Conference Agenda

Prof. Hatice Altug is professor at Ecole Polytechnique since 2013 and the head of BioNanoPhotonic Systems (BIOS) Laboratory at School of Engineering. Prior to EPFL, she was professor at Boston University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from 2007 to 2013.  She received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University (U.S.) in 2007 and her B.S. in Physics from Bilkent University (Turkey) in 2000. Her research is focused in the application of nanophotonics for life sciences and biomedical fields to develop next-generation biosensing, spectroscopy and bioimaging systems. Her laboratory has world-leading expertise to engineer plasmonic/dielectric based metasurfaces that operate from visible to Infrared spectrum for leveraging complementary optical detection techniques such as surface enhanced vibrational spectroscopy (SEIRA, SERS, SEVCD), multimodal imaging, digital biosensing. They innovatively combine nanophotonics with novel nanofabrication approaches, microfluidics, surface chemistry and AI techniques to achieved lab-on-chip devices and enhanced device performance. Prof. Altug received numerous awards including European Physical Society Emmy Noether Distinction, Optical Society of America Adolph Lomb Medal, U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award and Koc University Science Medal. She received European Commission ERC Consolidator and Proof of Concept Grants, U.S. Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Massachusetts Life Science Center New Investigator Award. In 2011, she has been named to Popular Science Magazine’s "Brilliant 10" list. She is a fellow of Optical Society of America and senior member of SPIE. In 2023 she was listed among the most highly cited researcher by Clarivate