OSA - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Corning Optical Communications, USA
- Director at Large Appointed
- Vice President for Optical Communications Technology Development at Corning
Aleksandra Boskovic serves as Vice President for Optical Communications Technology Development at Corning. She is responsible for ensuring an integrated technology strategy and innovation delivery across fiber, cable and connectivity. This includes delivering the most valuable components and solutions to Corning's customers, while capitalizing on competitive advantages in fiber, cable, connectivity, actives, and software. Boskovic joined Corning in 1997 as a scientist at Corning's main R&D center in NY. Throughout her career, Boskovic has built a strong track record in technology leadership in broad technical areas touching all of Corning's businesses. Boskovic is an Optica fellow and member of IEEE Photonics Society.
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- Executive Editor
- Senior Staff Member
Jens Biegert is ICREA Professor of Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico in the USA, and guest professor at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. He is the Executive Director of Laserlab-Europe, an association uniting 45 of Europe's foremost research infrastructures and institutions across 22 countries. His scientific contributions bridge atomic, molecular, and solid-state physics with an emphasis on real-time multi-body physics. His work includes ultrafast few-cycle and phase-stable sources, mid-infrared photonics, attoscience, strong-field physics, coherent x-ray spectroscopy, and electron diffraction imaging. Jens Biegert is actively involved in the scientific community as co-author of the white book leading to the European Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) and as a Board of Chairs member of the Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIE), uniting more than 40,000 researchers in academia and industry across Europe. He is a Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, a Fellow of the Optica (formerly the Optical Society (OSA), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is member of Optica, the German Physical Society, the American Physical Society, Deutscher Hochschulverband, and AAAS. Jens Biegert currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant, has secured an ERC PoC Grant, and was recently awarded the Bessel Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Jens Biegert serves as Associate Editor for Ultrafast Science and Optica and is active on various advisory and review boards of institutions and funding agencies. He has been an IONS Traveling Lecturer since 2013.
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Software Application Development, Information Technology
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Sales
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- Corporate Secretary
- Director
- General Counsel
- Senior Staff Member
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, IT Infrastructure & Security
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- Senior Staff Member
- Science Advisor
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director at Large
- Professor of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal, Cana
Caroline Boudoux is a Professor of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada, with appointments as a researcher at Ste-Justine Hospital, University of Montréal's Biomedical Engineering Institute, and Quebec's Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers (COPL). She completed a BASc in Engineering Physics at Université Laval, a PhD within the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (with Brett E. Bouma and Guillermo J. Tearney), and a postdoctoral fellowship at École Polytechnique de Paris (with Emmanuel Beaurepaire and Manuel Joffre).
Boudoux is recognized for her contributions to the field of biomedical optics, notably the design and application of novel fiber optics assemblies for endoscopic applications involving optical coherence tomography and confocal endomicroscopy. She received one of Canada's University Faculty Awards in 2008, was named Quebec's Star Researcher in 2011, and obtained a Fulbright Award as a Visiting Scientist at Stanford in 2015. She is also known for her contributions to teaching. In 2017, she published Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics, a complete introductory textbook on the physics of photon-tissue interactions and the design of imaging instruments exploiting these interactions. Since, she has taught in numerous summer schools (in Mexico, Ireland, and the UK) and, of course, to students at Polytechnique, which presented her with the 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award. She has trained more than 35 graduate students and postdocs-most of whom shared their work through Optica meetings or publications.
Invited speaker at several Optica meetings since 2005, she is now further contributing to the organization of the Biophotonics Congress as its Vice-Chair for 2023 and General Chair for the 2025 edition. In addition, she represents the Biomedical Optics portfolio at Optica's Board of Meetings Committee, to students in the Amplify program, and at IONS. She also discusses applications of light monthly as a regular contributor to CBC/Radio-Canada's radio show (and podcast) Moteur de Recherche, reaching Canadians (and Netizens) of all ages directly in their homes.
