Endoscopes, catheters, forceps and many other medical devices can be enhanced by the integration of optical sensing fiber. On the range from diagnostics to even tissue ablation tools can benefit from sensing systems. At this meeting, we will learn from clinicians and medical doctors what are the current demands to improve the standard of care, while the photonics value chain will present and discuss their current solutions and new developments.
11 April 2022
/ 15:00
- 17:00
EPIC Online Technology Meeting on Medical Fiber Sensing
Online Event
Spirit of the meetings
Speakers
Alexis Méndez is president of MCH Engineering LLC - a firm specializing in optical fiber sensing technology. Dr. Méndez was the former Group Leader of the Fiber Optic Sensors Lab within ABB Corporate Research (USA). He has accumulated over 25 years of experience in optical fiber technology, sensors and photonics. He has written 70 technical publications, published 2 textbooks, holds 5 US patents and is recipient of an R&D-100 award. Dr. Méndez is a Fellow of SPIE, and received a PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University in 1992.
President
at MCH Engineering
Éric Pinet graduated as Engineer in Physics and Chemistry from ESPCI ParisTech. He obtained his PhD in Molecular Biophysics from Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris and moved to Canada where he worked 3 years developing synthetic hydrogels for spinal cord repair at Organogel Canada. He then became a Post-Doctoral fellow in Chemical Engineering department at Laval University in Québec before joining FISO Technologies, where he worked on optical fiber sensors for more than 20 years now. He is presently Principal Research Scientist, specialized in Medical Integration.
Principal Research Scientist
at FISO/Resonetics
Mauro Sette gained a MSc in Biomedical engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy), a PhD in Mechanics with a thesis in Robotic Assisted Surgery at the K.U.Leuven in Belgium, since the 2013 he is the CEO of Medyria.
CEO
at Medyria
Bram Van Hoe is Director Sales & Marketing at FBGS, a Belgium / Germany based company developing and commercializing fiber optic sensors, measurement systems and complete solutions. FBGS offers a unique combination of In-house expertise and high-volume production capacity, both on fiber and fiber Bragg grating manufacturing as well as on interrogator hardware technology.
Bram Van Hoe graduated with a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Ghent University (Belgium) in 2008 and obtained his PhD degree from the Centre for Microsystems Technology (CMST), an IMEC associated research lab at Ghent University, in 2013 with a dissertation entitled “Photonic Skin Based on Polymer Embedding of Optical Sensors and Interrogation Units”. He is (co-)author of over 40 publications and co-inventor of 3 patents.
Director Sales & Marketing
at FBGS
Stefano is working on medical robotics and on surgery digitization at Asensus Surgical. He is an engineer by education, a passionate inventor by heart, and after spending a life in R&D, he moved his attention to Marketing and to surgical innovation for the benefit of the patient.
Director Surgical Innovation
at Asensus
Remco studied applied physics at the University of Twente in The Netherlands and obtained his MSc in 2005. He started his industrial career at ASML in Veldhoven within the Sources and Dose control development group as a lead engineer. In 2009 he moved to TNO Industrial Innovation as an optical research scientist within the field of photonic sensing (fiber optics and integrated optics). Most of his work focused on fiber optics for sensing applications and he started leading the group Fiber Optic Sensor Systems within the Optics department in 2012. At the end of 2014, due to the development of a commercial Fiber Bragg manufacturing tool which was initiated by Remco a few years earlier, he moved to the Hittech group, located in The Hague to pursuit further development and commercialization of the NORIA Fiber Bragg Grating manufacturing tool (currently a product of EPIC member NorthLab photonics). Remco established and led the optics group within Hittech starting November 2014 till December 2017, after which he co-founded Somni Corporation B.V., a startup company focused on the development and manufacturing of Fiber Bragg Grating based sensors.
