28-29 October 2025
Seoul, Korea | Hybrid event
As the only industry event that truly unites the quantum dot and phosphors communities in support of continued commercial advancement, the Phosphors & Quantum Dots Industry Forum offers attendees a welcoming and collaborative meeting place to make important connections, explore new opportunities, share ideas, and prepare for the future of this rapidly evolving and vibrant marketplace.
Widely recognized as the global "intersection of academia and industry", this comprehensive, one of a kind conference features an agenda designed to offer attendees a unique balance of industry hot topics, technical research, and commercial innovations; uniting leading experts from all stages of development and all aspects of the luminescent materials value chain.
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Dr. Wakui received his Ph.D. in Engineering in 2010 at the University of Electro-Communications, Japan. His research interest at the doctoral course is nano-scale dielectric properties near semiconductor / oxide interfaces using first principles calculations. Since joining Nichia in 2010, He has been working in the development of new phosphors.
Tae-Woo Lee is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 2002. He joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher in 2002 and then worked at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as a member of the research staff (2003–2008). He was an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, until August 2016. He received numerous prestigious awards, including the Merck Award (2006), Korea Young Scientist Award from Korea President (2008), the Scientist of the Month Award from the ministry of science, ICT and future planning in Korea (2013), Research Innovation Award from Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea (2018), Korean Engineering Award (Presidential Award) (2021), Commendation from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea (Minister’s Award) (2021), and Kyung-Ahm Prize (2023). He was appointed as a Fellow of Korea Academy of Science and Technology in 2021. He was honored as 2020 MRS Fellow and 2024 SPIE Fellow.
Markus Suta studied Chemistry (MSc) at the University of Siegen, Germany, and obtained his PhD degree in Chemistry in the group of Claudia Wickleder in 2017. He followed up with a second degree in Physics (MSc) with specialization in Theoretical Physics in the group of Thomas Mannel in Siegen. From 2018 to 2021, he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Andries Meijerink at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Since 2021, he has been holding a tenure track position for Inorganic Photoactive Materials at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. His interests lie in the development and a fundamental understanding of new inorganic phosphors for various applications such as LEDs, luminescent thermometry, upconversion, as well as a better understanding of nonradiative transitions. For that purpose, he and his group combine inorganic synthesis and structural chemistry in solid-state systems with advanced optical characterization by means of luminescence spectroscopy as well as theoretical modelling.
Dr. Igor Nakonechnyi is the co-founder of QustomDot, a company he helped launch in 2020. His deep expertise in colloidal quantum dots (QDs), cultivated since his postdoctoral research at Ghent University (following a PhD equivalent in solid-state chemistry from Chernivtsi National University in 2013), powerfully informs QustomDot's product development strategy, with a significant focus on innovative ink-jet inks for Quantum Dot Color Conversion (QDCC) in next-generation displays. Igor also leads efforts in securing government funding, managing partnerships, fostering agile R&D, building a talented technical team, and overseeing intellectual property as a member of the board of directors. His work is dedicated to advancing QD applications and large-scale production while ensuring their stability, particularly within the rapidly evolving display technology sector.
Andries Meijerink (1963) received his MSc and PhD degree in Chemistry at Utrecht University. After a post-doc in Madison (University of Wisconsin) he returned to Utrecht in 1991. In 1996, at the age of 32, he was appointed at the chair of Solid State Chemistry in the Debye Institute of Utrecht University where he leads an active group in the field of luminescence spectroscopy of quantum dots and lanthanide ions. In the field of lanthanide ions his work involves fundamental research on the energy level structure of both 4fn and 4fn-15d states and finding new concepts related to applications in solar cells, LEDs and scintillators, including the discovery of downconversion. Andries Meijerink received several awards, including the Shell Incentive Award (1995), the Gold Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (1999) and the Centennial Award for Luminescence and Display Materials from the Electrochemical Society (2002) and the Gilles Holst Medal (2019). In 2009 he was elected into the Royal Dutch Academy of Science.
Longjia Wu received his Bachelor degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), and then got his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 2015. After graduation, he joined TCL Corporate Research, engaging in the development of high performance quantum-dot light-emitting diodes for display application.
Ingo Koehler currently leads the department Future Display Business at Merck KGaA, Germany. In this strategic marketing role he is responsible for growing new business opportunities and new business models within Merck’s “Display Solutions” business sector. Between 2014 to 2018 he was Director Global R&D Solid State Lighting. In 2011 Ingo Koehler became the global director of Technical Marketing and R&D responsible for customers in the touch-panel and the photovoltaic markets. He worked in this field since 2007 as the R&D leader of new business topics. When he joined Merck in 2005 he was responsible for the development of OLED production technologies. From 2000-2005 he was responsible for product development in various companies working in the fields of glass fibers, laser processes, and the development of sapphire substrates for GaN-LED growth. Ingo Koehler was a member of the scientific advisory board of Fraunhofer ISE PV-TEC, Germany and holds a Ph.D. in semiconductor and solid state physics.
Juanita Kurtin is Director of Materials Research for OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. Prior to 2018, Dr. Kurtin was the CTO and co-founder of Pacific Light Technologies (PLT), an Oregon start-up company delivering high quality nanomaterials to the solid-state lighting and display markets in order to increase LED efficiency and brightness. She has a background in the research of nanomaterials for various device applications, including transistors, solar cells, and light emitting diodes.
Prior to founding PLT, Dr. Kurtin was the VP of R&D at SpectraWatt, a solar cell manufacturing company, and also spent six years developing new device architectures at Intel.
Dr. Kurtin obtained her BS degree in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, studying with quantum dot pioneer Dr. Paul Alivisatos.
Hunter McDaniel, PhD is UbiQD’s Founder and CEO. He transitioned from a postdoc position at Los Alamos National Laboratory to the company’s first full-time employee in 2014. His vision for the company is to become the worldwide leader in quantum dot manufacturing by enabling new products that aren’t possible with toxic CdSe or InP QDs. He has extensive relevant technical experience as he has worked on both traditional II-VI QDs (including those that contain cadmium) and I-III-VI QDs. During his career, Dr. McDaniel conducted research at top-tier research institutions; Los Alamos National Laboratory (postdoc 2011-2014), Argonne National Laboratory (2011), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (PhD 2006-2011), and University of California at Santa Barbara (BS 2001-2006)). He is highly experienced in the materials science of semiconductor nanocrystals and their optoelectronic device applications (e.g., solar cells, LEDs) with over twenty research publications and more than 700 citations.
Morgan Pattison is President of SSLS, Inc. a technical consulting firm focused on LEDs, OLEDs, and solid state lighting. He also serves as Senior Technical Advisor to the U.S. DOE Solid State Lighting Program. In this capacity Morgan provides technical direction for DOE supported R&D, co-authors the DOE SSL Multi-Year Program Plan and Manufacturing Roadmaps, and monitors DOE supported R&D projects. Morgan has a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara with an emphasis on electronic and photonic materials. At UCSB Morgan performed research on GaN micro-cavity LEDs, non-polar LEDs, laser diodes, VCSELS, and UV LEDs.