In 2013, with her colleague Nicolas Godbout and investors Normand Brais and Alex Cable, she founded Castor Optics, thus completing the translation of one of her patents from lab to industry. Since, in strategic partnership with Thorlabs, Castor has diversified its portfolio by licensing other patents from Polytechnique and developing its own intellectual property centered around fused fiber components such as double-clad fiber couplers, multimode circulators, and photonic lanterns-a technology which earned Castor a spot amongst the finalists at the 2023 Laser World of Photonics Innovation Award. Boudoux also serves on the Board of Directors of Institut National d'Optique (INO), a research and technology organization serving the industrial ecosystem needing optics-based solutions. These experiences strengthened her appreciation of industrial considerations and modulated how she trains the next generation of optical scientists and engineers. Her mentorship skills were recognized by Quebec's Minister of Higher Education in 2021 and by Quebec's Order of Engineers in 2023.
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- Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co, USA
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- Executive
- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Foundation Executive Director
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- Director, Production & Technology
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Publishing Sales & Marketing
- Senior Director of Marketing & Sales, Publishing
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Meeting and Exhibit Operations
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- Features Editor, U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, USA
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Government Relations
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- Director, Information Technology
- Senior Staff Member
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman, Membership Engagement & Development Council / Optikos Corporation
Elizabeth (Liz) Rogan was appointed Optica Chief Executive Officer in 2002. Previously, she served as the organization's Chief Operating Officer. From her earliest days with the association, Rogan listened to constituents to understand their areas of interest and suggestions. Her strong connection with the community and enthusiasm for exploring new opportunities have influenced the strategies she has helped bring to life.
Under Rogan's guidance, the society's annual budget has grown to US$50M, with 150 staff members. In 2002, she launched the Optica Foundation, a charitable entity that now has USD 150M in reserves. Her legacy covers the expansion of the society's global community to include more than 400,000 scientists, engineers and business leaders from 181 countries.
In 2019, Rogan was named an Optica Fellow for outstanding long-term management of the Society and leadership across the optics and photonics community, guiding extensive growth in programs, member engagement, diversity, inclusivity and public policy. She was among the first class of Foreign Fellows of the Chinese Optical Society (COS). The COS Fellow designation is bestowed to those who have made notable contributions to the development of optics and photonics science and technology in China.
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Executive
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- Executive
- Deputy Executive Director & Chief Publishing Officer
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Officers Team
Rogan is a CPA, an alumnus of the University of Connecticut, U.S. and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Executive Education Program.
Contact the office of the CEO:
ceo@optica.org
+1 202.416.1467
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Senior Staff Member
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- Executive
- Chief of Employee and Membership Engagement Officer
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- Member of the Officers Team
- TREASURER
- Treasurer / Oakshire Partners
- Vice President and General Manager of the Optical Solutions Group With the Synopsys
George Bayz joined Synopsys as the Vice President and General Manager of the Optical Solutions Group with the Synopsys' acquisition of Optical Research Associates (ORA) in October 2010. Bayz has over 25 years of senior management experience with high-technology firms. Prior to Synopsys, Bayz was President and CEO of ORA, served on the ORA Board of Directors and chaired the ORA Audit Committee, which provided oversight of the reporting practices of the company and the quality and integrity of the company's financial statements. Prior to ORA, he was President and CEO of PeoplePoint Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company; General Manager and Executive Vice President at Artemis International Solutions Corp., a provider of advanced project management solutions; President and CEO of Thinque Systems, a workforce automation solutions provider; and President and CEO of MAI Systems Corporation, a provider of information technology to the hospitality industry.
Bayz received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from Loyola Marymount University. He is a Member of the California Bar and is a California Certified Public Accountant.
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- Director
- Member of the Officers Team
- President
- President / Max Planck Institute
Gerd Leuchs is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen and an adjunct professor within the physics department of the University of Ottawa. After 15 years in academic research at the University of Cologne, the University of Munich and JILA in Boulder, Colorado, he worked at a Swiss optics company for five years before becoming a full professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. His scientific work includes quantum beats, photo-electron angular distributions in multiphoton ionization, quantum noise-reduced and entangled light beams and solitons in optical fibers and quantum communication protocols, focusing light beams and nanophotonics.
