Matthew Posner is Optica Ambassador, and Director of Technology and Business Development at Axonal Networks. Previously, he was Technical Consultant and Director of workforce and photonics education programs at Optonique. From 2018-2022, a Semiconductor Process Scientist and Product Line Specialist at Excelitas Technologies. He obtained an MEng in electronics engineering from the University of Southampton in 2013 and a PhD from the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton in 2017.
Matthew’s doctoral research was in the subject area of photonic integrated circuits and planar Bragg gratings for applications in quantum science and sensing. His research experience is in integrated waveguide design, cleanroom fabrication and laser materials processing methods for fabrication, and device characterization and packaging.
Dr. Piotr Roztocki is co-founder and CTO of Ki3 Photonics Technologies, a quantum networking start-up company based in Montreal, Canada. A spin-off from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, where he completed his PhD in quantum photonics, Ki3 develops the technologies needed to support quantum resources in standard telecommunications infrastructure.