PREIN Annual Research Symposium 11 Nov 2025 in Helsinki

The annual PREIN Research Symposium offers an excellent opportunity for industry representatives, academics from other institutions, and anyone interested in recent PREIN research achievements to learn about PREIN activities.

Venue: Paasitorni, Paasivuorenkatu 5A, Helsinki

Meeting room: Sirkus (ground floor, 0.)
Guarded cloak room by the main doors.

Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Registration is closed. For any changes in your registration, please contact Kristiina Pispala

Program:

• 08:00 – 10:00 Morning buffet at Sirkus meeting room lobby
• 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome and PREIN Flagship update, Prof. Goëry Genty 
• 10:30 – 11:15 Academic key note speaker Prof. Vesa Hytönen, Tampere University
• 11:15 – 12:00 Industry key note speaker, Bernard Kress, Google
• 12:00 – 13:00 Buffet lunch at the restaurant
• 13:00 – 15:00 WP sessions (in break-out rooms):
  • WP1: Meeting room Pitkäsilta, 3. floor:
    • Introduction and update on recent activities
    • Talks
      • E. Mamonov, “Photonic systems for flat-band lasing and Bose-Einstein condensation” and R. Kolkowski, “Resonant nanostructures based on AlInP – a low-loss material platform for nonlinear nanophotonics”
      • V. Shishkov, “Room-temperature control of light-matter Bose-Einstein Condensates” (15 min)
    • New research directions for the next flagship proposal, discussion
  • WP2: Meeting room Tokoinranta, 4. floor:
    • Introduction and update on recent activities
    • Talks
      • Yucai Lin, “Multidimensional Light Detection with Symmetry-engineered Heterojunctions” 
      • Fida Ali, “Quantum Detectors for Ultra-Weak Light Sensing”
    • New research directions for the next flagship proposal, discussion
  • WP3: Meeting room Merihaka, 5. floor:
  • WP4: Meeting room Hakaniementori, 3. floor:
    • Introduction and update on recent activities
    • Talks
      • Tian-Long Guo: “From plasma-enhanced ALD to greyscale e-beam lithography: advanced nano fabrication approaches developed at UEF”
      • Krishnaiah Mokurala: “Perovskite-inspired materials for indoor photovoltaic applications”
      • Juha Toivonen: “Optical fiber-based differential absorption lidar for atmospheric CO2 sensing”
    • New research directions for the next flagship proposal, discussion
  • WP5: Meeting room Viktor Julius von Wright, 3,5. floor:
    • I. Short talks (5 min each)
      • Niladri Modak (Tampere University) – “Entangling Spectral Vector Photons”
      • Abhiroop Chellu (Tampere University) – “ Telecom wavelength quantum dot emitters”
      • Najirul Islam (University of Eastern Finland) – “Quantum polarization fluctuations of two weakly driven two-level atoms”
      • Nikita Solonovich (University of Eastern Finland) – “Two-colour temporal ghost imaging with ultra broadband parametric down conversion”
      • Lea Kopf (VTT)– “ SNSPDs for quantum technologies”
      • Tuomas Vaimala (VTT) – “Thermophotonic devices: from room temperature to cryogenics”
      • Patrick Illetschek (Aalto University) – “Dark trapping of large-mass, high-density particles in vacuum”
      • Yufeng Zhang (Aalto University) – “Quantum simulation with high-order optical tensor processing”
    • II. Free discussion (Open floor for questions, comments and networking)
    • III. Suggestions for new directions/ research topics for future PREIN application (30 min)
• 15:00 – 15:30 Afternoon coffee at Sirkus meeting room lobby
• 15:30 – 16:30 Session for PREIN internal projects (max. 20 min each)
  • Jaime Moreno Zuleta/ TAU Time-to-space ghost imaging with photons entangled in space and time (involved Robert Fickler/TAU, Polina Kuzhir/UEF, Andriy Shevchenko/Aalto)
  • Jaana Vapaavuori/ Aalto Material solutions towards nanostructured solution-processable perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells (STEIN) (involved Ville Vähänissi/ Aalto, Paola Vivo/TAU, Mari Ylikunnari and Thomas Kraft/VTT)
  • Anni Ranta-Lassila/VTT A compact photonic system for sensing multiple biomolecules using a tunable laser and a SPR chip (the post-doc in this project) (TAU/ Mircea Guina, UEF/ Matthieu Roussey, VTT/ Alexey Popov)
• (Time to put up the posters)
• 16:45 – 18:30 Poster session at Sirkus meeting room lobby
• 19:00 – 21:30 Dinner