For five years, Gerd Leuchs led the German gravitational wave detection group (1985-1989). He has been a Visiting Fellow of JILA, Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Heisenberg Fellow of the German Science Foundation and Visiting Professor at the Australian National University, at the University of Adelaide and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a member of the German Physical Society, the German Society for Applied Optics, the European Physical Society, and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Optica and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary degrees from the Danish Technical University and Saint Petersburg State University. Over the years, he has served on several OSA committees.
In 2005, he received the Quantum Electronics Prize from the European Physical Society, and in 2018, the Herbert Walther Prize jointly awarded by OSA and the German Physical Society (DPG). He won an advanced grant from the European Research Council, a megagrant from Russia, and a Julius-von-Haast Fellowship award from the Royal Society of New Zealand. With his research, Gerd Leuchs is contributing to the field of quantum technology. He is member of a number of advisory boards for quantum technology application and innovation in Germany and abroad.
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- Editor - in - Chief
- Member of the Officers Team
- Founding and Managing Member
- Member of the Army Science Board
- Vice - President / MEPSS, LLC
Gisele Bennett is a founding and managing member of MEPSS LLC, a startup software company servicing first responders internationally. Bennett has held academic, industry, and research positions for over 30 years. These positions include Senior VP for Strategic and Research Initiatives and Professor at Florida Tech and numerous positions at Georgia Tech. At Georgia Tech, she held the positions of Regents' Researcher (a position nominated by the President and approved by the Board of Regents), Associate Vice President for Research, Faculty Integration, and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and was responsible for increasing research collaboration between academic and applied research. At the Georgia Tech Research Institute, she held the Glenn Robinson Chair in Electro-Optics, founded the Logistics and Maintenance Applied Research Center, and as the Director for the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory, led the growth of the research portfolio from industry and DoD sponsored to $50M a year in research funding in the areas of optical imaging systems, EO modeling, and simulation, LIDAR development for sensing, Active-EO Systems development, and IoT sensor system development.
Bennett is a member of the Army Science Board and on the Board of Trustees for Riverside Research Institute. She is a Fellow with Optica (formerly OSA) and SPIE and a Senior Member of the IEEE. She is the Editor-in-Chief for Applied Optics, is past President of the IEEE Council on RFID, and serves on the Strategic Planning Council for Optica. She was elected to the position of 2018-2020 Director at Large on the Optica Board of Directors. She has been a feature editor and topical editor for Applied Optics, has been a feature editor for Optical Engineering, and an associate editor for International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications. She is a visiting lecturer for SPIE and Optica. She has served as a research proposal reviewer for the National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) and a reviewer for numerous referred journals. She is one of the first ten fellows chosen for Georgia Tech's University Leadership program. She has received awards including the Superior Civilian Service Medal, Department of the Army (2019), the second highest award of the Department of the Army, and the Commander's Award for Public Service, Department of the Army (2018). She has over 130 publications in books or book chapters, refereed journals, technical reports, and workshops.
Her research interests are broad and include coherence theory applications to optical imaging systems, atmospheric turbulence and wave propagation, RFID, decision support systems, and secure supply chain technologies. She holds patents for Integrated Sensor Radio Frequency Identification (ISRFID) with Location and for container security devices, and a copyright on a computer model for Wave Propagation through the atmosphere. She has been involved in projects that involve international collaboration with funding from DoD, DHS, and industry. She has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a certificate in Management of Technology from Georgia Tech. She is an instrument rated single engine-land private pilot.
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Brand & Enterprise Marketing
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- Member of the Officers Team
- President - Elect / Spectra - Physics / MKS, USA
James Kafka attended the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester, where he obtained a B.S. in Optics in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Optics in 1983, studying with Conger Gabel and Gerard Mourou, the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. Of his time spent at Rochester, Kafka found that it was a fabulous time to be at the Institute and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, as he met lifelong friends and colleagues, including several future Optica Presidents such as 2018 Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland.
