Speakers

Michael Schmitt, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. His research focuses on linear and non-linear Raman and nonlinear multimodal biophotonic imaging for biomedical diagnostics. He specializes in translating advanced vibrational imaging methods into clinically relevant applications.

Peter Gardner is a Professor of Analytical and Biomedical Spectroscopy at the University of Manchester. He obtained his PhD in 1988 followed by post-doctoral positions in Berlin and Cambridge. Currently he is using QCL imaging coupled with AI to analyse tissue samples to help pathologists better diagnose cancer. He is president of the international society for clinical spectroscopy CLIRSPEC.

Axel Mosig is a Professor for Bioinformatics at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where he is also heading the Bioinformatics Department of the Research Center for Protein Diagnostics (PRODI). His research at PRODI is focused on machine learning and artificial intelligence for analyzing and understanding patterns of disease in infrared microscopic images as well as other imaging modalities.

Ariane Deniset-Besseau, Im' an associate Professor at the Institut de Chimie Physique, Université Paris-Saclay. Originally, my field of expertise is photothermal infrared nanospectroscopy (AFM-IR). Recently, I have specialized in methodological approaches for multimodal chemical imaging of biological and complex materials.

Howbeer is a microbiologist specialising in microbial metabolomics. He completed his PhD at the University of Manchester and now leads a research group at the University of Liverpool, focusing on using molecular imaging and metabolomics to investigate antimicrobial resistance in single cells and biofilms.

Ângela Novais, Tenured Senior Researcher at UCIBIO, Faculty of Pharmacy University of Porto. My expertise lies in clinical microbiology and antimicrobial resistance, with a focus on translating vibrational spectroscopy into validated spectral fingerprinting strategies for rapid pathogen detection and infection control.

Robinson Sabino-Silva, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia (Brazil) and CNPq Research Productivity Fellow (Level C). His research focuses on salivary diagnostics and biofluid-based biosensing using vibrational spectroscopy and AI-driven analytics. He specializes in ATR-FTIR analysis of dried saliva films for translational disease diagnostics.

Associate Professor, McGill University and Director, McGill IR Group (founded in 1991).

Main research Interests: Microbial identification and strain typing by FTIR spectroscopy in food safety, veterinary, and clinical contexts; high throughput screening of saliva specimens by FTIR microscopy and by automated transflection-FTIR approaches; spectroscopic analysis of proteins in food systems; agri-food applications of hyperspectral imaging.

Roy Goodacre is Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Liverpool specialising in metabolomics, mass spectrometry and Raman spectroscopy. He develops analytical tools for health, disease, and food security, and has helped set global standards in metabolomics. Roy helped establish the Metabolomics Society and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Metabolimics.

The research of Hélène Soyeurt, Full Professor at the University of Liège (Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech), focuses on dairy science, animal breeding, and data science applied to milk phenotyping. She develops predictive models using mid-infrared spectroscopy to characterize milk composition and indirect relevant traits to improve animal selection and dairy sustainability. She is the chairwoman of the ExtraMIR initiative managed by ICAR and IDF.

Professor Bayden Wood heads the Monash Biospectroscopy group and is Professor of Physical/Analytical Chemistry at Monash University. He develops innovative, affordable and environmentally friendly spectroscopic technologies to combat major diseases, and applies advanced spectroscopy to ancient materials, including Egyptian mummification. He has 250 publications (14,000 citations, h-index 66), secured $7.5M in five years, holds 20+ patents, leads international collaborations, and teaches and mentors students.

Uladzislau Blazhko is a researcher in data science at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). His work focuses on bridging classical chemometrics with deep learning and developing hybrid digital twins for complex bioprocesses. He specializes in improving the generalizability and reliability of chemometric models.

As a Medical Physicist, Nick has worked throughout his career to pioneer optical diagnostics and therapies for the benefit of patients; working closely with clinical teams to understand the clinical need for real-time, objective methods. As well as making the first Raman measurements in various tissues, he has led three first in human trials for in vivo Raman devices. He developed SESORS, enabling Raman nanotheranostics https://rant-medicine.com/