First invited speaker confirmed for our conference! Dr. Giovanni Volpe

Giovanni Volpe earned his PhD in 2008 from ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences (Barcelona, Spain) for his work on optical trapping done in the group of late Prof. Dmitri Petrov. Later, as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Clemens Bechinger at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Stuttgart, Germany), Dr Volpe shifted his research focus towards soft matter, obtaining far-reaching results in the development of a new class of light-activated artificial microswimmers and in the study of Brownian motion in diffusion gradients. From 2012 till 2016, Dr Volpe was Assistant Professor at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey). From 2016, Dr Volpe is Associate Professor in the Physics Department of the University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden), where he leads an 8-person-strong research group with an externally-funded, ambitious and interdisciplinary research program that combines soft condensed matter, nanotechnology and photonics.