Plenary and invited speakers

COLA 2026


Plenary speaker

Prof. Anne L'Huillier, Lund University, Sweden, Nobel Prize winner in Physics 2023, The World of Atoms at the Attosecond Time Scale

Sergei V. Bulanov, ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic, Nonlinear Electromagnetic Waves in Strong-Field QED limit


Confirmed invited speakers

Aleksandr Ovsianikov, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

Scaling fs Laser-Based 3D Printing and Bioprinting

Alfred Vogel, University of Luebeck, Germany

Nanosecond Optical Breakdown - from Nanoeffects to Extreme States of Matter

Anastasios D. Koulouklidis, Marvel Fusion GmbH, Germany

Advancing Laser Drivers and Beam Delivery for Scalable Laser-Driven Inertial Fusion

Baerbel Rethfeld, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

Ultrashort Laser Excitation of Metals: Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Transient Optical Properties

François Courvoisier, FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS, France

Ultrafast Laser-Induced Generation of High-Aspect Ratio Nano-Pillars

Holger von Wenckstern, Leipzig University, Germany

Fabrication of Spatially-Addressable Material Libraries of Semiconducting Oxides by Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition

Jean-Philippe Colombier, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, France

Nonlinear Dynamics, Memory, and Feedback in Ultrafast Laser-Driven Surface Nanopatterning

Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany

Atomic to Nano-Scale Structural Dynamics in Laser-Irradiated Materials Studied by Time-Resolved X-ray Scattering

Martin E. Garcia, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Multiscale Simulations from ab initio to Machine Learning for Controlling Time Scales in Femtosecond Laser-Induced Melting and Recrystallization

Masaaki Sakakura, SPhotonix Inc., Switzerland

Multi-Dimensional Optical Storage in Glass for the Storage Crisis

Mindaugas Gedvilas, FTMC – Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania

Efficiency Aspects in Ultrashort Pulse Laser Ablation of Metals

Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Keio University, Japan

Laser Direct Writing of Functional Conductive Structures

Myong Yong Choi, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea

Laser-Driven Nonequilibrium Chemistry in Liquids for Catalytic Interface Engineering

Sumner B. Hariss, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Autonomous Synthesis and Human-AI Collaboration with Pulsed Laser Deposition

Tetsuo Sakka, Kyoto University, Japan

Full-Time-Range Multi-Wavelength Monitoring for Improving Underwater LIBS Performance

Yosuke Minowa, Kyoto University, Japan

Visualization and Manipulation of Quantum Vortex Enabled by Laser Ablation in Superfluid Helium