Dr Yash D Shah is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Xtreme Light Group at Glasgow University. He first earned his MS in solid-state physics from Northwestern University, before securing a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge for his work on THz quantum cascade lasers and waveguide design utilizing graphene-based optics and detectors. Shah’s present research focuses on pushing materials-science boundaries by designing and characterizing quantum optics and metamaterial surfaces.

Dr Jonathan J Burdett is currently the lead applications scientist at CRAIC Technologies, a leading microspectroscopy instrument manufacturer based in San Dimas, California. He earned his PhD in physical chemistry from the University of California, Riverside, for his investigation into the photophysics of singlet fission in tetracene, before he joined the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit (CaSTL) at the University of California, Irvine, where he applied his strengths in spectroscopy and optics to improve the performance and reliability of photoinduced force microscopy. At CRAIC Technologies, he is guiding designs for new products and expanding applications for current products.