2026 iPSRS Industrial Workshop

Connecting our students with companies, research laboratories and our alumni

Programme overview

Monday, October 19
Tuesday, October 20
Wednesday, October 21
Thursday, October 22

Monday 19 October – Lab visit and career development

09:45–12:00 –Visit of Laboratoire Hubert curien
1- Nathalie Destouches
The nanosecond laser and its applications in the field of identity document security.
2- Arnaud Meyer/Arnaud Valour
Presentation of the fabrication and characterization techniques of the Nanosainté platform.
3- Elie Cormier
Exploitation of magneto-photonic metasurfaces to enhance the Transverse Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect
4- Nicolas Faure/Anthony Cazier
Presentation of femtosecond lasers platform and: Thirunaukkarasu Kuppan
Ultrafast temporal polarization shaping for adaptive nanostructures
5- Laureline Roffi
Study of ultrafast heat transfer in glasses using mid-infrared vibrational spectroscopy.
14:00–15:00 M2 Summer Internship & Summer School Presentations – Part I
Holy Lewis – Simulation and Characterisation of Hollow-Core Fibres for High-Power Laser Delivery –University of Stuttgart
Haroon Ahmed – Compact Diamond Imager and wide-field NV spin characterization – University of Latvia
Bianca Garcia – Simulation of Nonlinear Effects in Silicon Waveguides – STMicroelectronics
Tariq Hussain – Investigation of Slow-Light in Titanium dioxide Nanobeam Waveguide for 2D Material-Based Photodetectors – UEF
Nosa Inwe – Computer Vision-Based Arthroscopic Video Analysis for Cartilage Lesion Segmentation – UEF
Jack Markham – Developing a Laser Surrogate model using Machine Learning – Aalto University
Mahamudur Rahman – Development of a Raman Hyperspectral Preprocessing and Spectral Ratio Analysis Pipeline for the THz-Skin Project – UEF
Natenaile Shiferaw -Covariate-Conditioned One-Step Diffusion for Multi-Horizon 3D Brain MRI Prediction in Aging and Neurodegeneration – UEF
Melany Koral Soto Carrion -Optical module design for spray chamber diagnostics and laser ignition – Wärtsilä Finland Oy
Muhammad Usaid – Modelling and Sampling Methods for Laser-Generated Colors – UJM
15:00 -15:30 Break
15:30–16:30 –M2 Summer Internship & Summer School Presentations – Part II
Maryam Forouhari – Embedded System for Real-Time Eye-Gaze Visualization and Instrument Detection and Tracking in Microsurgery – UEF
Fang Zhao – Single-layer anti-reflective coating on silicon – UEF
James Ameh – PET Image Harmonisation from Multiple Source for Prostate Cancer Classification using Deep Learning –Turku PET Centre
Bilal Anayat – Enhancement of Optical Absorption in Waveguide-Integrated 2D Material Photodetectors Using Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Structures – IMG Electronic
Jose Alan Barraza Villaverde – Controlling morphological and optical properties of diamond needles – UEF
Alex Bramwell – Controlling morphological and optical properties of diamond needles – UEF
Tanu Prava Mondal – Local Modification of Color Centers in Diamond Needles – UEF
Joshua Dakim Solomon -Development and Application of an Automated Optical Kerr Effect Spectrometer: Ultrafast Rotational and Vibrational Dynamics in Reference Molecular Liquids – Linköping University
Mahmoud Tantawy – Metamaterials as Optical Logic Gates –Zewail City of Science and Technology
16:30–17:00 – M2 Q&A with M1 Students
17:00- 17h:30 – Best Presentation Award

Tuesday 20 October – Find Your Career

08:45-9h:15 : Welcome Coffee
9:15–09:30 : Alumni Association Presentation and Newsletter Sign up – Abhishek Padhly, Hector Morales Gomez, Melany Coral Soto Carrion
09h30–09h50 : Anti Vilokki – ASML
10:50-10:20 : Hector Morales Gomez – Zeiss
10:20-10:40 : Christeena Paul Kallukkaran – PhD, University of Lille
10:40-11:00 : Coffee break
11:00–11:20 : Abhishek Padhy -PhD candidate, Université de Namur and Université Catholique de Louvain
11:20-11:40 : Fernando Engels – Fabrication engineer at CERN and Optical engineering consultant – readily3D
11:40-12:00 : Pavel Talchikov – Optics Engineer – EULITHA
14:00–15:15 : Workshop Improve you CV and motivation letter – No Limit Education – Part I
15:15 -15 : 40 : Coffee Break
15:40-17:15 : Workshop Improve you CV and motivation letter – No Limit Education – Part II

Wednesday 21 October – Meet Industry Representatives

10:00-11:00 Genta Rexha, Assoc. Professor Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania, “From Research to Innovation: Opportunities through Horizon Europe Cluster 4”
11:00-12:00 Manuel Flores, Development Engineer, Toppan Security, France, “Securing Identity and Intellectual Property through Innovation”
12:00-14:00 : Lunch
14:00-14:45 Davit Hakobyan, Senior Optical Scientist, MERCK, France
15:00-15:45 Elisenda Lara, EPIC
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Round Table with Elisenda, Davit, Manuel and Genta.

Thursday 22 October – Meet Academic Researchers

9:30-10:15 Matthieu Roussey, Professor, UEF, Finland, “Integrated optics in Joensuu: A glimpse of the future”
10:15-11:00 Augustas Vaitkevičius, Professor, University of Vilinus
11:15-12:00 François Royer, « research at LabHC within European and industrial collaborative projects”, Director of Hubert Curien Lab, UJM, France
14:00-14:45 Rajeev Dwivedi, Post-doctoral fellow, UJM, France
15:00-15:45 Amine Naït Alai, UPEC, France, “Medical Biometrics and Generative AI”