Photonics Frontiers Award 2025 - The Shortlist Series #3
Wed, 29th May - 3pm BST
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Join us for an exclusive look at the shortlisted entries for this year’s Photonics Frontiers Award 2025.
In this exclusive webcast - the final in a series of three - we take a look at the entrants and their applications who have made it to the ‘semi-finals’ of this showcase of the most innovative projects that use photonics to solve problems across the most popular industry sectors.
Where The Photonics100 celebrates people, The Photonics Frontiers Award celebrates the application of photonics.
Now our independent judges have made their decision, we hear from the shortlisted applications in the fields of photonics and optical sensors; spectroscopy applications; and environmental monitoring and sustainability.
FULL SHORTLIST:
Multi-Spectral Sensing For Minimising Global Food Loss And Waste By Detecting The Ideal Harvesting Time
Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope
Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) platform
Ultra Compact Digital Nano Spectrometer-on-a-Chip for Wearable, Mobile and IoT
White Light Transmission Spectroscopy for Rapid Quality Control in Nanoimprinted Sensors
Diamond-Enhanced ATR Fiber Probes for Robust Industrial Spectroscopy
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Holographic extended reality (HXR) platform |
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| Mark Elliott Chief Operating Officer, Europa Science | |
| Mark leads the operational delivery of Europa Science’s activities, including the content teams who deliver market-leading editorial and commercial solutions online, in print and across social media platforms. A trained journalist, he has worked on many media brands for more than 35 years, including ELLE, Empire and The Face. He was Managing Director of Time Out London for four years. |
Viacheslav Artyushenko Founder & Senior Advisor, art photonics GmbH | |
| Viacheslav (Slava) Artyushenko was born in 1954 and got his PhD in physics of solid state in 1981 – focused on his pioneering development of unique technology of polycrystalline fibres for Mid IR-range: 3-18µm. His multiple publications and patents were devoted to specialty fibre optic technologies and their applications in laser surgery and diagnostics, in process-spectroscopy and fibre optic sensing. In 1998, he founded art photonics GmbH in Berlin – one of the worldwide leading manufacturers of various fibres, cables, bundles and spectroscopy probes used in very broad spectral range 0.3-16µm for many industrial, medical, scientific and other applications. At the end of 2023, art photonics was acquired by Nynomic AG to join 12 other partners of Nynomic group. Dr. Artyushenko and the art photonics team are members of EPIC, CPACT, SPIE, OPTICA, SPECTARIS, Optec-BB, and GDCh-DECHEMA. |
Abdel Karim Ruvalcaba-Perez Friedrich Schiller University | |
| Abdel Karim Ruvalcaba-Perez is a Ph.D. candidate in physics at Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) in Jena, Germany, working under the supervision of Professors Andreas Tünnermann and Volker Böhm. From October 2021 to September 2024, the ams-OSRAM Group sponsored him to conduct his doctoral research. His current work focuses on the development of multi-spectral analysis methods and sensors spanning the visible (VIS), near-infrared (NIR), and short-wave infrared (SWIR) ranges. He is a co-inventor on a patent filed in collaboration with ams-OSRAM, reflecting the innovative impact of his research in spectral sensing technologies. His work has been presented at international conferences, including SPIE Photonics West 2025. |
Abdel Karim holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he specialized in micro- and nanoelectronics. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) campus Mexico City (CCM), during which he undertook specialization courses in photonics and nanofabrication at institutions including the University of British Columbia and TUM. Abdel K.'s current work focuses on the development of spectral analyses and spectral sensors in a multi-spectral domain, covering the visible, near infrared, and short-wave infrared.
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Mike Hardy Smart Nano NI Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast | |
 | Mike Hardy is an interdisciplinary scientist having worked within Physics, Chemical Engineering, and Biological Sciences. His background is in spectroscopy, specifically surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), custom-built optics, and condensed matter physics. Mike completed his BSc and PhD in Physics at Queen's University Belfast under the supervision of Dr Paul Dawson, studying Fano resonances for quantitative SERS, and collaborating with Airbus Group Innovations (Munich, DE) on the EU-funded, Bomb Factory Detection by Networks of Advanced Sensors (BONAS) project. |
| He is currently a Research Fellow on the new Smart Nano NI Project at Queen's, led by Prof. Robert M. Bowman. His activities within Smart Nano have moved into micro-engineering and optical device design, frequently liaising with partner companies Yelo, Cirdan Imaging, and Causeway Sensors. His other interests include fundamental studies in theoretical-experimental SERS comparisons, wider plasmonics and nano-photonics research, and more recently, the standardisation of Raman data/devices, and use of machine learning within spectroscopy. He is a supporter of technology transfer activities within universities and a graduate from the University of Birmingham's Medici Enterprise Training Programme. Mike is also a passionate advocate for cooperation across the sciences and is keen to establish strong collaborative activities between leading research groups. | |
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