Scientific Outcome

R1 - Stefania Zoi
(Prof. Chalk)

Paradeisios A. Boulakis, Nicholas J. Simos, Stefania Zoi, Sepehr Mortaheb, Christina Schmidt, Federico Raimondo, Athena Demertzi. Variations of autonomic arousal mediate the reportability of mind blanking occurrences. Scientific Reports 2025, 15(1):4956. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-81618-1.

Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R2 - Lorenzo Fratini
(Dr. Mestre)

Lorenzo Fratini, Jaume Pujol, José Luis Güell and Clara Mestre. Validation of a Laptop-Webcam-Based Eye Tracking System for Saccade Measurement. In: Biophotonics for Eye Research Summer School 2025 (BER2025) of the Spanish Optical Society, 2025, pp. 93–96.
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  • UPC Student Fair – Optical experiments with a kit for children. Location: CD6 (UPC), Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 20/11/2024.
  • Pint of Photonics – Presentation of Ph.D. research work. Location: UPC Campus Nord (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 11/02/2025.
  • Roundtable for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science – Participation in the organization. Location: UPC FOOT, Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 26/02/2025.
  • XIV Reunión del Comité de Optoelectrónica (OPTOEL 2025) – Participation in Pint of Optoelectronics (Optoel Joven). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Location: Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Dates: 01/07/2025.
  • Optics Escape Room – Design and preparation of optical challenges for students to solve. Location: UPC FOOT, Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 13/05/2025.
  • Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.

 

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R3 – Armin Eskandarinasab
(Prof. Vilaseca)

Armin Eskandarinasab, Laura Rey-Barroso, Francisco J. Burgos-Fernandez, Meritxell Vilaseca. Comprehensive and Region-Specific Retinal Health Assessment Using Phasor Analysis of Multispectral Images and Machine Learning. Sensors 2026, 26:1021. DOI: 10.3390/s26031021.

  • Armin Eskandarinasab, Laura Rey-Barroso, Francisco J. Burgos-Fernández, Meritxell Vilaseca. Improving a Multispectral Camera for Simultaneous Retinal Oximetry and Multispectral Image Acquisition. In: Biophotonics for Eye Research Summer School 2025 (BER2025) of the Spanish Optical Society, 2025, pp. 65–66.
  • Armin Eskandarinasab, Laura Rey-Barroso, Francisco J. Burgos-Fernández, Meritxell Vilaseca. Color-Coded Phasor Analysis for Improved Retinal Disease Differentiation. In: Congreso Nacional de Color 2025 (CNC2025), pp. 55–58.
  • Armin Eskandarinasab, Laura Rey-Barroso, Francisco J. Burgos-Fernández, Meritxell Vilaseca. Exploiting Spectral Signatures for Retinal Health Assessment: A Phasor Analysis Approach. In: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO 2025), pp. M5A.1., DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/ECBO.2025.M5A.1
  • Armin Eskandarinasab, Laura Rey-Barroso, Francisco J. Burgos-Fernández, Meritxell Vilaseca. Region-Based Phasor Analysis of Multispectral Retinal Images for Disease Identification. In: Conference on Recent Advances in Translational Eye Research 2025 (CRATER 2.0), Warsaw, Poland, October 8-10, 2025, pp. 34.
  • UPC Student Fair – Optical experiments with a kit for children. Location: CD6 (UPC), Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 20/11/2024.
  • Pint of Photonics – Presentation of Ph.D. research work. Location: UPC Campus Nord (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 11/02/2025.
  • Roundtable for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science – Participation in the organization. Location: UPC FOOT, Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 26/02/2025.
  • XIV Reunión del Comité de Optoelectrónica (OPTOEL 2025) – Participation in Pint of Optoelectronics (Optoel Joven). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Location: Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Dates: 01/07/2025.
  • Optics Escape Room – Design and preparation of optical challenges for students to solve. Location: UPC FOOT, Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 13/05/2025.
  • Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.
  • International Day of Color – Presentation of recent research outcomes on retinal pulse oximetry and introduction of the BE-LIGHT project to a general audience. Location: Online event. Organized by: SEDOPTICA. Date: 26/03/2026 – Video available

 

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R4 – Raúl Urriza
(Dr. Grulkowski)

