Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Paul H.P. Urbach

Main expertise is electromagnetic modeling of problems of optics and diffraction optics in particular.
After obtaining a PhD from the University of Groningen under the supervision of prof. J.A. Sparenberg and prof. G.E.F. Thomas, he joined Philips Research where he became principle research scientist. In 2000 he became part-time professor Diffraction Optics in the Optics Group of Delft University of Technology and in 2008 he became the head of this group. His current research interest are in new methods to improve resolution and sensitivity in microscopic and nanoscopic optics using all properties of light, i.e. amplitude, phase, polarisation and wavelength.

Aurèle J.L. Adam

Aurèle Adam, graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec-Paris) in 2000. He joined the research team of Alain Kreisler at the Laboratoire de Genie Electrique de Paris (University Paris VI – CNRS) and the group microelectronic of Erik Kollberg in the Chalmers University of Technology (sweden) for a coupled Ph.D. thesis. The subject was Hot Electron Bolometers for Far Infrared detection using Low or High Temperature Superconductors. In 2003, after his graduation, he went to Netherlands to become a member of the European Research and Training Network INTERACTION in the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology.

In the past 3 years, his interest moves in the optics range, with an European Project OPERA in collaboration with Philips and others partners for developing the next generation of Light bulb based on LEDs. Lastly, he contributed to modern optical topics such as metamaterials, nano shells and optical antennas emission.

Zheng Xi

Member since 2020. He is working on light shaping using scattering surfaces

Alex Heemels (graduated 2025)

Member since September 2019. He is working on multi-source light shaping.

Thomas Kotte (graduated 2025)

Member since December 2019. He is working on anisotropic volume scattering.