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Technical Group Leaders
These individuals were selected by their peers to lead select technical groups from 2025 - 2027.
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2025 Technical Group Leaders
Optica is pleased to announce the next leaders for twenty-eight of our technical groups. Optica Technical Groups are vibrant and active communities that connect Optica members with colleagues and leaders within specialized topic areas worldwide.
The selected individuals will serve as chair for a three-year term starting in January 2025. Elected by their fellow members, these individuals will be responsible for selecting an executive committee to collaborate with to foster a sense of community among the members of their group. Working together, they will organize special events featuring tailored programming, host webinars on hot topics, and share information on the latest developments in their field throughout their three-year terms.
The 2025 Technical Group Leaders are:
Agriphotonics
Aparajita Bandyopadhyay
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Applied Spectroscopy
Patrick Skrodzki
Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
Color
Jingyi He
University of California, Berkeley, United States
Display Technology
Kaan Akşit
University College of London, United Kingdom
Environmental Sensing
Gizem Karslioglu
Earthscope Consortium, United States
Fiber Modeling and Fabrication
Turghun Matniyaz
Corning Inc., United States
Fiber Optics Technology and Applications
Brandon Buscaino
Ciena Corporation, United States
Fundamental Laser Sciences
Ji Eun Bae
CIMAP-CNRS-Université de Caen Normandie, France
Holography and Diffractive Optics
Abhijit Roy
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Imaging Optical Design
Nicholas Kochan
Physical Sciences Inc., United States
Integrated Photonics
Ritu Raj Singh
Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India
Laser Systems
Derek Burrell
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Nanophotonics
Ankur Saharia
Manipal University Jaipur, India
NonImaging Optical Design
Aby Joseph
ASML, United States
Optical Biosensors
Santosh Kumar
Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, India
Optical Fabrication and Testing
Vinod Mishra
CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization, India
Optical Material Studies
Ivo Tanghe
University Ghent, Belgium
Optical Trapping and Manipulation in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Falko Schmidt
ETH, Switzerland and Lucero Bio, Sweden
Optics for Energy
Banafshe Zakeri
HySON Research Institut Sonneberg, Germany
Optics in Digital Systems
Yixiao Zhu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Quantum Communication
Kristina Meier
Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
Quantum Computing
Robert Chapman
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Quantum Optical Science and Technology
Ryota Katsumi
University of Tokyo, Japan
Quantum Optical Science and Technology
Bienvenu Ndagano
INRS-EMT, Canada
Quantum Sensing
Qiushuo Sun
British Telecom plc, United Kingdom
Short Wavelength Sources and Attosecond/High Field Physics
Shima Gholam Mirzaeimoghadar
National Research Council Canada, Canada
Therapeutic Laser Applications
Anine Crous
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Thin Films
Michele Magnozzi
Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Vision
Len Zheleznyak
Clerio Vision, Inc. and the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, United States
