POLIMI

Marco Marangoni

Project Coordinator

He is Professor of Physics. His research focuses on vibrational spectroscopy and imaging, coherent Raman microscopy and metrology, nonlinear optics, optical frequency combs. He has published >110 papers (H-index: 35). He is at the head of the Lecco branch of the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology of the National Research Council since 2016.

Giulio Cerullo

Project Fellow

He is Professor of Physics. His research focuses on ultrashort pulse generation, ultrafast spectroscopy and coherent Raman microscopy. He has published >450 papers, cited >35000 times (H-index: 97). He is a Fellow of the Optical Society and the European Physical Society.

Davide Gatti

Project Fellow

He is Professor of Physics at the Lecco campus of Politecnico di Milano. His research fields encompass high precision molecular spectroscopy, laser physics, metrology, nonlinear optics, and optical frequency combs

Luca Moretti

Project Fellow

He is a Junior Assistant Professor in Physics (2022).  His PhD in Physics and PostDoc research activities were focused on light conversion for energy and heat generation on a disparate variety of materials, mostly studied by means of transient absorption spectroscopy. He will exploit his experience in ultrafast photo-induced phenomena, non-linear optics and laser physics for the development of TROPHY.

Guglielmo Vesco

Project Fellow

He is a Post-Doc researcher hired on TROPHY for the optical development of the laser source and of the microsope.  His main scientific interest is the application of advanced photonics techniques to biophysics problems. During his Ph.D. period (2018-2021), he gained mastery with advanced optical setups involved in spectroscopy techniques such as TCSPC and FRET.

ICFO

Niek van Hulst

Unit Coordinator

He obtained a PhD in Molecular & Laser-Physics at the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands), on microwave-laser double resonance molecular-beam spectroscopy. After research in non-linear optics of organic materials, integrated optics, atomic force and near-field optical microscopy, he was full Professor at MESA+ Institute for NanoTechnology, University of Twente (Netherlands) with focus on single molecule detection and scanning probe technology. In 2005, attracted by the Catalan quality-based science policy, he started as ICREA Research Professor and senior group leader at ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences, in Barcelona. Fellow OSA. Recipient of Körber European Science Award; City of Barcelona Prize; European Physical Society Prize; and 3 ERC Advanced Grants.

CNR

Cristian Manzoni

Unit Coordinator

Since 2010 is at IFN-CNR, where he is now Senior Researcher. His research focuses on generation and characterization of few-cycle light pulses in the UV, visible and IR range for time-resolved spectroscopy. Recently, his interests extended to Fourier-transform hyperspectral imaging and microscopy, and on their coupling to ultrafast science, with applications in remote and environmental sensing, conservation science, security and medical imaging.

Renzo Vanna

Project Fellow

He is researcher at IFN-CNR, based at Politecnico di Milano. With a PhD in Molecular Medicine and 7 years of experience in applying Raman spectroscopy in the clinical environment, his main goal is to apply new photonic technologies to biomedical problems. He is member of “Raman4Clinics” and of the International Society for Clinical Spectroscopy (CLIRSPEC).

JUH

Orlando Guntinas-Lichius

Unit Coordinator

He is Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany. His clinical research focuses on clinical trials and biophotonic technologies for better cancer detection and for image-guided surgery. He has published >600 papers, cited >9000 times (H-index 45). He is presidium member of the German Society for Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Franziska Hoffmann

Project Fellow

She is leading the research group ‘Innovative Biophotonics’ at the Jena University Hospital. She hold a PhD in Biology. Her main research focus is on the development and application of biophotonic methods for the analysis of cancer tissue at a deep molecular level. The goal is to pave the way for these techniques into clinical applications.

LT

Yves Emery

Unit Coordinator

Co-founder, CEO, PhD in Physics (Optics), he holds a Business Administration Postgraduate certificate (HEC-UNIL). Prior to Lyncée, he has worked several years as Director of R&D and production in two start-ups active in the field of medical devices. His experience enables him to understand researchers’ issues and to develop products in accordance with customers’ needs, production imperatives, and financial aspects.https://www.linkedin.com/in/yves-emery-196a6/

Etienne Cuche

Project Fellow

Co-founder, CTO, PhD in Physics, he is the inventor of the basic concepts of DHM. He has grown the skills to lead the R&D team and he has demonstrated its ability to transform a scientific discovery into an industrial product. Presently he supervises R&D and the design of new systems and products. He is in charge of Lyncée’s patent portfolio.

Zahra Monemhaghdoust

Project Fellow

She is Product Manager R&D engineer at Lyncée Tec SA. She has a PhD in Photonics with experience in digital and analog holography, design and development of optical systems for imaging purposes, and design and fabrication of custom elements based on various holographic diffraction grating technologies for specific solutions in optical imaging system design.

Benjamin Rappaz

Project Fellow

Head of Life sciences: biologist, during his PhD in collaboration with Lyncée, he has developed since 2003 fundamentals of the interpretation of quantitative phase imaging by DHM in terms of biological underlying processes. He has published many seminal scientific contributions in this field. With his expertise and knowledge of the life science community, its language and sensibility, he is key to the definition and development of the product range and applications in Life Science.

UNEXE

Nick Stone

Unit Coordinator

He is a Professor of Biomedical Imaging and Biosensing and NHS Consultant Clinical Scientist (Medical Physics). He has pioneered the use of vibrational spectroscopy for clinical diagnostics. He has published over 250 papers with h-index of 56. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Applied Spectroscopy.

UCAM

Pietro Liò

Unit Coordinator

Professor, has PhDs in Complex Systems and Non Linear Dynamics, and in Theoretical Genetics. He is the author of over 400 papers. His specialties include bioinformatics algorithms, predictive models in personalised medicine, modeling comorbidity and aging, methods for combining multi-scale biological processes, statistics of multi omics and multi physics modelling of molecules-cell-tissue-organ interactions.