OSA promotes 66 members to rank of Fellow

Washington, DC--The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors has promoted 66 OSA members as the newest class of OSA Fellow members, each of whom will be recognized individually at meetings throughout 2012.

Any regular OSA member who has significantly contributed to the advancement of optics and photonics is eligible for election to the rank of Fellow. Drawing from nominations from current Fellows, OSA’s Fellows Members Committee recommends candidates to the Board of Directors. The number of Fellows is limited to no more than 10 percent of the total OSA membership.

Fellows are selected on a variety of criteria, such as record of significant publications or patents related to optics, achievements in optics, management ability, and service to OSA or the global optics community. More than 42 percent of this year’s Fellow members reside outside of the US.

OSA’s 2012 Fellow members are:

*Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
*Ishwar D. Aggarwal, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
*John Ballato, Clemson University, USA
*Harold E. Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry, USA
*Joss Bland-Hawthorn, University of Sydney, Australia
*Benoît Boulanger, Joseph Fourier University, Institut Néel, France
*Kurt Busch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
*Jin-Xing Cai, TE Subsea Communications, USA
*Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
*Lawrence R. Chen, McGill University, Canada
*Stephen Y. Chou, Princeton University, USA
*Mark D. Fairchild, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
*David N. Fittinghoff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
*Jason W. Fleischer, Princeton University, USA
*A. Mark Fox, University of Sheffield, England
*E. Joseph Friebele, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
*Valentin P. Gapontsev, IPG Photonics, USA
*Philip Hemmer, Texas A&M University, USA
*Douglas P. Holcomb, LGS Innovations, USA
*Minghui Hong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
*Mary Lou Jepsen, Pixel Qi Corp., Taiwan
*Wilhelm G. Kaenders, TOPTICA Photonics AG, Germany
*Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
*Randall James Knize, US Air Force Academy, USA
*Hao-chung Kuo, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
*Yinchieh Lai, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
*Fredrik Laurell, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Sweden
*Kevin K. Lehmann, University of Virginia, USA
*Miguel Levy, Michigan Technological University, USA
*Henri J. Lezec, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
*Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins University, USA
*Luis M. Liz-Marzan, University of Vigo, Spain
*Lenore McMackin, Inview Technology Corp., USA
*Michel Meunier, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
*Sergey B. Mirov, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
*Jesper Moerk,Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
*Edward I. Moses, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
*Sae Woo Nam, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
*Daniel R. Neal, Abbott Laboratories, USA
*Nathan R. Newbury, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
*Alan C. Nilsson, Infinera, USA
*Isao Noda, Procter & Gamble Company, USA
*Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Tufts University, USA
*Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow, Scotland
*Loukas Paraschis, Cisco Systems, USA
*Adrian Podoleanu, University of Kent, England
*Clifford R. Pollock, Cornell University, USA
*Stephen M. Pompea, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, USA
*Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia
*Colin J.R. Sheppard, National University of Singapore, Singapore
*Wei Shi, NP Photonics, Inc., USA
*Michael Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
*Dmitry V. Skryabin, University of Bath, England
*Sergei K. Turitsyn, Aston University, England
*Réal Vallée, Centre d’Optique Photonique et Lasers (COPL), Canada
*Niek F. van Hulst, ICFO – Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
*David M. Villeneuve, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
*Alex Vitkin, University of Toronto, Canada
*Ann Von Lehmen, Telcordia, USA
*Willem L. Vos, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
*Stanley E. Whitcomb, LIGO, USA
*Peter J. Winzer, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
*Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Texas A&M University, USA
*Vladimir Zakharov, University of Arizona, USA
*Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
*Shining Zhu, Nanjing University, China

For specific information on each new Fellow member’s accomplishments, please visit www.osa.org/awards_and_grants/default.aspx.

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