  • Raúl Urriza-Arpal, Patrycja Pyzik, Lukasz Ambroziński, Ireneusz Grulkowski. Visualization and quantification of mechanical wave propagation in soft media using phase-sensitive OCT and focused-ultrasound stimulation. In: Conference on Recent Advances in Translational Eye Research (CRATER 2.0), Warsaw, Poland, October 8–10, 2025, pp. 38.
  • Raúl Urriza-Arpal, Patrycja Pyzik, Lukasz Ambroziński, Ireneusz Grulkowski.  Non-Contact Stifness Assessment of Thin Soft Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms and Ex Vivo Corneas Using Acoustic Micro Tapping and Surface Wave Analysis Supported by OCT. In: Annual German Acoustics Conference (DAGA 2026), Dresden, Germany, March 23–26, 2026
  • WFAiIS Open Day 2025 – Show the educational opportunities available at the faculty and the lines of research being developed at the BOEL lab. Location: Faculty of Physics (UMK), Torun (Poland). Organized by: Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics – UMK. Date: 15/03/2025.
  • Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.
  • WFAiIS Open Day 2026 – Show the educational opportunities available at the faculty and the lines of research being developed at the BOEL lab. Location: Faculty of Physics (UMK), Torun (Poland). Organized by: Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics – UMK. Date: 21/04/2026

 

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R5 – K. Abbas Abidi
(Prof. Luther, Prof. Parlitz)

Abbas Abidi. Pattern formation in Chemistry and Biology. In: 26th Seminar of Pattern Formation in Chemistry and Biology, Berlin Center for Studies of Complex Chemical Systems (BCSCCS e.V.), Wittenberg, Germany, February 20–22, 2025.

Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R6 – Consuelos Rojas
(Prof. Masoller)

  • Jakub Jagielski, Consuelo Rojas, Markus Abel. Private GPTs for LLM-driven testing in software development and machine learning. arXiv, 2025. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.06509.
  • Consuelo Rojas & Cristina Masoller. Exploring the classification performance and data requirements of Catch22 features on noisy periodic synthetic time series – Under revision
  • Consuelo Rojas, Ulrich Parlitz and Cristina Masoller. Testing the performance of catch22 time-series features for classifying short, noisy, and periodic signals. In: XIII COMPLEXITAT Day, CEAB Blanes, Spain, May 25–26, 2026 – Upcoming
  • Consuelo Rojas, Jakub Jagielski, M. Quade, Markus Abel. Private GPTs for LLM-driven testing in automotive development of software and AI. In: Driving for Future Symposium, Munich, Germany, October 8–9, 2025.
  • UPC Student Fair – Optical experiments with a kit for children. Location: CD6 (UPC), Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 20/11/2024
  • Roundtable for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science – Participation in the organization. Location: UPC FOOT, Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 26/02/2025
  • Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025
  • Presentation of “Signal classification with Catch22” – Consuelo’s work presentation to the group DONLL (UPC). Organized by: DONLL (UPC). Date: 23/04/2025
  • Pint of Photonics – Organization and presentation of research work for Master’s students. Location: UPC Campus Nord (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Photonicat Student Chapter. Date: 27/02/2026

 

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R7 – Muhammad Usman
(Prof. Ruminski)

Muhammad Usman, Milena Sobotka, Jacek Rumiński. STREAM-Net: Spatio-Temporal Feature Fusion Network for Robust rPPG Signal Measurement in Remote Health Monitoring. Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025, Article ID 114080.

  • Muhammad Usman, Jacek Rumiński. The Influence of Color on Semantic Ulcer Segmentation Using Deep Learning Models. In: Joint 20th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering & 24th Polish Conference on Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (NBC PCBBE 2025), Springer, Cham, 2025, pp. 147–164.
  • Milena Sobotka, Kamil Kopryk, Muhammad Usman, Jacek Rumiński. Explainable Estimation of Blood Volume Pulse Signals from Video Sequences Using a Combination of Deep Learning Models and Signal Processing Methods. In: Joint 20th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering & 24th Polish Conference on Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (NBC PCBBE 2025), Springer, Cham, 2025, pp. 75–89.
  • Participation in seminar – Sixth Doctoral School of the European Training Network project SmartGYsum. Location: PG (Gdansk, Poland). Organized by: Gdasnk Tech. Date: 25-30/05/2025 – Flyer of the event 
  • Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Participation in the video recording of the other fellows. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.

