Dodd-Walls Centre annual symposium
24 November 2025·
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Mallika Suresh
Mallika Suresh took part in the Dodd-Walls Centre annual symposium, held from 24 to 27 November 2025.
The Dodd-Walls Centre is New Zealand’s Centre of Research Excellence for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, and one of Tuwhiri’s affiliated partners. Its annual symposium puts most of the country’s photonics community in one room, which makes it the natural place to present the up-conversion work and to meet the students the programme will need over the next five years.
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Lead, Photonics
Mallika Suresh (Mika) is a Research Fellow at the Physics Department of the University of Otago and the Photonics Lead of Tuwhiri. For the last 5 years, her research has been focused on electro-optic nonlinear mixing of terahertz signals with optical modes in whispering gallery mode resonators. Before that, during her PhD, Mika worked with femtosecond pulses in gas-filled hollow-core fibres under the supervision of Prof. Philip Russell and Dr. Francesco Tani at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. Soon after joining Harald’s team, she supervised the setting up of a femtosecond laser ablation system at the Physics Department for (among other applications) the fabrication of dielectric whispering gallery mode resonators for nonlinear optical experiments. She was the Agnes-Blackie Research Fellow of Te Whai Ao – Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies in 2024 – 2026 and now is an Associate Investigator in Te Whai Ao. Mika is also leading collaborations with international experts in the field of terahertz photonics such as Prof. Withawat Withayachumnankul at the University of Adelaide and Prof. Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as part of the Tuwhiri programme.