Photonics enabled by Artificial intelligence, or vice versa?

Increased specialization, knowledge sharing in photonics, and more efficient implementation of photonics-based solutions in Norwegian industry can have a major impact on Norway's economic growth. NORCE Energy & Technology, in collaboration with SINTEF Digital, the University of Tromsø and Oslo Metropolitan University has received support from the Research Council's IKTPLUSS program for a dialogue project and active participation in strategic processes in the two most important European photonics forums, the European Photonics Industry Consortium EPIC and the European technology platform Photonics21.

One of the sub-goals in this dialogue project is the profiling of Norwegian photonics competence and the opportunities that can open up if we succeed in strategic and targeted competence building within this field. Photonics is, in addition to artificial intelligence, one of the selected enabling technologies that are particularly relevant for digitization.

We invite everyone interested to hear more about photonics-based solutions in Norwegian industry in health, energy and process industry sectors. The format of the event reminds Tekna X, or Pecha Kucha where each speaker has around 10-12 minutes for the presentation.

Among the speakers: Prof Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia(UiT), Katarina Grujic (NORCE Technology), Peyman Mirtaheri(OsloMet), Prof. Anne Gerd Imenes (UiA), Marion O’Farrell (SINTEF Digital), Jana Jagerska(UiT).

Detailed program and information about speakers can be found in the tabs below the date.

Note that this event is in English. After all presentations we organize a question round, and you will be able to ask questions to the speakers.

The webcast is free and open to anyone interested.

Møtet arrangeres av fagnettverket Tekna Big Data, Tekna Forskerne, Tekna Klima og Tekna Helse og Teknologi. Det er gratis og uforpliktende for deg som er Tekna-medlem å bli med i våre faglige nettverk.

• Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia

  UiT - Institutt for fysikk og teknologi

  The professor is working at the Department of Physics & Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Ahluwalia is also affiliated as visiting scientist at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Previously, Ahluwalia has been a visiting scientist at the Centre of Biophotonics of Science and Technology, University of California Davis (2012) and the Opto-electronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton (2008, 2019). Ahluwalia leads Optical Nanoscopy Research Group, which is driven by curiosity to image the nanoscale biological systems, by pushing the frontiers in advanced microscopy and translating its impact on biological and clinical applications. Ahluwalia is the inventor of chip-based optical nanoscopy, holds several patents in this field, and is co-founder of Chip NanoImaging AS. As a recognition of his contribution to the field of optics and advanced microscopy, Ahluwalia was awarded the 2018 Tycho Jæger Prize in Electro-optics and the 2018 University’s Research & Development Award.

• Katarina Grujic

  Seniorforsker

  Norce Norwegian Research Centre AS avd Kristiansand Universitetsveien

  Katarina Grujic has more than ten years of experience researching photonics-based imaging and inspection technologies for applications in harsh, visually degraded, and/or high-temperature environments. Current research interests are related to multi-analyte, pervasive, Artificial Intelligence supported photonic biosensors for integration in mobile platforms. This means monitoring of environmental parameters and point-of-care diagnostics, monitoring and treatment assessment of major diseases, and development of XR applications in health and medicine.

• Anne Gerd Imenes

  Professor

  UiA

  Anne Gerd majored in Environmental Physics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and holds a PhD degree in Applied Physics from the University of Sydney. The topic of her Master thesis was flat-plate solar collectors for domestic hot water and floor heating systems, in collaboration with the Energy Physics group at the University of Oslo. The topic of her PhD degree was concentrating solar energy systems and the design and optimization of optical filters for spectral beam splitting. After graduation, Anne Gerd worked as a Post Doc at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Newcastle, Australia. Here, she participated in the commissioning and testing of a solar tower system consisting of a field of focusing mirrors and a solar-powered gas reactor. She worked for a while as a Research Scientist at the CSIRO, before returning to Norway as a senior researcher in renewable energy at the technical-industrial research institute Teknova. Following this, she started working as associate professor at the University of Agder in a part-time position. She is now employed as a full-time professor at the Institute of Engineering Sciences, where she mainly works with teaching and research topics related to solar cell technology.

• Jana Jagerska

  førsteamanuensis

  UiT - Institutt for fysikk og teknologi

  Researcher and group leader in the field of nanophotonics and laser spectroscopy; focus on mid-infrared on-chip sensors for trace gas detection.

  Principal Investigator: ERC Starting Grant, RCN's FRINATEK Young Research Talents, TFS Starting Grant

  Teaching: Photonics (Spring 2018), Optical Sensing (2019)

• Peyman Mirtaheri

  Professor

  OsloMet - Storbyuniversitetet

  Peyman has a long experience in bio-electronics with a focus on sensory and measurements methods both at the cellular and tissue level. His specialty is in sensory scheme, materials, calibration methods used in biomedical applications. He is teaching medical instrumentation for biomedical engineering students at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). In addition, he is a leader of the optical/NIRS lab at the faculty of Technology, Art and Design (TKD) at OsloMet since 2009.

• Marion Elaine O´Farrell

  Research Manager

  SINTEF Avd Forskningsveien Oslo

  Dr. Marion O’Farrell works at SINTEF, a research institute in Norway. She is a research manager in the Smart Sensor Systems department in SINTEF. For almost 20 years, Marion has worked with the development of optical measurement systems for industrial applications, with a specific focus on inline food applications. She has published over 50 articles and has two patents related to the measurement of food: “Food Monitoring System” (IE20040383) and «Measurement of properties of organic material» (201580021396). She has contributed to the development of Tomra’s inline NIR spectral imaging system QVision. Marion’s research is focused on measurement system design using a multi-disciplinary approach that is based on first principles. She believes that high-quality physical data, from robust sensors, can unlock the true potential for digitalization in industry.