In 1983, Kafka started as a Senior Scientist at Spectra-Physics Lasers, where he has held a series of positions with increasing responsibility, including Chief Technology Officer. He was recently named a Fellow of MKS, the parent company of Spectra-Physics. During the past 38 years, he designed several of the company's most significant products, including the Tsunami, the first commercial ultrafast Ti: sapphire laser (1990), the Millennia X, the first commercial 10 W solid-state green laser (1997), and the InSight, the first broadly tunable ultrafast source for microscopy (2011). Kafka was recognized as a Spectra-Physics Fellow in 1987. He also received the Thermo Electron Corporate Award for Technical Innovation in 2002 and the first Newport Corporation Strategic Patent Award in 2007 for his patent of the first diode-pumped double-clad fiber laser. Kafka has 45 United States patents and multiple foreign equivalents. He has more than 30 publications in refereed journals and has made more than 40 presentations at CLEO, Optica topical meetings, SPIE conferences and at major universities. Kafka presented a plenary talk at the 2018 IEEE Photonics Conference.
Kafka has served the professional community as the Ultrafast Topical Editor for JOSA B (1994-1995), Lasers Technical Group Chair (1995-1997), and on a dozen conference organizing committees. He has served as the CLEO program chair (1999), CLEO general chair (2001), and on the CLEO Steering Committee (1997-2001). He completed a three-year sequence as the Program and General Chair of the Advanced Solid-State Photonics topical meeting (2009-2011). Kafka was named an Optica Fellow in 2005 and served as a Director at Large on Optica Board of Directors from 2012 to 2014. He was a member (2015) and chair (2016) of the prestigious Charles Hard Townes Medal Committee and a member of the Frederick Ives Medal / Jarus W. Quinn Prize Committee for 2020 and 2021. Kafka was a lecturer at the inaugural Siegman Summer School in 2014 and again in 2020 and a lecturer at the Optica Career Accelerator in 2022. One of his favorite contributions to the optics community has been serving as a Distinguished Traveling Lecturer for the APS Division of Laser Science from 1999 to 2017.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman, Meetings Council / ICFO - the Institute of Photonic Sciences
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- Deputy Senior Director, Development & Fundraising
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- Chief Technology Officer
- Executive
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director at Large / Macquarie University
- Professor of Physics
Judith Dawes is a Professor of Physics and Director of MQ Photonics Research Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Dawes graduated from the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D.). During her Ph.D. she was awarded a Rotary International Fellowship to spend a year at the University of Rochester, NY, USA. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Macquarie University, she was appointed to a faculty position at Macquarie. Dawes served as Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University (2013-15) and is a member of the Academic Senate of the University.
Dawes is a Fellow of OSA and SPIE. Her contributions to the Optics community include service as an Associate Editor for Optica (since 2018), Joint Editor of the Australian Optical Society News (1994−1996), and an Editorial Board Member for Optics and Photonics News (2010−2012). Dawes also served on the C.E.K. Mees Medal Committee as a member (2019-2020) and as Chair (2020-2021). She has served on numerous conference organising committees, including Frontiers in Optics, CLEO PacRim and CLEO.
Dawes is the Honorary Treasurer for Science and Technology Australia, the peak representative body for approximately 85,000 scientists and technologists in Australia. As former President (2010-12) and member of the Council (2008-14) of the Australian Optical Society (AOS, now the Australian & New Zealand Optical Society), she lobbied on national issues and supported the local optics community with the AOS News, a national lecture series for Laserfest, AOS conferences and student conferences.
With interests in lasers and laser applications in medicine, Dawes' current research focusses on the collective interactions of light at the nanoscale, applying nanophotonics to imaging and sensing. Her research achievements include the crystal growth, optical characterisation, and laser operation of a new laser crystal, Yb:YAB, which emits tunable, self-frequency-doubled, infrared and green light; and the invention of a laser-cured protein solder for laser microsurgery to repair severed nerves and blood vessels.