 

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R8 – Cristian Ciobanu
(Prof. Razansky)

  • Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Winner of PitchFest. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.
  • Science Day at Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology – Poster presentation  and participation on the organization committee. Location: Zúrich, Switzerland. Organized by: Pharmacology and Toxicology Institute (UZH). Date: 26/10/2024 – Link to poster

 

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R9 – Ivan Gligonov (Prof. Enderlein)

  • Ivan Gligonov & Jörg Enderlein. Variational calculus approach to Zernike polynomials with application to fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. bioRxiv (preprint), 2024. DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.06.588390
  • Samrat Basak, Alexey I. Chizhik, José Ignacio Gallea, Ivan Gligonov, Ingo Gregor, Oleksii Nevskyi, Niels Radmacher, Roman Tsukanov, Jörg Enderlein. Super‑resolution optical fluctuation imaging. Nature Photonics 2025, 19:229–237. DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01571-3.
  • José Ignacio Gallea, Oleksii Nevskyi, Zuzanna Kaźmierczak, Ivan Gligonov, Tao Chen, Paulina Miernikiewicz, Anna M. Chizhik, Lenny Reinkensmeier, Krystyna Dąbrowska, Mark Bates, Jörg Enderlein. Super‑Resolution Goes Viral: T4 Virus Particles as Versatile 3D‑Bio‑NanoRulers. Advanced Materials 2025, 37(12):2403365. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202403365.
  • Ivan Gligonov & Jörg Enderlein. Variational calculus approach to Zernike polynomials with application to fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. 29th International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-Resolution Microscopy, Berlin, Germany, October 8–10, 2024, pp. 6–7.
  • Arjun Sharma, Oleksii Nevskyi, Ivan Gligonov, Jörg Enderlein. Polarized FL-SMLM for Sub-Nanometer Single Molecule Colocalization. 29th International Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Super-Resolution Microscopy, Berlin, Germany, October 8–10, 2024, pp. 15–16.

Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R10 – Komal Rani
(Prof. Rizzoli)

Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Winner of PitchFest. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

R11 – Ioannis Georvasilis
(Dr. Roldán)

  • López-Márquez, A., Badosa, C., Enjuanes, L., Hernández-Carabias, P., Sánchez-Martín, M., Cadot, B., Guesmia, Z., Georvasilis, I., Balsells, S., Blanco-Ramos, M., Puighermanal, E., Quintana, A., Roldán, M., Allamand, V., Jiménez-Mallebrera, C. Generation and Characterization of Col6a1 Knock-In Mice: A Promising Pre-Clinical Model for Collagen VI-Related Dystrophies. bioRxiv (preprint), 2025. DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.11.642560
  • G. Nolasco, M. Roldán, Y. Jamshidi, I. Georvasilis, R. J. Rodríguez, R. Boostani, A. Shoeibi, L. Armengol, A. Codina, E. G. Karimiani, C. Hernando-Davalillo, L. Martorell, M. L. Ramírez Almaraz, J. Muchart, C. Ortez, A. Nascimento, R. Urreizti, D. Natera-de Benito, M. Serrano. 2025. Expanding Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias Limits: Biallelic SPAST Variants in Cerebral Palsy Mimics. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 0:1-14. DOI: 10.1002/acn3.70206
  • Ioannis Georvasilis, M. Frías, C. Badosa, A. López-Márquez, C. Jiménez-Mallebrera, M. Roldán. Advancing Diagnosis of COL6-CMD: AI and Transfer Learning in Muscle Tissue Analysis. In: Spanish and Portuguese Advanced Optical Microscopy Meeting (SPAOM 2024), pp. 72–73.
  • U. Musokranova, I. Georvasilis, M. Frías, S. Illescas, M. Roldán, A. García-Cazorla, A. Oyarzábal. Estudio de la red mitocondrial como biomarcador para el apoyo al diagnóstico en pacientes mitocondriales con nuevas variantes em DNM1L. In: XVI Congreso Nacional de Errores Congénitos del Metabolismo. Zaragoza, Spain, October 22-24, 2025

Baltic Science Festival – A video presentation, a short and dynamic talk as part of the PitchFest event and a poster session. Location: Multiple locations (Pomerania, Poland). Organized by: Politechnika Gdańska. Date: 23/05/2025.

