SPIE elects Henry Du to rank of Fellow

Hoboken, NJ--Nanotechnology-enabled fiber-optic sensing expert Henry Du, Ph.D., professor and director of the Chemical Engineering & Materials Science department at Stevens Institute of Technology, was recently elected by SPIE as a fellow of the society.

The fellowship acknowledges Du's significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging, honors his service to the general optics community and SPIE.

Du is especially known for his innovative approaches in applying molecular- and nano-scale surface functionalization of the axially aligned fiber cladding air channels in photonic-crystal fiber (PCF) to achieve surface-enhanced Raman scattering for robust chemical sensing and detection, as well as in integrating theoretical simulation with experimental inscription of long-period gratings in PCF as a sensitive index transduction platform for the monitoring of chem/bio binding events. He has received sustained funding from the US National Science Foundation and has published extensively in related research fields.

Du's interdisciplinary approach offers students critical training opportunities cutting across materials science, optics, surface chemistry, and biomedical engineering. He and his students regularly collaborate with faculty colleagues in those related disciplines.

Du actively contributes to the optics and photonics community as a member of the American Ceramic Society, the Materials Research Society, the AAAS, and the University Materials Council, and as a peer-reviewer for government funding agencies, private foundations, and professional journals. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He has been particularly involved with SPIE, organizing and chairing numerous conferences since 2005. He has been awarded three US patents, and he has previously been recognized with the Dean's Research Award, School of Engineering, Stevens (2004), the Jess Davis Memorial Award for Faculty Research Excellence, Stevens (2001, 2011), and the National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award (1991).

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