory Uppsala University	Marrying Photonics, Materials Science, Microsystem Technology and Life Science - a Perspective from 15 years of Research in Uppsala
Nov 21	Dr. Lars-Olof Pålsson, Department of Chemistry, Durham University	Towards microscopic sensing - Photoluminescence modulated by molecular interactions in bulk and microscopic systems
Nov 7	Jonas Weissenrieder, Material Physics, KTH Kista	Ultrafast Electron Microscopy - soon at KTH
Oct 24	Prof. Lars Thylen, Photonics and Microwave Engineering, KTH Kista	Integrated photonics: From macro- to nanophotonics. Status, challenges and opportunities for KTH
Oct 10	Prof. Toshio Ando, Kanasawa University, Japan	The Development of High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy
Sep 26	Matthias Reuss, CellPhysics Lab, Applied Physics, KTH	easySTED - can it get any simpler?
Sep 12	Dr. Ulrich Vogt, Applied Physics, KTH	NanoMAX – a hard x-ray nano-imaging beamline at MAX IV
June 5	Dr. Matthias F. Schneider, Boston University, Biological Physics Group	Predicting biological function from Interface physics - on the Integration of local Fluctuations, Transport and Enzymes by propagating solitary Pulses
Apr 25	Dr. Cord Arnold, LTH	Sources and diagnostics for attosecond science
Apr 22	Prof. Larry Thibos, School of Optometry, Indiana University, USA	Ocular Wavefront Tomography: Describing and correcting the eye's optical system over a wide field of view
Apr 18	Prof. Ralf Morgenstern, Biochemical Toxicology at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, KI	Enzymology of a membrane protein - Microsomal Glutathione Transferase
Apr 11	Dr. Wolfgang Tress, LiU	Device physics of organic solar cells
Feb 28	Per Jonsson, FOI	Bio-aerosol detection
Feb 14	Anders Fridberger, Inst. för klinisk vetenskap, intervention och teknik CLINTEC Karolinska Institutet	Mechanisms of near-threshold sound detection
Jan 11	Prof. Karsten König, Univ. Saarbrücken	Multiphoton/CARS tomography

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 10	Paul Selvin, Physics & Biophysics, Loomis Lab of Physics, University of Illinois	Single Molecule Fluorescence and Optical Trapping Applied to Molecular Motors: Two can do it better than one
Dec 6	Dr. John Lock, Dept. of Biosciences and Nutrition, Novum, Karolinska Institutet	Systems microscopy
Nov 29	Christoph Quitmann, MAX IV Laboratory, Lund	Making the invisible visible - Magnetization dynamics & Future possibilities at MAX IV
Nov 22	Erik Lindahl, Department of Theoretical Physics, KTH	Molecular mechanisms for dual alcohol modulation and gating of cys-loop receptors
Nov 8	Dr. Björn Önfelt, MTC, KI & APhys, KTH	Natural Killer Cell Cytotoxicity at the Single Cell Level
Oct 25	Christiano Matos, Grupo de Fotônica, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie	Post-processed and liquid-filled microstructured optical fibers: novel platforms for sensing, nonlinear optics and photonic device development
Oct 11	Prof. Luca Dal Negro, Boston University	Photonic-plasmonic coupled structures for on-chip nanophotonics applications
Sep 27	Dr. Katia Gallo, Department of Applied Physics, Quantum Electronics and Quantum Optics group, KTH	Ferroelectric optical chips
Sep 17	Prof. Christos Flytzanis, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris	Ultrafast high THz-field driven charge transport in photo-generated plasmas
Jun 7	Lena Märler, Stockholm University	Biophysical studies of protein - membrane interactions
May 24	Min Yan, ICT, KTH	Light interaction with microstructured and nanostructured materials
May 10	Martin Burger, University of Münster	Variationa Methods for Image Reconstruction from Photon Counts
April 26	Janne Lehtiö, SciLifeLab	Cancer proteomics to improve therapy
April 12	Ying Fu, Cellphysics, Applied Physics, KTH	Nano biophotonics-design of QDs as specific biosensors
Mar 29	Eeva-Liisa Karjalainen, Stockholm University	What vibrations tell about proteins - biological infrared spectroscopy
Mar 15	Dr. Astrid S. de Wijn, Stockholm University	From microscopic nonlinear dynamics to macroscopic friction: low-friction sliding of nanocrystals
Mar 1	Prof. Mats Larsson, SU	The science behind substance identification in doping controls
Feb 16	Prof. Mark Pearce, KTH	Floating at the edge of space - balloon-borne X-ray polarimetry
Feb 2	Prof. Ulrik Lund Andersen, Technical University of Denmark	Quantum optical experiments - from centimeter to nanometer technology

