About SDU Centre for Photonics Engineering

The strategic vision of the centre is to advance expertise in the spatial and temporal shaping of light in 2D, 3D, and 4D – so-called Light Sculpting – and its many applications within optics and photonics engineering.

Andreas Gejl Madsen holds an M.Sc. in Engineering in Physics and Technology from the University of Southern Denmark and completed an industrial Ph.D. in collaboration with Radiometer Medical ApS. His Ph.D. research focused on the development of holographic microscopy for the characterization and counting of white blood cells, with the aim of enabling faster and more accurate diagnostic analyses.

Andreas conducts research in advanced holography and computational light control. His work focuses on the development and application of the HoloTile algorithm, enabling efficient and precise control of light for a wide range of applications, including fabrication, lithography, and holographic microscopy.

Professor Glückstad is the inventor of Generalized Phase Contrast (GPC) and its extended modalities, mGPC, TF-GPC, and Holo-GPC. These technologies have found a wide range of applications in optical manipulation, biophotonics, neuro- and nano-biophotonics, advanced beam shaping and excitation in space and time, optical phase security, optical parallel processing, wavefront control, and phase sensing.
The centre has also pioneered the emerging field of light-driven micro- and nano-robotics, known as Light Robotics.