PREIN Annual Research Symposium 11 Nov 2025 in Helsinki

The annual PREIN Research Symposium offers an excellent opportunity for academics from PREIN partner institutionsto 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: “Light-controlled biomolecules”
• 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):
• All WP sessions: Introduction and update on recent activities and Suggestions for new research directions for the next PREIN flagship proposal
• WP1: Meeting room Pitkäsilta, 3. floor:
  • Talks
    • Evgeniy Mamonov (Aalto University) “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”
    • Vladislav Shishkov (Aalto University) “Room-temperature control of light-matter Bose-Einstein Condensates”
• WP2: Meeting room Tokoinranta, 4. floor:
  • Talks
    • Yucai Lin (Aalto University) “Multidimensional Light Detection with Symmetry-engineered Heterojunctions” 
    • Fida Ali (Aalto University) “Quantum Detectors for Ultra-Weak Light Sensing”
• WP3: Meeting room Merihaka, 5. floor:
  • Timo Aalto (VTT) “PIXEurope-pilot line”
  • Short presentation of research groups working in WP3 scope: Timo Aalto (VTT), Caterina Soldano (Aalto University), Antti Moilanen (University of Eastern Finland)
  • Summary and follow-up of WP3 session results from the PREIN symposium in 2024
• WP4: Meeting room Hakaniementori, 3. floor:
  • Talks
    • Tian-Long Guo (University of Eastern Finland) “From plasma-enhanced ALD to greyscale e-beam lithography: advanced nano fabrication approaches developed at UEF”
    • Krishnaiah Mokurala (Tampere University) “Perovskite-inspired materials for indoor photovoltaic applications”
    • Juha Toivonen (Tampere University) “Optical fiber-based differential absorption lidar for atmospheric CO2 sensing”
• WP5: Meeting room Viktor Julius von Wright, 3,5. floor:
  • Talks
    • 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”
• 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 (Tanpere University) “Time-to-space ghost imaging with photons entangled in space and time“
  • Jaana Vapaavuori (Aalto) “Material solutions towards nanostructured solution-processable perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells (STEIN)”
  • Anni Ranta-Lassila/VTT “A compact photonic system for sensing multiple biomolecules using a tunable laser and a SPR chip”
• (Time to put up the posters)
• 16:45 – 18:30 Poster session at Sirkus meeting room lobby
• 19:00 – 21:30 Dinner