The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors announced the approval of 163 new Senior Members — an OSA distinction that provides individuals recognition for their experience and professional accomplishments within the field of optics and photonics. The 163 Senior Members were announced at CLEO 2016. A listing of the newly inducted OSA Senior Members appears below.
To qualify for Senior Membership, individuals must have at least ten years of significant professional experience in the field, an active OSA Membership and two endorsement statements from current OSA Members. Requests are reviewed by OSA’s Member and Education Services Council, which then recommends candidates to the Board of Directors for approval.
Senior Members receive the full complement of OSA Member benefits and services, plus:
- Special Recognitions — Senior Members are identified in the OSA Member Directory, on OSA.org and during OSA-hosted events.
- Announcements — In addition to this news release, newly-approved Senior Members are announced in: Optics & Photonics News and the OSA Member e-newsletter.
- Senior Member Certificate and Lapel Pin — Recognition materials are distributed upon request approval.
- Letter of Recognition — Approved Senior Members may request that a confirmation letter be sent to their employer.
Alphabetical list of the 163 Senior Members:
Vladimir Aksyuk, National Inst of Standards & Technology, US
Amin Al-Khursan, Thi-Qar University, Iraq
Percival Almoro, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines
Farzin Amzajerdian, NASA Langley Research Center, US
Andrea Armani, University of Southern California, US
Imrana Ashraf, Quaid-I-Azam University, Pakistan
Clara Rivero Baleine, Lockheed Martin Corp., US
Christoph Becher, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Andreas Beling, University of Virginia, US
Yves Bellouard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de LaUSnne, Switzerland
Aniceto Belmonte, Univ Politec de Catalunya Barcelona Tech, Spain
Corey Bennett, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
Garry Berkovic, Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Israel
Nicolò Beverini, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy
Frank Beyrau, Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Shanti Bhattacharya, IIT Madras, India
Joerg Bischoff, Osires, Germany
Umberto Bortolozzo, Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Alan Bristow, West Virginia University, US
Jake Bromage, University of Rochester, US
Douglas Brown, Raytheon ELCAN Optical Technologies, Canada
Kristian Buchwald, Ibsen Photonics A/S, Denmark
Liangcai Cao, Tsinghua University, China
Román Castañeda, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Shu-Wei Chang, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Taiwan
Hongwei Chen, Tsinghua University, China
YuBin Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, China
Prasanta Datta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Alberto Diaspro, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Ivan Divliansky, University of Central Florida, CREOL, US
Leonid Dombrovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Peter Dragic, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Allen Earman, AOSense, Inc., US
Georgios Ellinas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Habib Fathallah, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Mário Ferreira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
J. Michael Finlan, Northrop Grumman Corp., US
Andreas Fix, Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, Germany
Keith Forsyth, US
Shayan Garani, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Yuriy Garbovskiy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, US
Jorge Garcia-Sucerquia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
John Gillaspy, National Science Foundation, US
Keisuke Goda, University of Tokyo, Japan
Lifu Gong, Oplink Communications Inc., US
Juliet Gopinath, Colorado Photonics Industry Association, US
Mircea Guina, Tampereen Teknillinen Yliopisto, Finland
Brahim Guizal, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, France
Huanqing Guo, Detection and Vision System, Ireland
Khaled Habib, Materials Science & Photo-Electronics Lab, Kuwait
Peter Hartmann, SCHOTT AG, Germany
John Heebner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
Matthias Hoffmann, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, US
Esa Jaatinen, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Matthias Jaeger, Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
Vijay Janyani, Malaviya National Institute of Tech., India
Richard Jensen, Polatis, Inc., US
Jianming Jin, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Kyriacos Kalli, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Søren Keiding, Aarhus University, Denmark
Tina Kidger, Kidger Optics Associates, United Kingdom
Johannes Kiefer, Universitat Bremen, Germany
Alexander Kildishev, Purdue University, US
Jaeyoun Kim, Iowa State University, US
Sergey Kobtsev, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
Peter Krug, Australia
Anna Kudryavtseva, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia
