Dawson Bonneville received his Bachelor and PhD from McMaster University, Canada in Engineering Physics, specializing in integrated photonics with a variety of materials for amplifiers and sensors and now is a Postdoc in the Integrated Optical Systems group at University of Twente in the Netherlands. Here he is continuing his research on integrated photonics with a focus on sputter deposited aluminium oxide for UV photonics as well as erbium doped alumina for amplifiers and lasers.