Date	Speaker	Title
Nov 24	Dr. Dale Martz, Biomedical & X-ray Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Development of High Power Laser Driven Soft X-Ray Plasma Sources for Applications
Nov 22	Dr Christian David, Paul Scherrer Institut	Diffractive optics for imaging and diagnostics on x-ray tubes, synchrotrons, and free-electron lasers
Nov 10	Dr Markus Schmidt, Max‐Planck Institute for the Science of Light	Fiber form nanophotonic devices: from plasmonics towards nonlinear optics
Oct 27	Dr. Ozan Öktem, Department of Mathematics, KTH	Sparse signal processing - Going beyond Nyquist
Oct 13	Prof Gunnar Björk,Quantum Electronics and Optics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Research activities at the Quantum Electronics and Quantum Optics group (QEO)
Sept 29	Prof Mikael Östling, KTH ICT	SiC power devices – present status, applications and future perspective
Sept 15	Dr. Val Zwiller, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft	Nano-optics with single photons
Jun 16	Prof. Fatih Ömer Ilday, Bilkent University, Turkey	Nonlinear engineering of ultrashort-pulse fiber lasers and applications for nanostructure self assembly
Jun 9	Prof. Per Delsing, Mikroteknologi och nanovetenskap, Kvantkomponentfysik, Chalmers	Towards the quantum regime with propagating acoustic waves: Local probing in a GHz echo chamber
Jun 7	Prof. Sergey Kulik, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University	Control Over Frequency- and Angular Spectrum of Biphoton Field And its Possible Application for Quantum Communications
May 30	Prof. Thorsten Wohland, National University of Singapore	Imaging Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy for the Investigation of Cell Membrane Organization
May 26	Prof. Sunney X. Xie, Department of Chemistry & Chemical biology, Harvard University, USA	Life at the Single Molecule Level
Apr 28	Assoc Prof. Martin Wiklund, Biomedical & X-ray Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Ultrasonic manipulation of single cells
Apr 14	Dr. Eli Gunnarson, Pediatrisk Cell- och Molekylärbiologi, Karolinska Insitutet	Water and Brain
Mar 31	Dr. Stefan Wennmalm, Experimental Biomolecular Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Simultaneous analysis of labeled and unlabeled protein molecules (or microspheres) with inverse-fluorescence orrelation spectroscopy
Mar 17	Prof. Robert Forcheimer, Institutionen för Systemteknik, Linköping Univeristy	Image processing - from a compression point-of-view
Mar 3	Dr. Hendrik Steigerwald, Bonn University	Structuring of ferroelectric domains in lithium niobate crystals by UV light
Feb 17	Prof. Ulf Österberg, Norges Teknisk- Naturvitenskapelige Universitet	High Power THz Generation
Jan 20	Prof. Mats Göthelid, Material och Nanofysik, ICT-skolan, KTH	Surfaces and interfaces in the dye sensitized solar cell

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 9	Prof. Sune Svanberg, Atomic Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University	The Laser - the first 50 years
Nov 11	Prof. Dimitrios Stamou, Bio-nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Group, Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen	Membrane curvature as an allosteric modulator of protein localization and function
Oct 28	Prof. Stefan Kröll, Department of Physics Division of Atomic Physics, Lund University	Control at the quantum level
Oct 14	Assistant Prof. Akira Endo, Department of Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology	Review of the present technology of the radiation source for Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
Sep 30	Prof Klaus Boller, Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics, University Twente	Laser Wakefield acceleration
Sep 16	Prof. Jan Hoh, John Hopkins School of Medicine	Spatial information and information dynamics in biological systems
Jun 10	Prof. Åsa Emmer, Applied Physical Chemistry, KTH	Novel concepts in microseparation/preconcentration and mass spectrometry
May 27	Assoc. Prof. Marcus Wilhelmsson, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers	Fluorescent Nucleic Acid Base Analogues – Development and Use in Biological Systems
Apr 29	Prof Johan Hofkens, Katolieke Univ Leuven, Belgien	Probing (bio)molecular dynamics with single molecule spectroscopy
Mar 18	Prof. Saulius Marcinkevicius, Optics and Photonis, KTH	Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy: Principle, Instrumentation and Examples
Mar 4	Dr. Pär Jelger, Syntell AB	High power fiber lasers – Applications and limitations
Feb 18	Prof. Anne L'Huillier, Department of Physics Division of Atomic Physics, Lund University	Attosecond Light Pulses and Attosecond Physics
Feb 3	Prof. Charles Nicholson, Department of Neuroscience & Physiology, School of Medicine, New York University	Diffusion in Brain Extra cellular Space Reveals Properties and Challenges
Jan 21	Prof. Antoine Delon, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Université Joseph Fourier	Single molecule microscopy and spectroscopy - optical developments and applications for biology

