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Prof. Edik U. Rafailov received the Ph.D. degree from Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1992. In 1997, he moved to St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK and in 2005, he established a new group in Dundee University, Scotland, UK. In 2014, he and his Optoelectronics and Biomedical Photonics Group moved to Aston University, Birmingham, UK. He has authored and coauthored more than 500 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including four books, over ten invited chapters and numerous plenary/invited talks. His current research interests include high-power CW and ultra-short pulsed lasers, generation of UV/visible/IR/MIR and THz radiation, nanostructures, nonlinear and integrated optics, and biomedical photonics. He coordinated the €14.7M FP7 FAST-DOT project development of new ultrafast lasers for biophotonics applications and the €12.5M NEWLED project which aims to develop a new generation of white LEDs. He also coordinated the H2020 FET projects: Mesa-Brain (aims to develop 3D nano-printing technology for functional three-dimensional human stem cell derived neural networks), and recently coordinate NEUROPA (aims to develop novel non-invasive brain theragnostic approaches), and PLATFORMA. He also leads a few other projects funded by EU FP7, H2020 and EPSRC. In 2014 he has been awarded the Lebedev Medal of the Russian Optical Society and in 2022 elected as a Fellow of Optica (former OSA).

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Dr. Huabei Jiang started his career as an assistant professor at Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina, USA)in 1997 and became an associate professor and a professor at Clemson University in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He moved to University of Florida (Gainesville, Florida, USA)in 2005 and became the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Endowed Chair there in 2008. Huabei joined University of South Florida (USF) (Tampa, Florida, USA) in 2017 as a Professor and Director of USF Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging. Huabei has published nearly 500 peer-reviewed scientific articles and patents. He is also the author of four books on diffuse optical, photoacoustic, thermoacoustic and fluorescence molecular imaging, respectively. He has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1998 and has won numerous national and international awards. Huabei is a Fellow of OSA/OPTICA, SPIE and AIMBE. Outsideof his research/teaching, Huabei enjoys practicing Chinese Calligraphy and paintings (ink/color pencil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic, and oil). He had twoone-person exhibitions of his artworks in July 2019 and August 2023, respectively, in Chengdu, China, and has won multiple awards in several international art competitions since 2021.

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Dr. Qing Yang is a professor in the College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University. She is the director of Research Center for Humanoid Sensing in Zhejiang Lab during 2019-2023. Qing Yang received her Bachelor and PhD degree in College of Materials Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2001 and 2006, respectively.She was a visiting scholar at George Tech from 2009-2012. She was a visiting Scientist at University of Cambridge in 2018. Dr. Yang’s research focuses on micro-/nanophotonic devices, super-resolution imaging and multimodal endoscopy.Totally, Dr. Yang published 90 peer reviewed journal articlesand the publications have been cited by others more than 4300 times. She holds more than 40 patents. She has been invited to give talk in 70 conferences. The cross-scale dual-modal endoscopy was verified in pre-clinical experiments in Grade 3A hospitals. The equipment got the identification of class II innovative medical devices. And high sensitive inspection instruments have been applied to more than 20 production lines of 10 enterprises. She is the associate editor of Science Bulletin, Editoral member of Advanced Photonics, IEEE spectrum, leading guest editor of Optics Communications, editor of Journal of Nanotechnology Nanomedicine Nanobiotechnology, editor of the books Advanced Coating Materials.Yang got the NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar award.Yang’s work was selected into “The Top Ten major developments in optics in China”, awarded the International Advanced Materials Award and the Second Prize of National Award for Technological Invention, Wang Daheng Optical Award etc.

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Xenia Bogomolec is the founder of Quant-X Security & Coding, an IT and information security company with an R&D team. Her personal journey started with mathematics studies and algorithm research. Her industrial experience ranges from algorithm and system development to IT and information security. She dug into quantum technologies in 2016 while assessing algorithm complexity in the scope of post-quantum security. Since then, she has built a team that assesses quantum security proofs for photonic devices and integrates quantum and post-quantum security into classical communication protocols. Xenia believes that innovation is most promising when compatibility with established standards is considered.

