Optica announces 2024 class of Senior Members
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11 July 2024
Optica announces 2024 class of Senior Members
Distinction from the Optica Board of Directors recognizes new Senior members for their experience, professional accomplishments
WASHINGTON— Optica announces and celebrates the Senior Member class of 2024. 95 Optica members have received the distinction of Senior Member, which recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments in optics and photonics.
“I very much appreciate the decision that the Optica Board of Directors a while ago approved the class of Optica Senior Members. Distinctions play such an important role and they are the currency with which Optica can say thank you for outstanding scientific accomplishments in our field and for service to the Optica Community encouraging others to follow their footsteps.” said 2024 Optica President, Gerd Leuchs, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. “My congratulations to the 2024 class!”
The 2024 class joins a distinguished group of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators who have demonstrated exemplary professional accomplishments in optics and photonics. To qualify for Optica Senior Membership, individuals must have at least 10 years of significant professional experience in the field, five years of active Optica membership, and two endorsement statements from current Optica members.
- Marc Achermann, Sigrist Photometer AG /Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
- David Allred Brigham Young, University
- Patrizio Antici, INRS
- James Armstrong, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Ganesh Balakrishnan, University of New Mexico
- Enkeleda Balliu, Cobolt AB, part of Hubner Photonics
- Melissa Beason, Air Force Institute of Technology
- Martynas Beresna, University of Southampton
- Simeon Bogdanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Neil Bruce, Instituto de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnología, UNAM
- Stefan Carp, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
- Wei-Ting Chen, SNOChip
- Huihui Cheng, Xiamen University
- Karl Citek, Pacific University College of Optometry
- Giampiero Contestabile, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
- Dominique Dagenais, National Science Foundation
- Martin Daniels, OSRAM
- Jennifer Decker, National Research Council Canada
- Jianglei Di, Guangdong University of Technology
- Roman Egorov, Crown Castle
- Jonathan Fan, Stanford University
- Xue Feng, Tsinghua University
- Shiyao Fu, Beijing Institute of Technology
- Girija Gaur, Morgan Lewis
- Somnath Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Viktor Goldovsky, HillBerry GAT Ltd.
- Amit Goyal, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Lili Gui, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- Fernando Guiomar, Instituto de Telecomunicações
- Nikhil Deep Gupta, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India
- Jonathan Habif, Information Sciences Institute
- Oliver Heckl, University of Vienna
- Eric Herman, Synopsys
- David Hillier, AWE
- Aurelien Houard, Ecole polytechnique
- Hao Huang, Amazon
- Silvia Soria Huguet, Institute of Applied Physics Nello Carrara
- Oleksandr Isaienko, Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Jakob Janting, Technical University of Denmark
- Zbigniew Jaroszewicz, National Institute of Telecommunications
- B. Keith Jenkins, University of Southern California
- Yuechen Jia, Shandong University
- DongKyun Kang, University of Arizona
- Michal Karpinski, University of Warsaw
- Amirkianoosh Kiani, Ontario Tech University
- Nathaniel Kinsey, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Kyoko Kitamura, TOHOKU University
- Victor Kulikov, University of Dayton
- Manoj Kumar Lakra, Kobe University, Japan
- Ya-Ju Lee, National Cheng Kung University
- Yanjun Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology
- Huihui Lu, Jinan University
- Joseph Lukens, Arizona State University
- Yaoguang Ma, Zhejiang University
- Andrea Marini, University of L’Aquila
- Sean A. McDaniel, Air Force Research Laboratory
- Rui Min, Beijing Normal University
- Craig Mueller, The Aerospace Corporation
- Inbarasan Muniraj, Alliance University
- Michel Olivier, Universite Laval
- David Peckham, OFS
- Jörg Piper University of Oradea, Romania
- Matthew Posner, Optonique
- Basudev Roy, IIT Madras
- Judson Ryckman, Clemson University
- Winston Schoenfeld, University of Central Florida
- Peter Shardlow, Trumpf
- Behnam Shariati, Fraunhofer HHI
- Florian Stroehl, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Brent C. Stuart, LLNL
- Myoung-Gyun Suh, NTT Research
- Jyh Rou Sze, Taiwan Instrument Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories.
- Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Abderrahmen Trichili, University of Oxford
- Maciej Trusiak, Warsaw University of Technology
- Thorsten Uphues, Coburg University of Applied Science and Arts
- Martin Virte, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Cheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong
- Qian Wang, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering
- Lihui Wang, Soochow University
- Xiaoming Wei, South China University of Technology
- Florian Willomitzer, Wyant College of Optical Sciences - University of Arizona
- Christopher Wood, ColdQuanta dba Infleqtion
- Robert Woodward, Toshiba Europe Ltd
- Pin Chieh Wu. National Cheng Kung University
- Yi Xu, Guangdong University of Technology
- Shuangyi Yan, University of Bristol
- Shang Hua Yang, National Tsing Hua University
- You Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Nathan Youngblood, University of Pittsburgh
- Hanyu Zhan, Corning Inc.
- Haitao Zhang, Tsinghua University
- Guoan Zheng, University of Connecticut
- Jun Zhu, Tsinghua University
- Mo Zohrabi, University of Colorado Boulder
Senior Members are identified in the Optica Individual Directory and during Optica-hosted events.
- New Senior Members are announced in a news release, the Optica publication Optics & Photonics News and the Optica Member newsletter.
- Senior Member Certificate and Lapel Pin — Recognition materials are distributed upon request.
- Letter of Recognition — Approved Senior Members may request that a confirmation letter be sent to their employer.
- Exclusive Senior Member Programs — Opportunities from networking to mentoring to bring professionals together to learn and engage each year.
About Optica
Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, is the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in the field. Founded in 1916, it is the leading organization for scientists, engineers, business professionals, students and others interested in the science of light. Optica's renowned publications, meetings, online resources and in-person activities fuel discoveries, shape real-life applications and accelerate scientific, technical and educational achievement. Discover more at: Optica.org
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