Sunao Kurimura, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Chee-Wei Lee, Data Storage Institute, Singapore
Jason Lee, Rofin Sinar UK, United Kingdom
John Lee, US Naval Research Laboratory, US
Sergio Leon-Saval, University of Sydney, Australia
Renat Letfullin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, US
Changsheng Li, Beihang University, China
Jianzhao Li, University of Toronto, Canada
Yanqiu Li, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Chien-chung Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Kurt Linden, N2 Biomedical, US
Dahe Liu, Beijing Normal University, China
Jonathan Liu, University of Washington, US
Quan Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhengiun Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Ter-Hoe Loh, Broadcom Limited, Singapore
Marco Lombardo, IRCCS Fondazione G.B. Bietti, Italy
Arkady Major, University of Manitoba, Canada
Alejandro Martinez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Madhavi Martin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US
Dalip Mehta, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Gabriel Mennerat, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US
Vinod Menon, City College of New York, US
Christopher Middlebrook, Michigan Technological University, US
Maria Millan, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Jean-Pierre Monchalin, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Germano Montemezzani, Universite de Lorraine, France
Linda Mullen, Naval Air Systems Command, US
Niru Nahar, Ohio State University, US
Chittur Narayanamurthy, Indian Institute of Space Sci & Tech, India
Miguel Navarro-Cia, University of Birmingham, US
George Nehmetallah, Catholic University of America, US
Galina Nemova, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Kristian Nielsen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark
Takahiro, Ode FOV, Japan
Kimio Oguchi, Seikei University, Japan
Hirotaka Ono, NTT Device Technology Laboratories, Japan
Wounjhang (Won) Park, University of Colorado at Boulder, US
Helen Pask, Macquarie University, Australia
Guido Perrone, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Nicholas Peters, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US
Michael Pircher, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Pablo Postigo, Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Kemao Qian, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yury Rakovich, Center for Mat Physics, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Spain
S. Anantha Ramakrishna, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Danny Rich, Sun Chemical Corporation, US
Andre Richter, VPIphotonics, Germany
Clara Rivero Baleine, Lockheed Martin Corp., US
Martin Rochette, McGill University, Canada
Eric Rosas-Solis, Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, Mexico
Ali Rostami, University of Tabriz, Iran
Filippus Roux, CSIR National Laser Centre, South Africa
Brian Salzberg, University of Pennsylvania, US
Darryl Sanchez, US Air Force Research Laboratory, US
David Scherer, Microsemi, US
Katharine Schmidtke, Facebook, US
Axel Schulzgen, University of Central Florida, US
Thomas Seeger, Universität Siegen, Germany
Zouheir Sekkat, MAScIR, Morocco
Sergey Sergeyev, Aston University, United Kingdom
Omur Sezerman, OZ Optics Ltd, Canada
Xiaoming Shang, Candela Corp., US
David Shapiro, Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russia
Shyh-Chiang Shen, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
Min-Hsiung Shih, RCAS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Mehrdad Shokooh-Saremi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
L. Montgomery Smith, University of Tennessee Space Institute, US
Marat Soskin, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
Steven Spector, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, US
Balaji Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Paul Steinvurzel, The Aerospace Corporation, US
James Stewart, Inphi Corporation, US
Slawomir Sujecki, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Sergey Sukhov, University of Central Florida, CREOL, US
Robert Tench, Cybel, LLC., US
Isabell Thomann, Rice University, US
Tim Thomas, PDX Photonics, US
Victor Torres-Company, Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden
Roberto Torroba, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Argentina
Nikolaos Tsitsas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dmitry Turchinovich, Max Planck Inst. for Polymer Research, Germany
Selim Unlu, Boston University, US
Georgios Veronis, Louisiana State University, US
Matias Viotti, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Jian Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Pei-Kuen Wei, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Christian Wetzel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Fred Whitney, Lockheed Martin Corp., US
Guanglin Yang, Peking University, China
Baoli Yao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ya Sha Yi, University of Michigan, US
Zhen Yuan, University of Macau, Macau
Patrick Yue, HKUST, Hong Kong
Hans Zappe, University of Freiburg, Germany
Song Zhang, Purdue University, US
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