Matias won poster prize (1st place) at the ICOAM 2022 that took place in Tampere. In his poster, he presented the cylindrical version of the self-imaging effect, called the Talbot effect, and showed its application as a higher order beam splitter, even in the quantum domain (link).
Congratulations, Matias !!!
The other winners were:
Natalia Herrera Valencia, – Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom – Entangled ripples and twists of light: Radial and azimuthal Laguerre-Gaussian mode entanglement
Maddie Waller, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom – Environment-modified Three-body Energy Transfer