Speaker

Institution

Title

Setsuhisa Tanabe

Kyoto University

Mixed-anion glass ceramics for photonic applications

Winner of the 2024 Otto Schott Research Award prize

Yasutake Ohishi

Toyota Technological Institute

A Journey from Soft Glasses to Photonic Devices

Speaker

Institution

Title

Anoop Krishnan*

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Combining Machine Learning, Simulations, and Experiments for Improved Glass Design

*Winner of the SGT-Sir Alastair Pilkington Award

Gabrielle Gaustad*

Alfred University

Sustainability opportunities for end-of-life glass in the US

*4th NL Varshneya Memorial Lecture on Sustainability in Glass

Michael Ojovan

University of Sheffield

On the role of structural changes at the glass-liquid transition

Stephen Elliott*

University of Cambridge

What use is a really bad glass?

*Winner of the 2025 Darshana and Arun Varshneya Frontiers of Glass Science Award

Chris Holmes

University of Southampton

Novel flat fibre sensors for application in process control, evaluation and health monitoring of high value composite assets

Calum Ross

Heriot Watt University

Sculpting Glass with Light for Future Fibre Optics

Gin Jose

University of Leeds

Femtosecond laser induced plasma modification of silicate glass

Angela Seddon

University of Nottingham

Mid-infrared photonics, a new frontier in disease screening and diagnosis: using chalcogenide glass fibreoptics