INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

69th Course

Progress in Photoacoustic & Photothermal Phenomena
Focus on BIOMEDICAL, NANOSCALE, NDE, A.I., GAS SENSING

and THERMOPYSICAL PHENOMENA and TECHNOLOGIES

 

 

ERICE - SICILY: NOVEMBER 5th - 12nd,  2025

 

DIRECTORS OF THE COURSE: R. LI VOTI – A. MANDELIS

DIRECTORS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: A.N. CHESTER – D. WIERSMA

EMFCSC PRESIDENT: A. ZICHICHI

 

 INVITED LECTURERS  of  the WORKSHOP
&

INVITED TUTORS of the INTERNATIONAL AUTUMN  SCHOOL

                                                                 
                                                                                                  Information about the majority of the invited lecturers will be announced here

 

Session A : Biomedical and Biological PA & PT 



Parag Chitnis -
George Mason University – Virginia – USA

Novel ICG-based near-infrared photoacoustic contrast agents

 


(remote)
Fei Gao - ShanghaiTech University – China

to be announced



Daniel Razansky - ETH Zürich - Switzerland

Optoacoustics goes multimodal - methods and systems


Chao Tian - University of Science and Technology of China – Hefei - China

Multiparametric photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging in rodents and humans



Perry Xiao -
London South Bank University - UK

Photothermal Radiometry Skin Data Analysis by Using Machine Learning



Session B : Nanoscale Heat & Acoustic Transport, Metamaterials and Imaging



Francesco Banfi -
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - France

Photoacoustic Insights into Individual High-Aspect-Ratio Semiconducting Nanoresonators


                                                                                                 


Giorgia Fugallo - École Normale Supérieure  (ENS ) / Université Paris Science et Lettres (PSL)

Phonon-heat transport: from 3D to 2D materials





Emilija Petronijevic
- Sapienza Università di Roma – Italy

Widely tunable laser photo-acoustic spectroscopy for characterization of absorption and chirality in nanomaterials





Ilaria Zardo
- University of Basel – Switzerland
Phonon dynamics and thermal transport in designed nanostructures



Session C : Non Destructive Evaluation & Testing


Matt Clark
- University of Nottingham - UK

Laser inspection of microstructure and defects using SRAS and ALIPA



Tomas Grabec
- Czech Academy of Sciences - Czechia

Laser-ultrasonic characterization of elastically anisotropic materials



Javier Rodriguez-Asaguinolaza
- University of the Basque Country – Bilbao - Spain

A comprehensive multimodal approach to thermographic quantitative characterization of flaws: from physics-based models to data driven IA techniques



Jérémie Maire
- University of Bordeaux - France

Using thermography to obtain volumetric thermal properties and temperature fields



Session D: Thermophysical and Diffusion-Wave Properties


Mauro Luciano Baesso
- State University of Maringá - Maringá – Brazil

QCL-Induced Temperature Rise and Heat Accumulation in Photothermal Microscopy

 

Stefano Paoloni – Università di Roma Tor Vergata – Rome - Italy

Time resolved calorimetric and optical absorption measurements

for the investigation of the nematic orientation kinetics in phototropic liquid crystals

 

Carlos Serpa - University of Coimbra – Coimbra - Portugal

Properties of Materials as Drivers for Efficient High-Frequency Laser Ultrasound Generation and Applications

 

Daniele Vella – Univesity of Ljubljana– Ljubljana - Slovenia

Photoacoustic Transmission Technologies:

Tailoring Ultrasound via Material Design, Pulse Width, and Light Shaping


Session E: AI, Deep Learning, Neral Networks and Machine Learning



Stefano Sfarra
- University of L'Aquila - L'Aquila - Italy

Learning & Physical Thermographic Models for the Evaluation of Thermophysical Properties in Materials-Structures and the Optimal Image Processing

 

Hong Tang - Harbin Institute of Technology - China

Learning the Solution Operator of Thermal Wave Diffusion with Neural Operators

 

 

Chao Tian - University of Science and Technology of China – Hefei - China

Physics-driven deep learning photoacoustic tomography

 


Hai Zhang
- Harbin Institute of Technology - China

Deep learning-assisted super-resolution frequency multiplexed truncated-correlation tomography

 

(remote) Ghali Venkata Subbarao - Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation - India

to be announced

International Autumn School
Invited Tutorials



Andreas Mandelis
- Toronto University - Canada

Carrier Lifetime Chrono-Tomography: Optoelectronic Diffusion-Wave Case Studies

of Silicon Wafers and Photovoltaic Solar Cells




Emilija Petronijevic
- Sapienza Università di Roma – Italy

Absorption distribution at the nanoscale: simulations by finite-difference-time domain method





Mladen Franko
– Univesity of Nova Gorica – Slovenia

Thermal Lens Spectrometry and Detection of Gases




Grisa Močnik -
University of Nova Gorica – Slovenia

Measuring aerosol absorption with photo-thermal interferometry - how to get an artifact-free climate- and health-relevant metric





Christ Glorieux
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium

Optical methods for detection of transient and periodic photoacoustic/photothermal signals





Roberto Li Voti
- Sapienza Università di Roma – Italy
Photothermal deflection technique
: History, Principles and applications





J.Ordonez-Miranda
– CNRS – France
Energy harvesting from the thermal waves generated by the temperature fluctuations of the environment