The 2018 Young Scientist Award Lecture: Terahertz diagnostics in multidisciplinary fields

In this talk I will present a series of applied research projects that my group has worked in the last few years that involve the use of terahertz radiation in many fields including cultural heritage evaluation, industrial quality control, materials science, biology and medicine. I will also try to summarize the work of some other groups in terahertz applications and discuss the challenges and opportunities I see in the implementation of applications of terahertz radiation in many fields.