CEO
at Somni Solutions
Attendees
- Alain Villeneuve , President at Consultants Optav
- Alberto Micco , CTO at Often Medical
- Alessandro Signorini , Chief Executive Officer at Infibra Technologies
- Alexis Paul Tzannis , Key Account Manager at NILT
- Alistair Kean , Managing Director at NikaWorks
- Ana Pinto , R&D Researcher at AIMEN
- Andrej Mosat , CEO at myspectral
- Andrejs Griscenko , Head of R&D at CeramOptec
- Antonio Lobo , Full Professor at University Fernando Pessoa
- Arezoo Ghannadian , Account Manager at VIAVI Solutions
- Arunas Dauksa , Head of Sales at Femtika
- Atėnė Valiulytė , Sales Engineer at UAB Altechna
- Axel Bertholds , CEO at SENSOPTIC
- Behdad Dasht Bozorg , Senior Researcher at Netherlands Cancer Institute
- Bétina Bebey , Business Development Manager at Infineon Technologies
- Bram Van Hoe , Director Sales and Marketing at FBGS
- Cátia Leitão , Junior Researcher at Universidade de Aveiro
- Chris Randon , Engineer at OpTek Systems
- Clément Strutynski , Research Engineer at CNRS Laboratoire
- Constantin Lemarquis , Product Manager at Radiall
- Cristina Barbosa , International Product Manager at HBK FiberSensing
- Dan Spring , Sales Engineer at Eblana Photonics
- David Potter , Director of Product Management at Luna Innovations
- David Wender , CTO at Sensor 21 PG
- Denis Donlagic , Professor at University of Maribor
- Detlef Krabe , Executive Partner at LETKrabe Consulting
- Dinesh babu Duraibabu , Researcher at University of Limerick
- Dominic Brady , Managing Director at Fibercore
- Éric Pinet , Principal Scientist / Medical Integration Specialist at FISO Technologies / Resonetics
- Erik Böttcher , CEO at NYFORS
- Etienne Friedrich, Products & Projects Manager at Solifos
- Frank Ernst , Business Development Manager at NTS Optel
- Geoffrey Duggan , Senior Product Sales Manager at Ansys Lumerical
- Gerwin Puppels , Managing Director at RiverD
- Guido Giuliani , CEO/CTO at Julight
- Hugues Tariel , CEO at Diafir
- Hui Yang , Chief Technologist at Arden Photonics
- Huifang Luo , Sales Manager at CDA
- İbrahim Ölçer , General Manager at INSIGMA Engineering
- Ireneu Dias , Center Coordinator at INESC TEC
- Ismael Chiamenti, Doctor at UTFPR
- Jad Sabek , Researcher at IMB-CNM
- Jan Krizek , Researcher at EPFL
- Jan-Laurens van der Steen , Business Development Manager at PITC - Photonic Integration Technology Center
- Jeroen Gruben , CEO at HighTechXL
- Joel Villatoro , Professor at UPV/EHU
- John Hayes , Researcher in Residence at Integer Holdings Corporation
- Josue Parra , R&D Engineer at ficonTEC
- Julian Sassmann , Sales & Marketing at Laser 2000
- Ken Reynolds , Business and Technology Manager at prophotonix
- Lars Lindvold , Senior Scientist at DTU
- Marc Bax , Managing Director at Panchromos
- Marc Faucheux , President at Laser & Medical Devices Consulting
- Maria Domingues, Researcher at IT
- Mariana Pacheco Blanco , Programme Project Manager at AMIRES
- Martina De Landro , Researcher at Politecnico di Milano
- Mario Grüneberg, Project Staff at Silicon Austria Labs
- Maxim Kuschnerov , Director of R&D at Huawei
- Maxim Mamin , Head of Business Development at IMT
- Mercedes Marin , Scientific Communications Specialist at UV Medico
- Michiel Oderwald , Senior Business Developer at TNO
- Michael O'Gorman , New Product Introductions Manager at Firecomms
- Miguel Llera , Senior Scientist at HE-Arc
- Nadia Boetti , Senior Researcher at LINKS Foundation
- Nagarajan Subramaniyam , CTO at Xfold Imaging
- Paola Saccomandi , Professor at Politecnico di Milano
- Paolo Tagliabue , Managing Director at Optical Sensing Technologies
- Patrick Heissler , Director Business Development at SUSS MicroOptics
- Patrick Ward-Booth , Clinical Lead at IQ Endoscopes
- Paul Kirkby , Post Doctoral Research fellow at University College London
- Peter Lowy , Sales Manager at Sylex
- Renju K.O , OFC Engineer at OPTINET
- Robert Brunner, COO at Help-Doctor
- Robert Edwards , Director, Product Management at Matrixx
- Roger Krähenbühl , R&D Project Manager at CSEM
- Rolando Ferrini , Head of Photonics at FEMTOprint
- Saeed Rehman , EVP at Wires&Bytes
- Samir Lamrini , R&D Manager at LISA Laser
- Scott Barrie , Business Development Manager at Sivers Photonics
- Sebastien Degaugue , Sales Engineer at DIMIONE SYSTEMS
- Sambhav Anand , Market Development Manager at Coherent
- Selwan Ibrahim , R&D Manager at Optics11
- Shawn Moran , Director Of Sales at LEONI
- Soren Helmer Rasmussen , Sales Director at Delta Optical Thin Film
- Stefano Prandoni , Sales Director at Bandwidth10
- Stéphane Perrin , Project Manager at Photonics Bretagne
- Susann Spindler , Project and Network Manager at EurA
- Susmita Sridhar , Photonics Markets Analyst at Tematys
- Thomas Johansson , Optical Engineer at Sigma Connectivity
- Thomas Mowery, CMO at Westface Medical
- Thomas van Els , Sales Manager at Photonfirst
- Timothy Clark, Sales Consultant at LIGHTEL TECHNOLOGIES
- Tonino Grimaudo , Chief Executive at NEXTMED
- Torsten Fischer , Field Representative at LWL-Sachsenkabel
- Udo Fetzer , Key Account Manger at OFS
- Uwe Linss , Director of Sales at FOCUZ Manufacturing
- Valerie Lyttle , Marketing Executive at Yelo
- Viacheslav Artyushenko , President at art photonics
- Wilfried Noell , Director R&D at SUSS MicroOptics
- Willem-Jan De Wijs , Senior Architect at Philips
- Wladick Hartmann , CTO at Pixel Photonics
- Zakarya Zriouil , Industrial Sales Manager at LightGuideOptics
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Jeremy Picot-Clemente, PhD
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