Dawes has mentored and supervised over 40 PhD, Masters, and 4th year research students and postdoctoral fellows, who have made successful careers in universities, government laboratories, technology start-ups and larger industries, school teaching, astronomy, patent law and clinical medicine in Australia and internationally.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director at Large / Coherent Corp
- Senior Vice President and General Manager of II - VI Incorporated 's Optoelectronic
Julie Sheridan Eng serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of II-VI Incorporated's Optoelectronic Devices and Modules Business Unit. In this role, she oversees engineering, product management, and operations for GaAs vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), InP directly modulated lasers (DMLs) and detectors, and CMOS/BiCMOS integrated circuits for datacom and 3D sensing applications. Prior to joining II-VI, Eng served as General Manager of Finisar Corporation's 3D Sensing Business Unit, Executive Vice President of Finisar's Transceiver Engineering, and Director of Transceiver Engineering at AT&T/Lucent/Agere.
During Eng's 14-year tenure as head of Finisar's Transceiver Engineering, under her engineering leadership, Finisar became a technology powerhouse in the fiber optics industry. The teams she managed delivered over 200 optoelectronics products to market, which were qualified by all major OEM and datacenter customers, shipped in very high volume, and contributed materially to the buildout of the fiber optic enterprise and datacenter networks. In addition, her team demonstrated many industry firsts, including the first demonstration of 100Gb/s (CFP) and 200Gb/s (QSFP56) transceivers, as well as the first demonstrations of 25Gb/s and 50Gb/s VCSELs and DMLs.
In 2018, Eng transitioned to 3D sensing VCSELs, and the teams she is managing have brought up state-of-the art 6² GaAs VCSEL laser manufacturing capability and have qualified multiple GaAs VCSEL 3D sensing products that are shipping in high volume into consumer and automotive markets for applications such as proximity sensing, facial recognition, and photo enhancement in mobile phones, as well as in-cabin sensing and LiDAR in automobiles.
Eng is a Past Chair of the IEEE Committee on Women in Engineering and presently serves on the SPIE Executive Advisory Group. She has published over a dozen papers, co-authored a book chapter, holds six U.S. patents, and has given numerous invited talks. Eng holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude in Physics from Bryn Mawr College, a B.S. degree with honors in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She was recently elected an Optica Fellow.
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Research and Program Development
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- Publisher
- Senior Publisher
- Senior Staff Member
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Publishing Production & Technology
- Senior Director, Publishing, Production & Technology.
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Diversity, Inclusion & Volunteer Cultivation
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Governance & Special Programs
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- Fellow
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director at Large / University of Oxford
- Professor of Optical and Photonic
Martin J. Booth is Professor of Optical and Photonic Engineering at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He studied Engineering Science (M.Eng.) at Oxford and then completed his doctorate (D.Phil.) in the group of Tony Wilson on the subject of Adaptive Optics for Confocal Microscopy. Immediately following his doctorate, he was awarded an independent Junior Research Fellowship, and subsequently, he held two further prestigious research fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He was made associate professor in 2014 and then full professor later the same year. From 2019-2021 he was Associate Head of Department for Research; since 2021, he has been Deputy Head of Department. In 2012, he won the international Young Researcher Award from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and a visiting professorship. In 2014, he was awarded the International Commission for Optics Prize.
Booth is a Fellow of Optica, SPIE, and the Institute of Physics. He has made many contributions to the optics and photonics community through Optica/OSA and other societies. He was an associate editor of Optics Express (2007-2013) and Biomedical Optics Express (2010-2013). He was editor (2013-2015) and then editor-in-chief (2015-2021) of Optics Communications. He is now an associate editor of Light: Science & Applications (2018-). He has served on numerous conference committees, including Optica/OSA's Adaptive Optics, Novel Techniques in Microscopy, CLEO Biophotonics, CLEO Europe. He was general chair (2016-2018) of the Institute of Physics Photon conference, the UK's major optics and photonics conference. He was the founding chair of the Oxford Photonics Network (2012), which brought together over forty research groups across the university for the first time. He also established the Optica student chapter in Oxford and still serves as its senior member.
Booth's research centres on the use of adaptive optics to enhance the capabilities of high-resolution optical systems. With his team, he has made numerous advances in adaptive aberration correction for microscopy, with applications ranging from super-resolution cell imaging to deep-tissue imaging for neuroscience. He has established novel adaptive optical techniques for laser-based precision manufacturing, enabling technologies in diamond photonics and electronics, sapphire optical fibres, liquid crystals and photonic circuits. Further fundamental advances have been made in spatio-temporal and vectorial adaptive optics. Much of this work has been carried out in collaboration across scientific disciplines. This research has led to over 170 journal publications, which have attracted more than 11,000 citations. He has presented over 125 invited, plenary or keynote talks at conferences.
