Through interdisciplinary dialogue among physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and engineers, this symposium aims contributing to low-cost, energy-efficient, and sustainable optoelectronic solutions for a broad spectrum of future photonic technologies based on metal halide perovskites. Building on prior successes, it will provide a comprehensive examination of recent developments and emerging trends in perovskite photonics and emphasize novel approaches in material synthesis, dimensionality engineering, and device architecture that have unlocked unprecedented functionalities and improved stability and efficiency.
A particular emphasis will be placed on the latest advances in lead-free and environmentally sustainable perovskite alternatives for greener optoelectronics. Cutting-edge research on perovskite heterostructures, composite systems, hybrid integration with 2D materials, innovative strategies for defect management and interface engineering, methodologies for enhanced performance and operational stability of perovskite-based devices will be explored.
The symposium will feature discussions on emerging characterization techniques: operando spectroscopy, advanced microscopy, ultrafast spectroscopy, and machine-learning-assisted predictive modeling, offering deep insights into charge-carrier dynamics, exciton-polariton phenomena, photophysical processes, extending into next-generation applications including quantum photonics, neuromorphic photonics, advanced communication technologies, emphasizing perovskites’ role in transformative photonic solutions.
- Novel synthesis methods and dimensionality engineering in metal halide perovskites
- Lead-free and environmentally friendly perovskite materials
- Advanced perovskite heterostructures and composite systems
- Visible and infrared perovskite LEDs: Toward ultra-high efficiency and stability
- High-performance photodetectors and phototransistors, including flexible and wearable platforms
- Advanced X-ray and gamma-ray photodetectors
- Perovskite-based integrated photonics: waveguides, metasurfaces, modulators, and lasers
- Quantum photonics and exciton-polariton dynamics in perovskites
- Machine learning and computational modeling for perovskite photonics
- Stability enhancement strategies and encapsulation techniques for long-term device operation
Juan P. Martínez-Pastor, Full Prof. at the University of Valencia. PhD in Physics, 1990. Three years of postdoctoral experience at the European Laboratory of Non-Linear Spectroscopy (Florence, Italy) and at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France). Prof. Martínez-Pastor is expert in Semiconductor Physics, particularly optical properties and exciton recombination dynamics in quantum wells, wires and dots based on III-V semiconductors and other compounds since 1990. This research line continues nowadays focused on quantum light produced by quantum dot semiconductors and its management for quantum communications. After 2006 he has leaded/co-leaded several research lines in nanoscience and nanotechnology regarding the development of several types of nanomaterials (metal and quantum dots, multi-functional nanocomposites) and applications to photonics and plasmonics. In the last three years, he focuses his research in optical properties, exciton recombination dynamics and applications in photonics of two-dimensional semiconductors and metal halide perovskites. He has supervised 16 PhD theses and is author/co-author of 220 peer-reviewed publications, other than seven patents and promotor of a spin-off company.
Dr. Daniele Catone obtained his Degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He has been a permanent researcher since 2009, after several years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Istituto di Struttura della Materia (ISM-CNR). His research focuses on the study of ultrafast dynamics in plasmonic materials, semiconductors, and photovoltaic systems, using femtosecond pump-probe transient spectroscopy. In the past, his research has primarily focused on the study of molecules and clusters in the gas phase using laser and synchrotron radiation, acquiring extensive expertise in photoelectron and photoionization spectroscopies. Since 2005, he has served as beamline scientist at the CiPo beamline at the Elettra synchrotron, where he expanded his research into surface physics by photoelectron spectroscopy. Since 2015, he has been part of the team coordinating the scientific activities of the EuroFEL Support Laboratory (EFSL), an open infrastructure aimed at supporting research in time-resolved spectroscopies and FELs. He has been involved in cutting-edge research projects at both national and international levels, taking leadership roles in the study and development of new materials for photovoltaics, photocatalysis, and optoelectronics.
Zhuoying Chen is a CNRS researcher (Chargé de recherche) working in the Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des Matériaux (LPEM, CNRS-UMR 8213) at ESPCI Paris, a unit of Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) University in France. She received her Ph.D at Columbia University in the city of New York. After being a postdoc researcher in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, she joined CNRS in 2010. Her main research field is on optoelectronic devices (e.g. solar cells and photodetectors) based on colloidal and organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials synthesized from bottom-up approaches.
Dr. Géraud DELPORT is a physicist specializing in the optical properties of emerging lead-free perovskite materials. His research focuses on understanding excitonic behavior and electron–phonon coupling in low-dimensional and mixed-valence perovskites, with a particular emphasis on gold-based halide double perovskites. By combining advanced optical spectroscopies—steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence, absorption, Raman, and photothermal techniques—with cryogenic environments, he investigates fundamental processes such as exciton localization, polaron formation, defect dynamics, and phonon-assisted intragap absorption. His work aims to elucidate the microscopic mechanisms governing energy transport and non-radiative recombination in lead-free perovskites, with the broader goal of enabling their integration into next-generation optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices.
