CLEO/Europe 2025 Honorees
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CLEO/Europe 2025 Honorees
Optica is proud to recognize the outstanding achievements of our community.
Please join us in congratulating the following honorees recognized during CLEO/Europe 2025.
Herbert Walther Award
The Herbert Walther Award recognizes distinguished contributions in quantum optics and atomic physics as well as leadership in the international scientific community (co-presented with Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft).
Michael Fleischhauer
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
For key contributions in nonlinear quantum optics as well as photonic and atomic quantum technologies - in particular for the development of a toolbox to coherently control multi-level atoms with light, including the concept of dark state polaritons and Rydberg dipole blockade physics
2025 Fellows
Recognizing Optica members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics through distinguished contributions to education, research, engineering, business leadership and society. View a complete list of 2025 Fellows.
Philippe Bouyer
University of Amsterdam and Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
For pioneering work on ultra-cold atoms and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, leading to quantum sensors based on atom interferometry
Supriya Chakrabarti
University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
For pioneering developments of optical instrumentation for atmospheric, planetary, and exoplanetary science
Aleksandra Foltynowicz
Umeå University, Sweden
For outstanding and sustained contributions to research in precision molecular spectroscopy and frequency comb spectrometers
Philippe Grelu
Université Bourgogne Europe, France
For groundbreaking contributions in nonlinear photonics including extensive studies of dissipative soliton concepts and dynamical instabilities in ultrafast fiber lasers
Brendan Kennedy
The University of Western Australia & Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Australia and Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
For pioneering and significant contributions to the fields of optical elastography and biophotonics in general
Jensen Li
University of Exeter, UK
For pioneering contributions to the science of invisibility and metamaterials
Juan Liu
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
For seminal contributions to 3D holographic displays and diffractive optics
Riccardo Meucci
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica-CNR, Florence, Italy
For pioneering contributions to chaos in lasers, infrared holography, and its applications
Dmitry Turchinovich
Universität Bielefeld, Germany
For fundamental contributions to the physics of graphene and magnetic materials, particularly for the demonstration of the thermodynamic model of graphene conduction and the development of terahertz magnetometry
Frederique Vanholsbeeck
The University of Auckland and The Dodd Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand
For leadership in optics and biophotonics research, education, and diversity in New Zealand and Australia
Robert J. Zawadzki
University of California Davis, USA
For introducing and developing the technique of adaptive optics with OCT (AO-OCT) for structural and functional eye imaging