In his career, Booth has mentored over 50 researchers (PhD students and post-docs), many of whom have moved on to positions in academia and industry. He has been highly engaged in innovation and commercialisation. He has filed over 25 patents, several of which have been licensed to industry. He has founded two spin-out optical systems manufacturing companies, Aurox Ltd. and Opsydia Ltd., and served on their management boards.
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- Senior Staff Member
- Science Advisor
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman, Corporate Engagement Council / Lightwave Logic, Inc
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- Member of the Officers Team
- PRESIDENT
- Immediate past President / Columbia University, USA
Michal Lipson is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics at Columbia University. Lipson pioneered critical building blocks in the field of Silicon Photonics, which today is recognized as one of the most promising directions for solving the major bottlenecks in microelectronics. In 2004, she showed the ability to tailor the electro-optic properties of silicon, which led to the explosion of silicon photonics research and development. The number of publications related to silicon photonic devices and systems is now more than 50,000 a year. A large fraction of these publications are based on Lipson's original papers published since 2001. Today, more than one thousand papers published yearly involve devices and circuits based on Lipson's original modulators, or based on other silicon photonics devices demonstrated by her group, including slot waveguides and inverse tapers. Her papers (over 250 refereed journal publications) have been cited more than 40,000 times. She is also the inventor on over 45 issued patents. Lipson has delivered hundreds of invited, keynote and plenary lectures in all the major conferences in optics and related fields.
Lipson received her Ph.D. in physics at the Technion in 1998. Following a postdoctoral position at MIT in the Material Science department from 1998 to 2001, she joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University and was named the Given Foundation Professor of Engineering at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012. In 2015, she joined Columbia University, where she is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Lipson currently serves on the Optica Board of Directors. She was elected an OSA Fellow in 2006 and has held several leadership positions in the scientific community, including an elected Director at Large on the OSA Board of Directors (2016-2018). She has co-organized numerous symposia and sessions in OSA conferences and was the general co-chair of CLEO (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) in 2019.
In recognition of her work in silicon photonics, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and to the American Academy of Arts Sciences (AAAS), and was awarded the NAS Comstock Prize in Physics, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Blavatnik Award, the OSAR, W. Wood Prize and the IEEE Photonics Award. She also received an honorary degree from Trinity College, University of Dublin. Since 2014, she has been named every year by Thomson Reuters as a top 1% highly cited researcher in the field of Physics. She currently serves on the board of directors for two international photonics centers and three start-up companies and is a member of the external evaluation board for two academic institutions. She is a co-founder of PicoLuz, a company specializing in nonlinear silicon photonic components, and of Voyant, a company developing next-generation Lidar technology based on silicon photonics.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director at Large Appointed
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- Senior Staff Member
- Director, Technical Program Development and Strategy
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- Executive
- Chief Science and Technology Officer
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- Istituto Di Fotonica E Nanotecnologie ( IFN ) - CNR, Italy
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- Executive
- Chief Events & Corporate Engagement Officer
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- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Executive
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- National Research Council ( CNR ), Italy
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Researcher
- Chairman, Publications Council / University of Rochester
- Professor
Susana Marcos is an acclaimed researcher in the field of visual optics and ocular imaging. She is a pioneer in the development of new techniques for the evaluation of the eye, including retinal imaging instruments, aberrometers, adaptive optics, anterior segment imaging of the eye and intraocular lens designs.
Dr. Marcos earned her Bachelor and PhD degrees in Physics at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Before coming to Rochester, she was Director of the Institute of Optics, CSIC (2008-2012), Spain, and Professor of Research at CSIC, where she founded the Visual Optics and Biophonics Lab in 2000. Prior to her tenure at CSIC (the top research institution in Spain, and #7 public research institution in the world), she was a postdoctoral Fellow (funded by Fulbright and Human Frontier Fellowships) at the Schepens Eye Research Institute (Harvard Medical School).
