ICPPP23 International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena
Bonito - MS - Brazil - 28Jun - 03Jul 2026
ICPPP23 International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena
Bonito - MS - Brazil - 28Jun - 03Jul 2026
Plenary
Andreas Mandelis
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto-Ontario - Canada.
Title: Three-dimensional super-resolution and super-contrast thermophotonic imaging with biomedical applications by spatiotemporal diffusion-reversal methods
Vitalyi Gusev
Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Mans, Le Mans - France.
Title: Monitoring of surface and surface skimming acoustic waves by lasers: on a path from GHz to THz frequencies
Bernhard Lendl
Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, TU Wien, Vienna - Austria.
Title: Towards understanding spatial resolution in nanoscale photothermal chemical Imaging
Alfredo Cruz-Orea
Departamento de Física, Mexico City - Mexico.
Title: Photoacoustic and Photopyroelectric techniques applied to studies in agriculture, foodstuffs and biomedicine
David Cahen
Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot - Israel.
Title: "Follow the heat” for Optimizing Energy Conversion: Photovoltaic as example
Daniel Razansky
Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Zürich - Switzerland.
Title: Listening to light and seeing sound in the brain
Vincenzo Spagnolo
PolySense Lab—Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Politecnico and University of Bari, Bari - Italy.
Title: Tuning fork based gas sensing and spectroscopy
Roberto Li Voti,
Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome - Italy.
Title: NDT by Photoacoustic and Photothermal Techniques: Recent Advances and Perspectives
Miguel Pleitez
Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research of the TUM, München – Germany.
Title: Looking and listening to Dancing Molecules for Biomedical Imaging and Non-invasive Biosensing: The clinical translation potential of mid-infrared optoacoustic and optothermal microspectroscopy
Ji-Xin Cheng
Boston University, Photonics Center, Boston-MA, Massachusetts - USA.
Title: Photothermal microscopy
Keith A Nelson
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge - USA.
Title: Photoacoustics at high wavevectors and high strains
Ariane Deniset-Besseau
AFM-IR lab Institut de Chimie Physique, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay - France.
Title: Photothermal Infrared Nanospectroscopy AFMIR in biosciences: overview, limitations and challenges
Alexander Oraevsky
TomoWave Laboratories, Houston, Texas and the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the University of Houston
Title: Functional Optoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging in preclinical research.
Keynote
Andrea Centrone
Nanoscale Spectroscopy Group, Physical Measurements Laboratory, National Institute of Standard and Technology, Gaithersburg - USA.
Title: Measuring thermal conductivity, interfacial thermal conductance, and chemical composition at the nanoscale with AFM probes
Mladen Franko
University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica – Slovenija.
Title: Thermal lens spectrometric detection for flow injection analysis in microfluidic systems
Robert Nuster
Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz - Austria.
Title: Structured Light and Matter in Photoacoustics and Laser Ultrasonic
Peter Burgholzer
Research Center for Non-Destructive Testing (RECENDT), Linz - Austria.
Title: Linking diffusive fields to virtual waves as their propagative duals
Ivan M. Pelivanov
Department of Bioengineering University of Washington, Washington - USA.
Title: Noncontact acoustic micro-tapping optical coherence elastorgaphy in skin
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato
Instituto de Física de São Carlos - USP, São Carlos-SP - Brazil.
Title: Sono-photodynamic: a new modality to treat massive melanoma
Zoltán Bozóki
Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics, University of Szeged, Szeged - Hungary.
Title: Photoacoustics for commercialisation and for research
Frank Cichos
Institute of Experimental Physics, Leipzig University, Leipzig - Germany.
Title: To be announced
Invited
Hai Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin – China.
Title: Super-Resolution Frequency Multiplexed Truncated-Correlation Tomography
Department of Bioengineering, George Mason University, Virginia - USA.
Title: ICG J-aggregates: small particles with a big bang
Christ Glorieux
Laboratory Acoustics and Thermal Physics - Dep. Physics and Astronomy, Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Leuven - Belgique.
Title: Photoacoustic and photothermal approaches for the thermal and mechanical relaxation properties of soft and biological soft matter
Liam O’Faolain
Cork Institute of Technology, Munster Technological University (MTU), Bishopstown, Cork - Ireland.
Title: Bringing photothermal spectroscopy on-Chip: concepts, progress, and application
Judith V Falkhofen
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Dept of Mechanical Engineering + Production, Heinrich Blasius Institute for Physical Technologies (HBI), Hamburg - Germany.
