Program, from 12:30 – 17:00:
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- Registration and Lunch
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- Welcome
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- First Speaker – Esther Alarcón Lladó
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- Break
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- Second Speaker – Qian Tao
- Topic
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- Break
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- Third Speaker – Sara Zilani
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- Break
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- Panel Discussion – Anke Peters (Moderator)
- Networking (drinks and bites)
Meet the speakers
Esther Alarcón Lladó (b. 1982) is a scientific group leader at the NWO-Institute AMOLF and Professor by special appointment at the Van’ Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences (HIMS) at the University of Amsterdam.
After her cum laude PhD in Barcelona (7th July 2009), Esther held post-doc positions at A-STAR (Singapore), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (CA, USA), and EPFL (Lausanne).
All of these are renowned laboratories, and her projects at these institutions have provided Esther with research expertise in a very broad range of research fields. She specialised in photo-electrochemistry, photovoltaics, nanofabrication and nanophotonics, and in this way, trained herself to become a truly multidisciplinary scientist who integrates chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering. During her post-doc time, Esther was awarded four prestigious grants that financed her research (Fulbright Scholarship, Beatriu de Pinos Generalitat Scholarship, EU Marie-Curie Fellowship, and Ambizione Energy Grant). In 2016, Esther founded the “3D Photovoltaics group” at AMOLF.
Qian Tao is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. She directs the TU Delft AI lab for Medical Imaging. Qian is affiliated with the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam (BIGR), Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center.
Sara Ziliani is a Sales Engineer Industrial at Hamamatsu Photonics Italy. She oversees sales in the industrial field for X-ray Non-Destructive Testing, Spectroscopy and Radiation measuring applications, mainly in the Italian territory.
She is part of Hamamatsu Photonics European X-ray NDT Tactical Working Group, that operates to increase European sales, by identifying and developing synergies between Hamamatsu’s five principal European subsidiaries and the Headquarter in Japan.
Before entering the company, Sara pursued a PhD in Physics, Astrophysics and Applied Physics at Milan University, obtained on 13th December 2021. Her PhD project was in the experimental Nuclear Physics field and focused on gamma-ray spectroscopy of light neutron-rich nuclei and radiation detectors. She brought the experimental approach, characteristic of the academic career, directly into the industrial field to understand technical customer requirements and carry out practical demonstrations with photonics instrumentation.