In July 2021 she was appointed Director of CVS, with dual affiliation in Optics and in Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester. She holds a "Viculated Doctorship" at the Institute of Optics, where she supervises a multidisciplinary, international team of more than 25 members. Her research programs at the University of Rochester address emerging technologies for myopia, presbyopia and cataract corrections.
Professor Marcos has published more than 180 highly cited research articles, and is the inventor of 20 patent families (14 licensed to the industry). Her research has been key in spin-off companies Plenoptika and 2EyesVision, which she co-funded in 2015. These companies commercialize the Quicksee and the SimVis technologies respectively.
Dr. Marcos has supervised 20 doctoral theses and delivered more than 250 talks at international conferences.
She has led publicly and privately funded projects including European Research Council Advanced Grants PRESBYOPIA and SILK-EYE, H2020-ICT Innovation Action IMCUSTOMEYE, ERC Proof of Concept Grants OCT4IOL, SimVisSim and LIGHT-IOL, ITN-Marie Sklodowska -Curie Actions OPAL and MyFUN.
Recognitions to her work include the Adolph Lomb Medal (Optical Society), ICO Prize (International Commission for Optics), Doctor Honoris Causa by the Ukraine Academy of Science and Technology, OSA Fellow, EOS Fellow, ARVO Fellow, Alcon Research Institute Award, Borish Scholar Award (Indiana University), Physics, Innovation and Technology Award (Royal Spanish Society of Physics-BBVA Foundation), Honor Plate of the Spanish Association of Scientists, Julio Pelaez Award to Women Engineers (Tatiana Perez de Guzman el Bueno Foundation), Ramón y Cajal Medal (Royal Academy of Sciences), King Jaime I Award, and National Research Award in Engineering (Government of Spain), the two latter awarded by the King of Spain.
Marcos is actively involved in professional societies and has served in various positions at the Optical Society (among many others as Director-at-Large, and currently in the Publications Council), The Spanish Society of Optics, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and the MIT M + Vision Consortium.
She has been an editor for Vision Research, Biomedical Optics Express, Optica (OSA), and Scientific Culture Editorial Board (CSIC). Marcos has also been President of the Technical Scientific Committee of the National Research Agency, and she is a member of numerous advisory boards in international organizations and companies.
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- Senior Staff Member
- Industry Advisor
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director at Large
- Vice President for Strategy
Ulrike Fuchs is Vice President for Strategy & Innovation at asphericon and oversees all R&D activities as well as strategic product development. After joining asphericon in 2010, Fuchs focused on linking the manufacturing of aspherics and metrology with questions in optical design. With her team, she also develops concepts to improve prediction of system performance during optical design and tolerancing. Most recently, Fuchs has emphasized transferring those ideas to freeform optics.
Fuchs holds a doctorate in physics from the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. Her research was in the field of ultrashort pulse lasers, investigating their interactions with fused silica experimentally and by means of numerical simulations. In 2004, she was awarded the Faculty Prize for her research work. Throughout this time, she was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation with a fully-funded scholarship, a highly prestigious and honorable distinction awarded to only a few hundred students throughout Germany each year.
In 2018, Fuchs was the inaugural winner of the Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award of Optica. She has authored and co-authored more than 70 publications and has registered six patent families. During the past 15 years, Fuchs has supervised more than 20 B.S. and M.S. theses in the field of optics. Also, she has been working as an Associate Editor for Optics Express since April 2018, and was elected a Fellow of Optica in 2020.
Beginning during her studies, Fuchs was involved as a representative in the faculty council and various appointment committees. Later, she began serving on program committees for various conferences, including optical design, optical manufacturing, metrology, and freeform optics. In 2019, she became the Chair of the SPIE Optical Design Conference and a member of the Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award Selection Committee. In 2021, she was also appointed to the Faculty Advisory Board of the Physics Department of the FSU Jena.
Ulrike Fuchs lives with her husband and two children (ages 16 and 11) in Jena, Germany.