Topological Photonics 2025 (TOPOPHOTO25)

Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri is an Ikerbasque Researcher at the Donostia International Physics Center, where he leads a research group of 12 people (6 men, 6 women). His research group primarily studies the interaction of light and matter at the nanometric scale, both at the level of basic science and by seeking applications in biological problems and quantum technologies. Currently, he leads, along with Rafael Yuste, the Basque NanoNeuro Network (B3N), an international consortium of 10 research groups (7 in the Basque Country, 3 in the USA) focused on the application of nanotechnology to the field of neuroscience. However, his contribution to society goes far beyond this. He is an active science communicator. He gives multiple public conferences each year, has been a regular collaborator on Euskadi Irratia since 2007, a contributor to the magazine JotDown, and a member of the interdisciplinary program “Mestizajes” of the DIPC. He is also the co-founder of the initiative “Pride for Science” in the Basque Country, a remarkable effort aimed at increasing the visibility of the LGBTIQ+ community in science in Euskadi.

Andrea Alù is a Distinguished Professor, founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is affiliated with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the Applied Research Laboratories, both based at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor. His research interests span over a broad range of technical areas, including applied electromagnetics, nano-optics and nanophotonics, microwave, THz, infrared, optical and acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, nonlinearities and nonreciprocity, cloaking and scattering, acoustics, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas.

Dario Bercioux is an Ikerbasque Research Associate at the Donostia International Physics Center.

Prof. Dr. Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres (www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/clivia-marfa-sotomayor-torres-422 ) obtained her BSc. (Hons.) in Physics (U. Southampton) and her Dr. Phil. in Physics (U. Manchester) with a thesis on semiconductor physics. She has held tenured academic appointments at St Andrews, Glasgow, Wuppertal and at University College Cork. Since 2008 she is an ICREA Research Professor at the ICN2 where she leads the 17-strong Phononic and Photonic Nanostructures group (www.icn2-p2n.eu/). She was a Visiting Professor at KTH (2013-18). Her main research field is nanophononics, focusing on phonons in confined systems, thermal transport, optomechanics and topological phononics. Her research interest extend to nanofabrication and nanometrology. She works actively in several European projects and currently coordinates the FET Open project PhENOMEN on phonon circuits.