Councils
Optica’s governance committees and councils focus on strategies, programs and activities that support the organization’s short- and long-term goals. Committee members are nominated by the President-Elect and approved by the Board of Directors. Members generally serve multi-year terms that follow the calendar year, beginning 1 January and concluding 31 December.
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Corporate Engagement Council
Michael Lebby, Lightwave Logic, Inc, United States, Chair
Amy Eskilson, Inrad Optics, United States, Past Chair
Aleksandra Boskovic, Corning Optical Communications, United States
Anjul Loiacono, Infleqtion, United States
Rick Plympton, Optimax Systems Inc, United States
Natarajan Subrahmanyan, Verition Fund Management, United States
Reinhard Voelkel, Focuslight Switzerland SA, Switzerland
Meetings Council
Jens Biegert, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain, Chair
Sterling J Backus, Thorlabs Laser Division Boulder, United States
Judith S Birkenfeld, Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Liangcai Cao, Tsinghua University, China
Aydogan Ozcan, University of California Los Angeles, United States
Takunori Taira, RIKEN / IMS, Japan
Gabrielle M Thomas, Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany
Abbie T Watnik, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
Membership Engagement & Development Council
Dennis W Fantone, Optikos Corporation, United States, Chair
Katherine Calabro, Apple Inc., United States, Past Chair
Amol Choudhary, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Lea Kopf, Tampereen Yliopisto, Finland
W. Y. Sarah Lau, CSIRO Australia Telescope Natl Facility, Australia
Jelena Pesic, Nokia, France
Donn Michael Silberman, Optics Institute of Southern California, United States
Robert Ian Woodward, Toshiba Europe Ltd., United Kingdom
Nominating Council
Arlene Smith, Molex, Inc, United States, Chair
Ekaterina Golovchenko, Lumentum Operations LLC, United States
Satoshi Kawata, Nanophoton Corporation, Japan
Gerd Leuchs, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany
Michal Lipson, Columbia University, United States
Sujatha Ramanujan, Luminate, United States
Ulrike K Woggon, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Public Affairs Council
Jennifer Brookes, US Department of Defense, United States, Chair
Shermineh Rostami Fairchild, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States, Vice Chair
Anthony J Augustine, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
Diana Michelle Bailey, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
Pierre H Chavel, Institut d'Optique, France
Amy Eskilson, Inrad Optics, United States
Christoph S Harder, SwissPhotonics, Switzerland
James D Kafka, MKS Instruments Inc, United States
Jung Soo Park, Google LLC, United States
Donna T Strickland, University of Waterloo, Canada
Publications Council
Susana Marcos, University of Rochester, United States, Chair
Cornelia Denz, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany, Vice Chair
Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University, United States
Alexander L Gaeta, Columbia University, United States
Christoph K Hitzenberger, Medizinische Universität Wien, Austria
Irina Novikova, College of William & Mary, United States
Xi-Cheng Zhang, University of Rochester, United States
Strategic Planning Council
Gisele Bennett, MEPSS LLC, United States
Jens Biegert, ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain
Thomas Metzger, TRUMPF Scientific Laser GmbH + Co KG, Germany
Gabrielle M Thomas, Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany
Ian A Walmsley, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
