Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics International Conference 2026

After tremendous endeavors, Nanophotonics has already departed from its infancy and stepped into an exciting era, where research ideas and theoretical concepts are being vigorously transferred into functional devices and real-life applications. The 8th edition of the NANOP conference identifies the successful development of Functional Nanophotonics over the last decades as well as outlines upcoming research directions and topics, offering a vibrant platform for scientists to discuss, share, and fantasize.

This conference will gather an excellent group of Plenary speakers from different topics and will be held in Rome on October 5-7, 2026

TOPICS :

• Photonic & plasmonic nanomaterials
• Optics and transport on 2D materials
• Metamaterials and metasurfaces
• All dielectric nanophotonics
• NanoAntennas
• Strong light-matter interactions at the nanoscale
• Quantum nano-optics
• Nano-Optomechanics
• Nano-optical trapping
• Quantum dots and colour centres
• Enhanced spectroscopies
• Optical sensing
• Electron beams for nanophotonics
• Bottom-up approach enabled nanophotonics
• Nanoscale photothermal effects
• Hot Electrons
• Nonlinear & ultrafast nano-optics
• Advanced imaging
• Topological photonics & Non-reciprocal nano-optic
• Inverse design in photonics

Chairman: Daniele Sanvitto - Director of Research at the Institute of Nanotechnology of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

Plenary speakers: 

• Andrea Cavalleri - Max Planck Institutes, Germany
• Giulio Cerullo - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Jérôme Faist - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Jonathan Finley - Walter Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• Mohammad Hafezi - University of Maryland, USA
• Peter Lodahl - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Amalia Patane - University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
• Fabio Sciarrino - Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
• Christine Silberhorn - Paderborn University, Germany
• Qihua Xiong -Tsinghua University, China