Prof. Dr. Jesper Glückstad (JG) established the Programmable Phase Optics in Denmark two decades ago and is currently Professor & Head of SDU Photonics Engineering, Univ. Southern Denmark. Guest Prof. at Nagoya University, Japan from April 2020. Prior to that, he was a Professor in the Dept. of Photonics Engineering at the Technical Univ. of Denmark and held a 5-year Guest Professorship in Biophotonics at Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 2004, he received the prestigious Doctor of Science (DSc) degree from DTU for the dissertation entitled “The Generalised Phase Contrast method”. 

Together with a colleague, he has authored a 315-page Springer book on this topic. Prior to his achievements in Denmark, JG was a visiting scientist at Hamamatsu Photonics Central Research Laboratories and in the Physics Dept. at Osaka University in Japan. Since he obtained his PhD at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in 1994, he has published 620 journal articles and international conference papers and holds over 35 international patent families. He has published papers in Nature Materials, Nature Methods, Nature Photonics and Nature Communications. He is the 2000 recipient of the Danish Optical Society Award and was elected as «Scientist of the Year» in 2005 by Dir. Ib Henriksen’s Foundation in Denmark. JG is a 2010 elected Fellow of Optica and a Fellow of SPIE as the first from DK. In 2012-2014, he was appointed to the prestigious SPIE Fellows committee together with an American physics Nobel laureate. 

In 2013 & 2016 invited to join the Editorial Boards of the European Optical Society journal JEOS and De Gruyter’s ODPS. JG was invited as a Plenary Speaker for one of the world’s most prestigious nanotech conferences, IEEE NANO 2016. Invited as nominator for the highly prestigious 50 million yen Kyoto Prize 2017 and 2022 (aka the Asian Nobel Prize). A +480 pages Elsevier book on Light Robotics – the first on the topic - was published mid 2017. JG is founder of the Børsen Gazelle 2019 awarded OptoRobotix ApS originally rooted in Silicon Valley, CA, USA + the associated tech-transfer GPC Photonics. Recently patented the digital holographic HoloTile, HoloVAM, Phazor and QuanTile => based on this IP platform, co-founded with Dr. Andreas Gejl Madsen a new upcoming spin-out from SDU coined HoloTile Photonics ww.HoloTilePhotonics.com