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Prof. Mike Leszczynski is an esteemed scientist renowned for his contributions to the field of semiconductors. As the Head of the Semiconductor Microstructure Laboratory in the Institute of High Pressure Physics, he leads cutting-edge research on the microstructure of semiconductors. He also serves as the vice president of TopGaN Lasers, a company that specializes in fabricating laser diodes for niche applications such as quantum technology, with wavelengths ranging from 380 to 480 nm. Additionally, Prof. Leszczyński holds the position of president of the Polish Society of Crystal Growth, showcasing his expertise and leadership in the realm of crystal growth. With approximately 400 published papers and an h-index of 44, his prolific output and influence in the field solidify his standing as a key figure in the world of semiconductor research.

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Prof. Gintautas Tamulaitis received his PhD degree in physics from Vilnius University, Lithuania. Currently, he is a full professor at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology at Vilnius University. His research background is in laser spectroscopy of semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures. Within the last few years, he focuses predominantly on the applications of laser spectroscopy in the development of scintillating materials for fast radiation detectors in demand in high energy physics experiments and medical imaging devices. He authored and co-authored more than 200 research papers and is the recipient of two Lithuanian Science Awards.

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Professor Shiro Ryu is a full professor at the Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. He has been researching coherent optical fiber communication technology for more than forty years, from the early research stage when he was a graduate student directed by Professor Takanori Okoshi, a pioneer of coherent optical systems,at the University of Tokyo. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he worked at KDD R&D Laboratories and succeeded in the first sea trial of coherent optical communication systems in 1988.Based on a strong background in coherent optical fiber communication technology, he published a book entitled “Coherent Lightwave Communication Systems” from Artech House in 1995. He also worked at SoftBank HQs, where he was in charge of designing and deploying long-haul coherent DWDM systems over 100 Gbit/s per wavelength. Since 2016, he has been a Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences of Meiji University. His research interests are optical wireless communication technology and optical measurement using coherent heterodyne detection technology.

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Ketan Pancholi is lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Robert Gordon University. With background in Mechanical Engineering, he has worked in metallurgy and energy industry before joining the university teaching. During his PhD under joint supervision of Prof Edirisinghe and Prof Eleanor Stride at University College London, he started working on microbubble production methodologies using microfluidics. As a part of PhD, he developed two methods of producing microbubble such as T-Junction and T-junction coupled with electrospray. Additionally, he also demonstrated the possibility of using microbubbles in application such as material processing and image contrast agents. Soon after his graduation, he worked at Robert Gordon University and Newcastle University as a lecturer. He has research interest in every aspect of bubbles, multi-layered droplets and foams which finds applications in varied fields such as biomedical, self-assembly based microscale material manipulation and fluid-structure interaction. Dr. Ketan Pancholi is involved in the soft matter research at RGU with the main emphasis on non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics relevant to mixing of the with inorganic nanoparticles. His work in this area spans all topics of polymer nanocomposites including self-assembly, stimuli (magnetic, electric, optical etc.) directed self-assembled microstructure, chain relaxation, and nanoparticle diffusion and dynamics. The work combines theory and experimental aspects to prepare materials for electromagnetic applications such as energy conversion/storage in mind. Furthermore, his work extends into processing of the multiple materials having different physical properties to produce patterned nanocomposite films through directed self-assembly/co-flowing flow for many magneto-optical applications.

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Anna Backerra graduated in theoretical physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands and worked for three years at Philips Research Laboratories. She continued independently, making a search for complementary physics. To develop a way of complementary thinking she studied composition at the Conservatory in Enschede and in Saint Petersburg (Russia). After that she constructed a complementary mathematical language and applied this to physics, obtaining twin physics. The surprisingly diverse results are published in 13 papers in Physical Essays, Applied Physics Research, Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Int. J. of Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine and Nano Progress. They may be downloaded at www.itammagnetics.com. The most recent article is titled 'Electron creation by photon annihilation'. The results are combined in the book 'Twin Physics, the Complementary Model of phenomena', Lambert Academic Publishing, www.morebooks.shop; soon it will appear in a revised and updated form.