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 17	Prof. Ulf Leonhardt,The School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, UK	Geometry, light and a wee bit of magic
Dec 3	Prof. Martyn Hills, Electromechanical Systems within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southamptom, UK	Ultrasonic particle manipulation in layered microfluidic resonators
Nov 19	Prof. Catharina Davis, Institutt for Fysik, Norges Tekniske-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet	Delivery of nanomedicine in tumour tissue: Strategies to overcome the barriers
Nov 5	Prof. Michael Malkoch, Division of Coating Technology, KTH	Dendrimers and Other Dendritic Compounds
Oct 8	Dr. Patrice Bertet, Research Group in Quantum Electronics, CEA-Saclay, France	High-visibility single-shot readout for superconducting qubits in cavities
June 4	Assoc. Prof. Ulrich Vogt, Biomedical & X-Ray Physics, KTH	X-ray free electron lasers – the ultimate tool for x-ray imaging?
May 7	Docent Per Uhlen, Inst. Medicinsk Biokemi och Biofysik (MBB), Karolinska Institutet	Calcium imaging: feed back loops and oscillations
Apr 23	Prof. Jens Birch, Department of Physics, Linköping University	Nano-level materials science for improved multilayers and superlattices
Mar 26	Dr. Sergey Kubatkin, Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Quantum Device Physics Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology	Single-molecular transistors and switches
Mar 12	Prof. Jan Linnros, Laboratory of Material and Semiconductor Physics, KTH	Silicon quantum dots - do they exist?
Feb 26	Prof. Valdas Pasiskevicius, Laser Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Nanophotonics: promises and challenges
Feb 12	Prof. Mark Rutland, KTH Surface Chemistry and Institute for Surface Chemistry	Interactions with AFM: Superlubricity, Pulp Friction and Bad Hair days
Jan 29	Dr. Niklas Gador, Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University	Time-resolved photo electron spectroscopy of DNA base pairs and ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy of Photosynthesis complexes
Jan 15	Dr. Aman Russom, Cell Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Microfluidic tools for clinical diagnostics: moving sample processing from the lab to the patient's bedside

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 4	Dr. Emilie Flaberg, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, KI	Development of automated microscopy methods to assist the research, diagnosis and treatment of human malignancies
Nov 20	Prof. Carolyn Larabell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA	Visualizing the 3-D organization of biological cells with soft x-ray tomography
Nov 6	Gert Auer and Prof. Hans Wiksell, Institutionen för Molekylär medicin och Kirurgi, KI	Management of Breast Cancer
Oct 23	David Haviland, Nanostructure Physics, Department of Applied Physics KTH	Intermodulation Atomic Force Microscopy
Oct 9	Hans Ågren, Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, KTH	Multiphysics Modeling of Optical Properties
Sept 25	Prof. Hans Hebert, Strukturell Bioteknik, KTH	Electron Microscopy in Structural Biology
Sept 11	Prof. Lars-Erik Berg, Chemical Physics, KTH	Laser spectroscopy in nuclear physics at ISOLDE
May 8	Prof. Sharon Stone-Elander, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, KI	PET in-vivo molecular imaging
May 8	Dr. Tor Sandén, Exp. Biomolecular Physics, KTH	Monitoring kinetics of highly environment sensitive states of fluorescent molecules by modulated excitation and time-averaged fluorescent intensity recording
Apr 24	Prof. Joakim Andréasson, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Physical Chemistry, Chalmers	Photochromic Systems for Molecular Logic and Photo-Switching of Biological Processes
April 10	Dr. Mårten Stjernström, Analytical Chemistry & Laser Physics, KTH	Emerging techniques for biomolecular Analysis
Mar 27	Dr. Peter Århem, Dept. of Neurophysiology, KI	How the nerve cell excitability and firing properties depend on the density of ion channels in the cell membrane
Mar 13	Prof. Björgvin Hjörvarsson, Institutionen för fysik och astronomi, Materials Physics, Uppsala University	The Influence of Extension on Magnetsic Ordering
Feb 28	Dr. Adrian Iovan, Nanostructure Physics, KTH	Spin Diode
Feb 14	Dr. Elisabeth Sörgel, Physikalisches Inst., Bonn Universität	Investigation of ferroelectric domains with piezoresponse force microscopy
Jan 31	Dr. Bengt Fadeel, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), KI	Nanotoxicology: understanding the potential risks of engineered nanomaterials for human health
Jan 17	Dr. Jonas Hellström, Laser Physics, KTH	On diode-pumped Yb and Er-Yb solid-state lasers

