Dr. Turgut Durduran is a group leader at ICFO. He founded the ICFO-Medical Optics group in 2009 when he joined ICFO and in 2014 he received his tenure and became a professor/group leader. In 2015, he became an ICREA (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) Professor at ICFO. Over the years, the group has grown exponentially, and currently comprises a large number of PhD students, post-docs and engineers collaborating with about a dozen hospitals and biomedical institutes worldwide. Prof. Durduran received his PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. His primary lines of research encompass the development of diffuse optical technologies, the exploration of new biomarkers of cerebral health, and predicting and directing experimental cancer therapy. He has participated in many advisory boards, grant review boards ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the review of the FP7 projects at the European Commission. He has authored over one hundred peer-reviewed papers and delivered over one hundred and fifty invited talks at international conferences and colloquia.