Nicolas Volet holds a PhD in laser physics from EPFL (Switzerland), after which he worked in Santa Barbara (CA, USA), first as a postdoc in silicon photonics at UCSB and later setting up an R&D center for a telecom company. He now heads a research group of Integrated Photonics at Aarhus University (Denmark) and is a Board Member of the Danish Optical Society (DOPS). In 2020, he co-founded UV Medico, a company based in Aarhus with the mission to fight the spread of infectious diseases with human-safe UV light.