Hamed Sattari obtained his Ph.D. in Photonics from the University of Tabriz in 2014. He then worked as a photonic R&D engineer at NANOTAM, Bilkent University, Turkey. In 2016, he secured a Swiss government excellence scholarship for a research role at EPFL, Switzerland. At EPFL (2017-2021), he excelled in projects focused on silicon photonics and MEMS. In 2020, Hamed advanced to a senior R&D engineer at CSEM, where he managed various projects in PICs and photonic MEMS. Currently, he leads CSEM's TFLN PIC platform technology and coordinates the H2020 ELENA project for establishing an open TFLN PIC foundry in Europe.