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“Telecommunications Engineer with a M.Sc. in Advanced Electronic Systems by the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. He has experience of more than 15 years of working as an R&D engineer in several research institutes, focusing his research area on embedded hardware and software, edge computing, and edge artificial intelligence, applying these technologies to multidisciplinary areas ranging from autonomous driving and smart mobility to advance manufacturing"

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Shunsuke Kobayashi, born in Saitama, Japan, in 1932, embarked on a distinguished academic and research journey. In 1955, he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Tokyo University of Science (TUS), setting the foundation for his scholarly pursuits. From 1955 to 1959, Kobayashi served as an Assistant Professor at TUS, contributing to the academic environment. His dedication to learning led him to pursue graduate studies at The University of Tokyo from 1959 to 1964. During this period, he earned his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering in 1964, showcasing his commitment to advanced research. Following his doctoral achievement, Kobayashi became a staff member at RIKEN in Saitama, Japan, and contributed to the institution's research endeavors from 1964 to 1978. His academic career progressed as he assumed roles at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) from 1978 to 1996, initially as an Associate Professor and later as a Professor. Since 1996, he holds the esteemed title of Professor Emeritus at TUAT. Notably, from 1996 to 2014, Kobayashi served as Professor and Funding Director of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi. Even in his emeritus years, he continues to make impactful contributions to academia. His exceptional contributions have garnered recognition, with awards such as the SID Jan Rajman Prize in 1995, the Japan Academy Prize in 2021, and the Japan Emperor Medal in 2022, underscoring the profound impact of his work in the field.

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Vitaly Shchukin received the Diploma in physics and engineering from St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia, and the Ph.D. and Doctor of Sciences Degrees in physics and mathematics from Abraham Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, in 1983, 1987 and 1999, respectively. He was with Abraham Ioffe Institute, Technical University of Berlin, NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH (now Innolume GmbH), and Dortmund. He is currently the Chief Scientific Officer at VI Systems GmbH, Berlin. He authored and co-authored >250 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, over 30 patent families, and a monograph. His research topics cover self-organization phenomena at the epitaxy of nanostructures and the development of advanced optoelectronic devices with novel functionality including specially designed vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, edge-emitting lasers, light-emitting diodes, single photon sources, etc. He is the recipient of the State Prize of Russia for Science and Technology in 2001 and of the Abraham Ioffe Prize in 1999 and 2002.

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Professor Tatjana Gric (female), since 2009 has been engaged in the investigation of waveguide devices (wave guide modulators, filters etc.), namely on proposing their electrodynamical analysis of various complex structures (e.g., tissue-like structures). Another major goal of her studies is plasmonics as the examination of the interaction between electromagnetic field and free electrons in a metal. The optically-active nanostructures have been simulated and their fundamental photonic properties have been explored. During past few years she has been working on the investigation of the nanostructured composites and their fascinating properties. She has authored and co-authored over 70 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. She also holds 1LT patent.

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After graduating from Izmir Bornova Anatolian High School, Sena Kavas commenced her undergraduate education in the photonics department at Izmir Institute of Technology. In her first year of undergraduate studies, she assumed the role of president within the IZTECH Optics and Photonics Society, a position supported by OPTICA. Under her leadership, 15 online conferences and 5 physical conferences were successfully organized. Additionally, Sena Kavas is an active member of OPTICA Society. She is also actively involved in a team endeavoring to establish a startup company focused on producing photonic technologies at İzmir Teknopark. Despite being only in her second year, she has already embarked on her graduation project and initiated research on photonic integrated circuits under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Hasan Göktaş at the institute.

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Prof. Friedrich Grimm was born in Stuttgart in 1954. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1980. After having finished his studies in 1981, he worked as an employed architect and later on temporarily joined the scientific staff of the Institute for Building Construction at the University of Stuttgart. During his practice as a freelanced architect, since 1989 he took part in competitions and completed several multifamily houses in southern Germany. Due to a series of books, which he has written in the field of steel construction, edited by Ernst & Sohn in Berlin (2003), and one the subject of one family homes, edited by Callwey in Munich (2006), he was nominated a professor honorary in 2009 by the faculty one, for architecture and urban design at the university of Stuttgart. In 2016, he founded the RES- Institute as a completely independent think tank in the field of renewable energies. Since then he has worked with passion and endurance on projects matching the RES-Institute obligation to provide blueprints for a friendly climate on Earth. Several patents in the field of concentrated solar thermal systems led him into the field of optics where he invented a wide angel sensor, recording light signals with infinite depth of field in real time. Among his inventions, there is also a new achromatic lens focusing light of different wavelengths, even x-rays. His latest invention relates to a quantum mechanical device that, making use of the electronic spin, is creating a toroidal and a poloidal magnetic field component in an electromagnetically enclosed plasma of a fusion reactor.