Eric Gros-Daillon joined CEA-Leti in 2006 as a research engineer after a Master degree in detection physics and a Ph.D. on gamma-ray semiconducting detectors for SPECT. His research covered a large range of detectors technologies such as semiconductor detectors working in spectrometric and counting mode (CdTe and GaAs) and scintillator detectors (LYSO and CsI). He also worked on the CMOS readout circuits which are coupled to these detectors. He has supervised 14 PhD and post-doctorant students and is the author of 24 scientific papers and holds 10 patents. Two detectors developed by Dr Gros-Daillon have been successfully transferred to the industry. His present scientific focus is on perovskite detectors for X-ray medical radiography and he is the coordinator of the European project Peroxis.
Dr. Junaid Khan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona and a recipient of the Juan de la Cierva Fellowship. He earned his PhD and Master’s degrees in Materials Engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research focuses on printed electronics, functional nanomaterials, and optoelectronic devices, including inkjet-printed perovskite LEDs, photodetectors, graphene-based conductive inks, and flexible sensing systems. He has developed eco-friendly functional inks, wearable gas sensors, and fully printed photonic devices, advancing sustainable and scalable approaches for next-generation flexible and printed electronics. His work has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications, multiple awards for scientific excellence, including the Best PhD Candidate Award (IKM Awards 2023), and the Sanggar Sanjung Hall of Fame Award (2024).
Professor Adélio Mendes (born 1964) received his PhD degree from the University of Porto in 1993.
Full Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Coordinates a large research team with research interests mainly in dye sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells including water splitting and solar redox flow batteries, photocatalysis, redox flow batteries, electrochemical membrane reactors (PEMFC, H-SOFC, chemical synthesis), methanol steam reforming, membrane and adsorbent-based gas separations and carbon molecular sieve membranes synthesis and characterization.
Professor Mendes authored or co-authored more than 300 articles in peer-review international journals, filled 23 families of patents and is the author of a textbook; received an Advanced Research Grant from the ERC on dye-sensitized solar cells for building integrated of ca. 2 MEuros and since 2013 he is partner in 4 more EU projects and leads one EU project. Presently he is the leader of a FET Open project, GOTSolar, on perovskite solar cells. He received the Air Products Faculty Excellence 2011 Award (USA) for developments in gas separation and Solvay & Hovione Innovation Challenge 2011 prize, the Prize of Coimbra University of 2016, and the prize of Technology Innovation - 2017 by the University of Porto. Presently, he is the Coordinator of CEner-FEUP, the Competence Center for Energy of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto.
Agustín is experienced in the optical design, fabrication and characterization of large area photonic architectures that can be easily implemented in emerging optoelectronic devices to improve their performance. His group specializes in soft nanoimprinting lithography, which offers an inexpensive and simple pathway to exploit the optical properties of nanophotonic structures with unconventional materials and devices.
Hernán Míguez (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971) is Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in the Institute of Materials Science of Seville. He studied Physics in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and did his PhD in the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Toronto in the group of Prof. Ozin, he returned to Spain and joined the CSIC in 2004. He leads the group of Multifunctional Optical Materials, whose activities are devoted to the development, characterization and modeling of new photonic architectures for applications in different fields, among them solar energy conversion and light emission. He has received an ERC starting grant (2012, Consolidator Modality) and the “Real Sociedad Española de Física-Fundación BBVA 2017” Prize in the modality of “Physics, Innovation and Technology”.
In 2025, the applicant became a Lecturer Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, within the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Escuela de Ingeniería de Barcelona Este, as a Serra Húnter Fellow. Previously, he spent six years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat de Barcelona’s Department of Electronics Engineering.
With nearly 13 years of research experience, his expertise spans nanomaterials synthesis, ink formulation, electronic design, inkjet-printed device fabrication, and characterization of semiconducting and functional materials for optoelectronic and memory applications. His key contributions include advancements in flexible inkjet-printed metal oxides, 2D graphene materials, and perovskite-based optoelectronic devices (LEDs, solar cells, photodetectors), addressing challenges in sustainable flexible electronics.
The SH fellow has developed expertise in nanomaterials characterization, scalable inkjet-printed device fabrication, and independent project development, securing research funding. Notable collaborations include Saule Technology, Avantama AG, ETH Zürich, UJI, and Cambridge University. During a five-year postdoctoral fellowship, he co-supervised one PhD, two master’s theses, and three bachelor’s projects, demonstrating strong mentorship and communication skills. He has authored 19 papers (10 as first author), with an h-index of 12 and over 330 citations (Scopus), participated in 54+ conferences.