Title: Quartz-enhanced PAS on solid and liquid samples
Juan J. Alvarado-Gil
Cinvestav Unidad Merida, Merida - Mexico.
Title: Heat Transport in Inhomogeneous Materials
Dragan M. Todorovic
Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, Belgrade - Serbia.
Title: Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of the Photoacoustic Signal: From Generation in Silicon to Detection by a Microphone
José Ordonez-Miranda
French National Centre for Scientific Research, Institut des Nanosciences de Paris, Paris - France.
Title: Development of a Radiative Thermal Memristor
Division of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido - Japan.
Title: Time-resolved two-dimensional imaging of sub-GHz Lamb-like waves on topological phononic crystals
Yide Zhang
Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, TU Wien, Vienna - Austria.
Title: From Signal Generation to Depth Sensitivity in Photothermal AFM-IR: A Unified Green’s Function Framework
Carlos Serpa
Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Coimbra - Portugal
Title: Towards efficient photoacoustic transfection of plasmid DNA
Javier Rodríguez Aseguinolaza
Departamento de Física Aplicada, Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao, Bilbao - Spain.
Title: Thermographic quantification of flaws through physics-based and artificial intelligence models
Humberto Cabrera
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste - Italy.
Title: High-Sensitivity, affordable Photothermal method for Advanced Nanoparticle Characterization in Photothermal Cancer Therapy
Nelson Guilherme Castelli Astrath
Universidade Estadual de Maringá - UEM, Maringá-PR - Brazil.
Title: Decoupling bulk and surface radiation forces in dielectric media
Craig Prater
Photothermal Spectroscopy Corporation, Santa Barbara, California - USA.
Title: Photothermal Infrared and Stimulated Raman Microscopy/Spectroscopy
Arnold Giske
Photothermal Spectroscopy Corporation, Santa Barbara, California - USA.
Title: Photothermal detection of SRS – a new breakthrough Stimulated Raman technique for live cell imaging
Rene Allfonso Nome Silva
Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas-SP – Brazil.
Title: Ultrafast and stochastic dynamics studies of photothermal diffusion
Nima Tabatabaei
Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University, Toronto-Ontario - Canada.
Title: Photo-Thermal Rapid Assays for Sensitive and Affordable Mass Testing
Carlos Jacinto da Silva
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL, Alagoas-SE - Brazil.
Title: Thermal Relaxation Dynamics: A Diffusion-Wave Photothermal Contrast Mechanism Revealed by Luminescent Nanothermometers
Eno Hysi
University of Toronto, Toronto-Ontario - Canada.
Title: Optoacoustic imaging in Toronto: A journey in translation with quantitative ultrasound for the ride
Junior Reis Silva
Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul-UEMS, Dourados-MS - Brazil.
Title: Investigating Laser Cooling with Thermal Lens Spectroscopy
Gustavo Vinicius Bassi Lukasievicz
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - UTFPR, Medianeira-PR - Brazil.
Title: Induction and detection of pressure waves in liquids and thermoelastic responses in solids by pulsed photothermal methods
Tiago Magalhães
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory-INL, Braga - Portugal.
Title: Coherent acoustic phonons generated by ultrafast lasers: principles and applications in the characterisation of nanoscale materials and structures
Boris Majaron
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana - Slovenia.
Title: Photothermal tomographic imaging of subsurface structures in optically scattering biological tissues
Angelo Sampaolo
Polysense Lab, Physics Department of Polytechnic of Bari - Italy.
Title: Development of a novel GC-QEPAS sensing system for Volatile Organic Compounds detection
Julien Rojas
Institut de Chimie Physique, Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS, Orsay - France.
Title: Frequency-sweep force volume: towards mechanical artifact free AFM-IR
Maria Jose Valenzuela Bell
Departamento de Física da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora-MG – Brazil.
Title: Applications of photothermal techniques in food quality, safety and authenticity
Tomaz Catunda
Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, São Carlos-SP – Brazil.
Title: Fluorescence quantum efficiency of
nanomaterials determined by Thermal Lens
Renato Evangelista de Araujo
Department of Electronic and System, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Title: Plasmonic Nanoheaters: How Size Drives Theranostic Agent Performance
Constantinos Christofides
Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia - Cyprus
Title: A journey from scientific curiosity to real-world energy solutions and societal impact