Tutorial Speakers

Dr Ludovic Bellon, ENS de Lyon

Ludovic Bellon is a CNRS Research Director in the ENS de Lyon, in the Laboratoire de Physique, and a part time assistant professor in the Mechanics Department at École Polytechnique, both in France. He received is PhD in 2001 in the ENS Lyon on the aging dynamics of glassy materials, before a post-doc in Santiago de Chile in fluid mechanics. Back in Lyon since 2003, he has developed an experimental research activity at the cross roads between statistical physics and micro & nano-mechanics, with a strong emphasis on low noise instrumentation. He is an expert in thermal noise, either to understand its expression at the mesoscale in devices in- or out-of-equilibrium, or to use these fluctuations as a measurement tool of the mechanical properties of nano-systems.

Dr Jean-Charles Beugnot, FEMTO-ST Institute

Jean-Charles Beugnot is currently full-time CNRS researcher in Optics department at FEMTO-ST Institute (France). In 2007, he received a PhD from the University of Franche-Comté, France with a thesis on Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fiber. He developed at this moment his field of expertise, i.e. nonlinear effect in optical fibers. At the beginning of 2008, he has joined for two and half years the Group for fiber optics in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) where he focused on Nonlinear Optics and fiber optic metrology. Since June 2010, he has been working in FEMTO-ST institute, Besançon and has got a permanent position as a CNRS researcher in 2011. His research interests include nonlinear effect in optical fiber and photon/phonon interaction like Brillouin scattering. He actually develops an activity on tapered optical fiber for laser and sensing application.

Pr Johannes Fink, Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Johannes received a Master’s degree in physics from the University of Vienna. At ETH Zurich he conducted a PhD in the Wallraff group for which he was awarded the ETH Medal in 2010. After a PostDoc at ETH he became an IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar and a senior staff scientist in the Painter group at the California Institute of Technology. In January 2016 he started the Quantum Integrated Devices laboratory at IST Austria where he works on quantum microwave photonics, ultra-high impedance physics and multi-qubit quantum electrodynamics.

Pr Christophe Galland, EPFL

I studied at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (X2003) and received my PhD in 2010 from ETH Zürich for a thesis in solid-state quantum optics with individual carbon nanotubes, in the Quantum Photonics Group of Prof. Ataç Imamoglu. As a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Lab (USA) I studied the photophysics of individual nanocrystal quantum dots in the groups of Victor Klimov and Han Htoon. I was investigating the mechanisms responsible for fluorescence fluctuations and how to control them. I then moved to the University of Delaware in the group of Michael Hochberg to work in the emerging field of integrated quantum optics. I was leading international projects such as the realisation of an on-chip source of quantum correlated photons integrating optical filters and demultiplexers. From 2013 to 2016, I was working at EPFL in the group of Prof. Kippenberg in the field of quantum optomechanics with an Ambizione Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). My work focused on the creation of non-classical vibrational states of mesoscopic oscillators and on the amplification of vibrations in molecules. Since May 2017, I am leading the Laboratory of Quantum and Nano-Optics at EPFL as an SNSF-funded professor in the Institute of Physics. My team investigates light-matter interaction at the nanoscale and in the quantum regime, with a focus on molecules embedded in plasmonic cavities and on nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Applications include quantum sensing and optical frequency conversion.

Pr Anja Metelmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Anja Metelmann is a Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and the Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. In addition she is a Professor Conventionné of the University of Strasbourg at the Centre Européen de Sciences Quantiques in France. Before February 2022 she was an Emmy Noether research group leader in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Free University Berlin in Germany. In 2012, she received her Ph.D. in physics from the Technical University Berlin in Germany. She spent her postdoctoral time in the Physics Department of McGill University in Montreal, and in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. Anja Metelmann's research interests lie in the fundamental aspects and applications of superconducting circuits and mechanical systems in the quantum regime.