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Women in Photonics

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The Mini Symposium Women in Photonics Benelux aims to bring professionals and academia together to support each other.

It is increasingly recognised that diversity is critical for knowledge and innovation, both in industry and academia. Photonics is one of the key emerging technologies that can become the technology of the 21st century. 

Women represent far less than 10% of the workforce in photonics in most countries in Northern Europe, including the Netherlands. This figure drops even lower when looking at leadership positions.

The Mini Symposium Women in Photonics Benelux aims to bring professionals and academia together to support each other.

This year the event happened  on 26 June 2024 at AMOLF – Amsterdam Science Park 104 

Program, from 12:30 – 17:00:

 

    • Registration and Lunch

    • Welcome

    • Break

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    • Break

    • 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. 

Qian serves on the Editorial Board of the RSNA Journal Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. She is on the committee of the International SCMR Registry, the world’s largest clinical cardiac MRI database. Qian served as the Programme Chair and Area Chair for MICCAI and AAAI. Before joining TU Delft, Qian was a researcher at LKEB, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center. She obtained her PhD from University of Twente, the Netherlands, and her MSc and BSc with Distinction from Fudan University, China.
 
Her research focuses on trustworthy AI for medical imaging, with the purpose of understanding AI’s uncertainty and improving its trustworthiness in high-stake medical imaging applications and in general.

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