Invited speakers

Plenary lectures

• Philippe Smet
  

Non-luminescent defects in solids: enemies or friends?

LumiLab, Department of Solid State Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

• Luis Carlos

Lanthanide‐Based Thermometers at the Cutting‐Edge of Luminescence  Thermometry: From Biomedical Applications to the Internet of Things

Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Invited talks

• Maria Rita Cicconi

Rare earth elements in glasses, a multiscale approach

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

• Géraldine Dantelle

Nd³⁺ doped garnet-type nanocrystals for temperture sensing at the nanoscale

Institut Louis Néel, CNRS, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France

• Pieter Dorenbos
  

Nephelauxetic effect on the binding energy in the lanthanide 4f^q ground states

Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft, The Netherlands

• Peter Dragic
  

Towards laser cooling in rare earth doped silicate glass fibers

Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

• Maurizio Ferrari
  

Rare earth elements and urban mines: critical stategies for sustainable development

CNR, Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Trento, Italy

• Franck Mady

Specific mechanisms associated with rare-earth dopants (Yb, Er, Ce) in the radiation-induced attenuation of silica-based optical fibers

Institut de Physique de Nice, Univeristé Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Nice, France

• Laeticia Petit
  

Progress on the preparation of glass-based phosphate materials for photonics

Photonics Laboratory, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

• Stéphane Petoud

Metal-organic Frameworks as Near-infrared Emitting Materials Based on Lanthanide Cations: from Fundamental Science to Biological Imaging

Center for Molecular Biophysics, CNRS, Orléans, France

• Adolfo Speghini

Lanthanide ions activated optical nanothermometers

NRG - Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

• Jumpei Ueda

Understanding the luminescence properties of Ce³⁺-doped garnet phosphors on the basis of composition, crystal and electronic structure

Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies,  Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

• Irene Villa
  

Inorganic nanomaterials and doping strategies for future perspectives in scintillation applications and biomedicine

 Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

• Claudia Wickleder

New Directions in Luminescent Nanoparticles

Inorganic Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

 Erbium doped GaN for Laser Applications

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New-York University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Traps with controllable depths in persistent luminescence phosphors