Speakers & Program

We are excited to host a panel of professionals known for their expertise within the Raman community. Each of the individuals listed below will give a talk at this year's Raman Imaging Symposium.

Sebastian Schlücker

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

As Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), his research interests include the design, synthesis and bioanalytical applications of SERS nanoparticle probes as well as the development and application of laser spectroscopic techniques in biophysical chemistry.

Thomas Dieing

WITec GmbH, Ulm, Germany

Dr. Thomas Dieing is the head of R&D in the Ulm site of Oxford Instruments. He obtained his PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia in 2005 investigating the MBE growth of nitrogen containing III/V semiconductors. In 2006 he joined WITec’s application team and became Director of Applications and Support. Following an extensive period as the product manager for WITec’s alpha300 product line and its accessories, he took over as head of R&D start of 2025 and is now responsible for all product development of the WITec product lines.

Linsen Li

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Prof. Linsen Li is a tenured associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015 and worked as a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015–2017. His research efforts are focused on materials chemistry and multimodal characterization techniques for battery materials and pharmaceuticals.

Edith Perret

Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Dr. Edith Perret works as a scientist at Empa in St. Gallen, Switzerland since 2018. Her research focuses on developing novel functional polymeric fibers for technical and medical applications. She will be the ad interim group leader of the Polymer Processing Group at Empa St. Gallen, starting January 1, 2026. She studied materials science at ETH Zurich (2001-2006) and did her doctoral studies in physics at the Paul Scherrer institute (2006-2010), Switzerland.

Keith Gordon

University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Prof. Keith Gordon received his BSc Hons (I) in 1986 and PhD in 1989 in chemistry from Queens University, Belfast, UK. He was a Director’s Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA, from 1989 – 1992. In 1993 he took up a lecturing post in the Chemistry Department at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, becoming Professor in 2009. His research interests focus on the understanding the properties of conducting polymers, nanostructured electromaterials, such as found in dye-sensitised solar cells, dairy products and pharmaceuticals using spectroscopy and computational chemistry.

Nathalie Jung

Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Nathalie Jung is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Adolphe Merkle Institute in Fribourg, Switzerland. She combines her background in human biology, pharmaceutical sciences, and Raman microscopy to investigate molecular changes in human cells and tissue models in the context of disease, nanotoxicology, and material-cell interactions.

Jean-Francois Bardeau

Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS, France

Prof. Jean-François Bardeau is Director of Research at CNRS and since March 2024, Director of the ICMN laboratory (UMR 7374, University of Orléans – CNRS). His research focuses on structural and dynamic properties of hybrid materials, biomaterials, and functional surfaces, with a recent emphasis on electromagnetic enhancement phenomena on multinanostructured metallic surfaces for SERS sensor development. Author of over 150 publications and 5 patents, he is also a member of the French Group of Vibrational Spectroscopies (GFSV) and has received several distinctions for his contributions.

Fabrizio Nestola

University of Padua, Italy

Fabrizio Nestola is Full Professor in Mineralogy at the Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy, and his research activity is mainly focused on the investigation of mineral inclusions in natural diamonds, meteorites and discovery of new mineral species mainly by micro-Raman spectroscopy, single-crystal X-ray and electron diffraction and scanning electron microscopy.

Sebastian Speer

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

Postdoc at the Institute of Energy Technologies: Fundamental Electrochemistry (IET-1) at Forschungszentrum Jülich. My research focusses on ex situ and in operando Raman analysis of materials used in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis.

Yuling Wang

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Prof Yuling Wang is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia. She completed her PhD at Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. She was then awarded Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship (2010-2012), German Research Foundation (DFG) individual grant (2012-2014), ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA, 2014-2017) and Future Fellowship (2022-2026). Her research focuses on platform technology that utilizes rationally designed plasmonic nanomaterials and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for biomarkers sensing, aiming to enhance in vitro diagnostics and personalized medicine.

Barbara Kosednar-Legenstein

Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH (MCL), Leoben, Austria

Barbara Kosednar-Legenstein is laboratory manager in the Department Microelectronics at the Materials Center Leoben (MCL). Among of a variety of analyses of various material applied in the field of microelectronics she uses Raman microscopy to solve questions which cannot be answered by other techniques.

Wolfgang Kiefer

University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Dr. Kiefer is Prof. Emeritus of the Physical Chemistry Institute at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is also Honorary Professor (Prof. h.c.) of the Universities of Beijing and Wuhan (both China) as well as Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) of the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Maximilian Göltz

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

With a background of nanotechnology (B.Sc.) and advanced materials and processes (M.Sc. hons.) Maximilian Göltz is research assistant in the group for ultra hard coatings at the Materials Science Department at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The focus of his research is the development of Boron-doped diamond electrodes for electrochemical applications.
Co-author: Thomas Helmreich is research assistant in the group for ultra hard coatings at the Materials Science Department at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His scientific focus is the HFCVD diamond coating of ceramics, cemented carbide and especially steel, furthermore, the development of the required Ti- and Ta-based HWCVD interlayers.