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Gaetano Assanto, PhD, is a distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University "Roma Tre" in Italy. He obtained his Master's in Electronic Engineering from the University of Palermo in 1981, followed by a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 1987. Throughout his career, Prof. Assanto has held research positions at renowned institutions like the Center for Electronic Research in Sicily, the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona, and currently heads the Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Lab (NooEL) at the University "Roma Tre." He is a member of prestigious professional societies such as OSA, SPIE, IEEE-LEOS, and has served on the editorial boards of various esteemed journals in the field of optics and photonics. Recognized for his contributions, he's been honored with scholarships including Fulbright and ISEP, and holds notable distinctions as an OSA Fellow and IEEE Fellow. Prof. Assanto has authored and co-authored over 930 publications, demonstrating his significant impact on the field. His dedication to research and leadership in nonlinear optics have made him a respected figure in the academic community.

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H. Siampour is a Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, focusing his research primarily on investigating the interplay between nanophotonics and quantum optics. Before his current role, he held the position of Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, contributing to the development of a quantum simulation platform utilizing interacting spins in diamond. Prior to that, he was a Postdoc at the University of Sheffield, working on the development of a semiconductor nanophotonic platform for directional spin-photon coupling. He obtained his PhD degree in Nano-optics from the University of Southern Denmark, with his thesis titled "A Nanophotonic Platform for Quantum Optical Integrated Circuits".

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Dr. Mihaela Antonina Calin is currently working as senior researcher 1st degree at the National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics - INOE 2000, Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Mihaela Antonina Calin received her PhD in physics from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Romania. Dr. Mihaela Antonina Calin has authored 65+ scientific papers published in journals indexed in the ISI Web of Knowledge, 50+ international conference proceedings papers and presentations, 2 co-authored books, and 1 unique author book with 1296 citations (Web of Science, h-index 14). Her publications reflect her research interests in biomedical imaging, tissue optics, and laser-tissue interaction. Dr. Mihaela Antonina Calin has also participated in 11 national and international projects, is a reviewer for five prestigious journals, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the American Journal of Optics and Photonics. Her research interests include: (i) biomedical optics (optical and thermal properties of living matter, light-matter interactions, optical and hyperspectral imaging); (ii) signal modeling and processing for hyperspectral imaging; (iii) combination of physics-based modeling with statistical tools; and (iv) model recognition and machine learning for biomedical applications.

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Ilgim Efeturk is one of the first full students of Turkey's first Department of Photonics, which was founded in 2015 and has served undergraduate education since 2019. She is one of the few founding members of the IZTECH Optics and Photonics Society (IZTECH-OPS). which was established on August 5, 2020, as an OPTICA (formerly OSA) Student Chapter and was the first official photonics student branch established within the institute. In addition to being Representative of IZTECH Department of Photonics and Representative of IZTECH Faculty of Science, she is the first female President of the Student Council in the history of her university, which was founded in 1992 and has 6500+ students. In addition to these, she is the Founder and President of IZTECH Quality Community, which was established in December, 2022, in order to disseminate the quality culture in higher education and R&D fields, internalize quality processes, increase the participation of students in the quality assurance system and to carry out studies in this field. She was awarded as one of the 20 Women Scholars to be supported financially and academically in 2022, selected worldwide by Optica (formerly OSA). She became the first Turkish student to be selected for this scholarship supported by major companies such as Google, Intel and Meta to empower the next generation of women leaders in optics and photonics; which accepts student applications from 36 countries and has a very difficult selection process due to its extraordinary application pool. In addition, she is one of the 53 female students and is the first & only photonics student supported academically under the WE-inTech Program which was officially launched by Arçelik Global in Turkey, Arctic in Romania, Defy Appliances in South Africa and Dawlance in Pakistan, and made available for the first time on a global scale to support women in new-generation research and development fields. Ilgim successfully completed her internship within the scope of the Eastern Anatolia Observatory in Erzurum, which hosts Turkey's largest and first NIR telescope with a diameter of 4 meters and she worked on the AO+RC+aO+DR optical performance of the DAG Telescope, especially on astrooptics which includes the adaptive optics & derotator system. She is currently doing a research internship on space robotics, and also conducts various studies on photonics and leadership within prestigious institutions in Turkey.

