Keynote Speakers

Dr. David Donovan obtained his PhD under Dr. Allen Carswell at York University in Toronto, Canada in 1996. The subject of his thesis was lidar measurements of Stratospheric Ozone and Aerosols. In 1998, he arrived at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), where he became involved with multi-instrument cloud and aerosol remote sensing. He became a member of the ESA/JAXA Earth Clouds, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer mission advisory group in the early 2000s. He has developed and continues to maintain and improve key aerosol and cloud retrieval algorithms for ATLID (the lidar onboard EarthCARE). In addition, he serves as the co-chair of the ATLID instrument working group responsible for the quality of the ATLID L1 data.

Songhua Wu is currently the Deputy Dean of College of Marine Technology, group leader of lidar laboratory at Ocean University of China, Qingdao, which develop the Doppler wind lidar, HSRL, Raman and Polarization LIDAR for marine and atmosphere dynamics and environmental research. He got his PhD degree in 2004 in laser remote sensing. He is the PI of several international and national research projects supported by MOST, NSFC and ESA-MOST, etc. Songhua Wu served as full Professor at OUC since 2010, DAAD visiting senior scientist in German Space Agency DLR/IPA in 2013, and served as Topical Editor for Applied Optics published by OSA. He is the founder of the Leice-Lidar company for meteorology, wind energy and aviation service.

Mikkel Brydegaard, born Copenhagen 1980. MSc. Electrical Engineering and PhD in Atomic Physics, both from LTH, Lund. Brydegaard is an optical spectroscopist specializing in biophotonics and remote sensing. He is the inventor of Scheimpflug lidar, the hyperspectral Scheimpflug lidar, and recipient of the Inaba prize and two European Research Council grants for these topics. In particular, he developed entomological lidar and advanced statistical signal analysis which he developed more than a decade. Brydegaard have been active developing physics across West Africa and the Andean nations, he holds several patents and co-founded multiple companies. Currently senior lecturer at Physics Department, Lund, senior researcher at Norsk Elektro Optikk and affiliated research with Biology department in Lund.