For more information, please visit the Photonicat Student Chapter LinkedIn page and follow BE-LIGHT on social media.

Other Dissemination Activities

  • Meritxell Vilaseca. Nuevas tecnologías ópticas e inteligencia artificial para el diagnóstico médico. In: II Jornades Mediterrànies de la Visió, Auditori AXA, Barcelona, Spain, 2024, 27-29 September. https://mediterranies.jornadescoooc.cat/conferencias
  • Meritxell Vilaseca, Laura Rey-Barroso, Francisco J. Burgos-Fernández. Hyperspectral imaging and deep learning for improved medical diagnosis. In: XXXIX Biennial of the Royal Spanish Physics Society, Symposia, Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain, 2024, July 15-19. https://bienalfisica.org/en/symposia#headingSimposio18
  • Mònica Roldán. Explorando el futuro del diagnóstico biomédico: Microscopía Confocal, Superresolución e Inteligencia Artificial. In: XIII Congreso Nacional de Microscopía, Monterrey, México, 2024, 23-27 September. https://ammmicro.mx/congreso/programa-de-simposios/
  • Mònica Roldán. Com es pot ajudar la microscòpia confocal i superresolució en el diagnòstic. In: Sessió Extraordinària, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, 2024, 18 June.
  •  Mònica Roldán. Microscopía Confocal y Superresolución: Aplicaciones biomédicas en el campo de la investigación y del diagnóstico. In: Institut Bonanova, 2024, 26 November.
  • Mònica Roldán. ¿Cómo nos puede ayudar la microscopía confocal y la superresolución en el diagnóstico. In: Escola el Turó, 2024, 2 December. https://www.facebook.com/escolaelturo/?locale=es_ES
  • Mònica Roldán. La Plataforma de Microscopía Confocal y Superresolución del Hospital Sant Joan de Déu i l’Institut de Recerca. In: PCCB Research Retreat, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, 2024, 26 January.
  • Mònica Roldán. Artificial intelligence applied to Confocal Microscopy. In: Fifth Mexican Bioimaging Workshops, National Autonomous University of Mexico, México (Online), 2023, 13-16 June. Financed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative through the “Expanding Global Access to Bioimaging” program.
  • Mònica Roldán. La microscopía confocal y superresolución i les seves aplicacions biomèdiques en el camp de la investigació i diagnòstic. In: Programa Formatiu 2023 FSJD-IRSJD, Aula de Pediatria, 2023, 13 June.
  • Meritxell Vilaseca. Jornada de Portes Obertes del CD6 – Organization of an open house event to showcase CD6’s technological capabilities in photonics and optical engineering, including the presentation of the BE-LIGHT project and its applications in photonics and AI for health. Location: CD6 (UPC), Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: CD6 (UPC) within the framework of BE-LIGHT. Date: 13/11/2025
  • Meritxell Vilaseca. DIH4CAT Programme: Aplicacions de la fotònica (CD6) – Participation in a training and networking event on photonics for industrial innovation, including a presentation of the BE-LIGHT project and its applications in photonics and AI for health. Location: CD6 (UPC), Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: DIH4CAT. Date: 05/12/2025.
  • Meritxell Vilaseca. 4a Jornada Dones, Ciència i Tecnologia – Participation as an invited keynote speaker, presenting the role of photonics and AI in medicine, with a focus on the BE-LIGHT project. Location: Terrassa (Barcelona, Spain). Organized by: Terrassa Townhall and UPC, in collaboration with local universities. Date: 13/03/2026.
  • Clara Mestre and T. Rowan Candy. Continuous tracking as a tool for pediatric binocular vision assessment. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (ARVO annual meeting journal), 66(8), 5346.

Ivana Ivankovic, Hsiao-Chun Amy Lin, Ali Özbek, Ana Orive, Xosé Luís Deán-Ben, Daniel Razansky. Multispectral optoacoustic tomography enables in vivo anatomical and functional assessment of human tendons. Advanced Science 2024, 11(18):2308336. DOI: 10.1002/advs.202308336. Link to manuscript