Sandia National Laboratories, USA Bio Dr. Igal Brener is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He received his D.Sc. in Physics from the Technion (Haifa) in 1991. From 1983 to 1986 he worked for National Semiconductors in microprocessor VLSI design. He was with Bell Laboratories in NJ from 1991 until 2000, with Tellium Inc. from 2000 until 2002, and with Praelux/Amersham Biosciences/GE Healthcare from 2003 until 2004. He joined Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, in 2004 where he is currently science leader for nanophotonics at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies and research full professor at the University of New Mexico. He has authored more than 200 refereed publications, and has received 22 patents Dr. Brener is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the IEEE and the American Physical Society.