Prof. Juergen Czarske (Center BIOLAS, Biomedical Computational Laser Systems, Dresden), the current Vice President of the International Commission for Optics (ICO), is the organizer of 17th OWLS Conference 2024 to be held at IIT Bombay, India.
Prof. Sudipta Maiti (Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR Mumbai) appointed as the new President of International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences.
Prof. Juergen Czarske (Center BIOLAS, Biomedical Computational Laser Systems, Dresden) was the Conference Chair of 16th OWLS Conference 2022 held at TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Prof. Alexander Heisterkamp (Institute of Quantum Optics, Leibniz University Hannover) was the program committee chair.
Prof. Stefan Hell (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen), Nobel Laureate 2014, was the General Secretary of OWLS Society from 2005 to 2009.
Prof. David Sampson (University of Western Australia, and University of Surrey, GB) was the Conference Chair of 15th OWLS Conference 2018 held at Rottnest Island.
Glimpses of Conferences held from 2018 to 2023