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I am a former Graduate in Physics Engineering (Integrated MSc Degree). I graduated in 2003 in Physics Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences & Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. My final project concerned Industrial Laser Physics, more specifically the monitoring and measurement of a CO2 industrial Laser beam used for cutting and welding of materials. Therefore I have a good scientific and technological background, with knowledge of laser physics, materials science and their applications within an industrial setting. In more recent years I have been making contacts with and involved with some Photonics and Quantum Computing networks of engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs. These contacts provided me with an actualization of the more cutting-edge developments taking place within respective research & development institutions and industry. My interests have been towards developments in Quantum Photonics, Photonic/Optical Computing and the exciting developemnts around Photonic Integrated Circuits and possible impacts in Data Centers (Datacom and Telecom businesses), Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things, to mention just the few main current time developments promising new innovations and significance for new Industry 4.0 economic revolution.(the actual number of sectors possibly impacted are much larger). I am keen to further my involment within these R&D and Industry developments. Whether through cutting-edge research collaboration or through a more business/commercial participation, my goals for the coming years are to bemore involved with the Photonics/Quantum Computingindustries and research communities

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Dr. Israel Pereira Assunção teaches at the Department of Sciences and Mathematics at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of São Paulo. His current research interests involve the design, synthesis, and photophysics of lanthanide complexes doped into various polymeric and nanostructured systems for applications in energy-converting materials, cancer diagnosis, and treatment (via the SPR effect), as well as optical thermometry, mainly for biological systems. He joined Prof. Ulrich Kynast's research team at the University of Applied Sciences of Münster (Germany) in 2017 and, since August 2018, has been a member of Prof. Hermi Brito's group at the University of São Paulo.

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Dragos Manea has been working as a scientific researcher at the National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics (INOE 2000), Magurele, Romania, since 2016. He is currently a Ph.D. student with interests in software development and artificial intelligence. Dragos Manea completed his Masters in Medical Physics from the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics. Areas of activity include: software development for medical applications; modeling and data processing for hyperspectral imaging; the application of statistical elements in combination with physics-based modeling; the application of machine learning methods for biomedical applications; and a good understanding and working experience with different fundamental elements and concepts of medical image processing and analysis using artificial intelligence techniques.

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Luis Alberto Pérez obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the INFIQC-National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2015. The thesis is entitled: 'Optics at the nanoscale: Plasmonic Nanostructures Design with application to ultrasensitive spectroscopic detection of molecules.' In 2018, he joined the Institute of Material Sciences in Barcelona. He was honored with a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from 2019 to 2021. His research interests focus on light-matter interaction, nanostructure synthesis, and electrodynamic simulations. He is currently working on colloidal nanoparticle arrays, hot electron generation, and CO2 photoreduction.

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During the last decade, Sergey Kobtsev’s research activity centered around mode-locked fiber lasers, and his personal accomplishments in this area have brought new fundamental insights into the generation mechanisms of these lasers and the non-linear transformation of their output. His work also resulted in many times in the achievement of record-breaking output parameters of these lasers. The total record of S. Kobtsev's service exceeds 35 years. S. Kobtsev is distinguished with two academic degrees in physics and mathematics (Ph. D. and Doctor of Science) and the academic rank of docent. He has supervised the preparation and defense of 5 Ph. D. theses. In 2015, S. M. Kobtsev was honored with the OSA’s Outstanding Reviewer Recognition.

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Brian Obare Osoro, I am currently pursuing an MSc. in Physics at Maasai Mara University, Kenya, with a keen interest in optics and photonics. As a 2024 Amplify Scholar, I bring extensive knowledge in lasers and optics, coupled with a background in electronics from my undergraduate studies in Bsc. Physics at Maasai Mara University.In my current role as an Industrial Development Officer under the State Department for Industry in Kenya, I utilize my expertise in physics principles to contribute towards Kenya's ambition to become a mid-industrialized country by 2030. My research focuses on the application of spectroscopy to detect microplastics in bottled drinking water, aligning with UN Sustainable Goal 6 on clean water and sanitation. Recognizing the critical importance of clean water for human health, my work addresses pressing environmental concerns with scientific rigor and innovation. I have presented my research findings at various international conferences, including the ICFO-KNUST Frontiers of Light in Ghana and the 5th African Light Source Conference jointly with the African Physical Society in South Africa. At these conferences, I have discussed topics such as the determination of atomic and molecular spectra for pure Polystyrene using Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Raman Spectroscopy, as well as the use of Fourier Infrared Transform Spectroscopy in sorting plastic waste in the environment. I was recently featured by Maasai Mara University in an article titled empowering future leaders where excellence knows no boundaries which can be found.

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