Kishan Dholakia
22 - 26 June 2025
ICM – International Congress Center Messe München
München, Germany
Events
Kishan Dholakia
Centre of Light for Life, University of Adelaide, South Australia
Optical Frontiers in Reproductive Health: Imaging, Manipulation, and Measurement at the Start of Life
There is a burgeoning need to enhance assisted reproductive technologies to ultimately improve IVF outcomes. I will describe the use of a range of advanced photonics-based approaches of light sheet microscopy, photopolymerisation, optical trapping and digital holographic microscopy for this purpose.
About the Speaker
Kishan Dholakia is a Professor and Director of the Centre of Light for Life at the University of Adelaide. He is also a Professor at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
His team addresses various fundamental and interdisciplinary topics using structured (shaped) light fields, especially for imaging, manipulation and measurement.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Optica, SPIE and the Institute of Physics (IOP, UK). He has won several national and international awards, including the Optica R.W. Wood Prize (2016), the IOP Thomas Young Medal and Prize (2017), the SPIE Dennis Gabor Award (2018) and the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship (2021). His work in imaging and manipulation has seen successful industry translation, with instruments used in over ten countries worldwide.