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 6	Prof. Vladimir Krasnov, Stockholm University	Natural atomic superlattices
Nov 22	Prof. Mohamed Bourennane, Stockholm University	Entanglement
Nov 8	Prof. Hjalmar Brismar and Masato Yasui, Cell Physics, KTH	Joint KTH and Keio symposium on novel techniques in aquaporin research
Oct 25	M. Sc. Åsa Claesson, ACREO	Activities at ACREO Fiber Optic center
Oct 11	Assoc. Prof. Björn Önfelt, Cell Physics, KTH	Probing intercellular communication across immune synapses and membrane nanotubes
Sept 27	Prof. Stefan Ståhl, Department of Biotechnology, KTH	Affibody molecules for tumor imaging
Jun 7	Lars Thylén, Department of Microelectronics and Information, KTH	Plasmonics and nanophotonics
May 24	Dr. Fredrik Nikolajeff, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University	Some recent advances in micro-optics: from nanoimprinting to square meter foils
May 11	Prof. Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute, Göttingen	Far-field optical nanoscopy
Apr 26	Prof. Mats Danielsson, Medical Imaging, Department of Physics, KTH	Novel Methods in Medical X-ray Imaging
Apr 12	Dr. Andreas Sonesson, Cell Physics, KTH	Dynamics of Enzymes at Interfaces
Mar 29	Dr. Michael Fokine, Politecnico di Torino	The Ultimate Thermal Stability of Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings
Mar 15	Prof. Johan Åkerman, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH	Synchronization of serially connected Spin Torque Oscillators
Mar 1	Dr. Patrik Brynolfsson, Laser Physics, KTH	Accurate Life Time Measurements using Confocal Microscopy
Feb 15	Prof. Min Qiu, Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, KTH	Optical metamaterials for photonic integration
Feb 1	Dr. Anders Holmberg, Biomedical & X-Ray Physics , KTH	Nanofabrication of soft x-ray optics
Jan 25	Ass. Prof. Ulf Ekenberg, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH	Using relativity to improve electronic devices: Ways to enhance the Rashba effect

Date	Speaker	Title
Dec 6	Prof. Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute, Göttingen	Fluorescence nanoscopy: macromolecular scale resolution with visible focused light
Nov 23	Dr. Kai Hassler and Dr. Hans Blom, Biomolecular Physics, KTH	Single Molecule Detection and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy on Surfaces using Total Internal Reflection Microscopy
Nov 9	Dr. Carlota Canalias, Laser Physics, Department of Applied Physics, KTH	Ferroelectric domain engineering on the nanoscale
Oct 27	Sverker Norrby	Accomodative intraocular lenses
Oct 12	Assoc. Prof. Ulrich Vogt , Biomedical & X-ray Physics, KTH	Zone plates - the best focusing optics for x-ray radiation
Sept 28	Dr. Junji Hirohashi, Laser Physics KTH	Characterization of domain switching and optical damage properties in ferroelectrics
Jun 15	Dr. Mikael Tiihonen, Laser Physics, KTH	Tailored optical parametric devices: going from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared
Jun 1	Dr. Marina Zelenina, Cell Physics, KTH	Aquaporins: water channels in the lipid membranes
May 18	Prof. Vladislav Korenivski, Nanostructure Physics, KTH	Spin electronics
May 4	Dr. Devrim Pesen, Nanostructure Physics, KTH	Connecting Cellular and Molecular Mechanics
Apr 20	Assoc. Prof. Martin Wiklund, Biomedical and X-Ray Physics, KTH	Ultrasonic and electric tweezers for contactless particle manipulation in Microsystems
Apr 6	Dr. Magnus Brändén, Biological Physics, Chalmers Proton transfer at biological membranes monitored via fluorescence fluctuations	Proton transfer at biological membranes monitored via fluorescence fluctuations

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