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2021 Optica Senior Members

2021 Optica Senior Members

Senior Members are well-established individuals with a designation that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within their field that sets them apart from their peers. Below is a complete listing of the 2021 Class of Senior Members.

Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad
University of Dhaka

Javier Alda
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Zeyad Alwahabi
University of Adelaide

Praveen Arany
State University of New York at Buffalo

Gombojav Ariunbold
Mississippi State University

Mark Auslender
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Ajanta Barh
DTU Electro

Kipp A Bauchert
Perkins Precision Developments

Mina Bionta
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Prem B Bisht
Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Nikita M Bityurin
Institute of Applied Physics of the RAS

Nadia Giovanna Boetti
Fondazione LINKS

Guido Bolognesi
University College London

David Borlaug
The Aerospace Corporation

Yehuda Braiman
University of Central Florida

Pierre-Francois Brevet
Universite Lyon 1

Maruthi Manoj Brundavanam
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Steve Buckley
GeologicAI

John Huszagh Burnett
National Inst of Standards & Technology

Alexander Bykov
University of Oulu

Andrea Camposeo
Istituto di Nanoscienze Modena, CNR

Andrea Carena
Politecnico di Torino

Alberto de Castro
Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas

Hengky Chandrahalim
Air Force Institute of Technology

Zhenyue Chen
Tongji University

Zhangyuan Chen
Peking University

Marc P Christensen
Clarkson University

Robert John Collins


Claudio Coriasso
Lumibird

Kristan L Corwin
NIST Boulder

Jean-Charles Cotteverte
Laser Quantum Ltd

Helder M Crespo
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Ilaria Cristiani
Universita degli Studi di Pavia

Alberto González Curto
Ghent University - imec

Vladimir Vasilievich Danilov
St. Petersburg State Transport Univ

Olivier Deparis
Universite de Namur

Fei Ding
Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

Yong Kang Dong
Harbin Institute of Technology

Yossef Ehrlichman
Axalume, Inc.

Kai Engelhardt
OPTI-KEN / FabuLens GmbH

Andrey B Evlyukhin
Leibniz University Hannover

Valery Filippov
Ampliconyx

Steven Fiorino
Air Force Institute of Technology

Maria Teresa Flores-Arias
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Boyd Fowler
Omnivision Technologies

Eric FREYSZ
Université de Bordeaux

Michael B Frish
Physical Sciences Inc.

Yuxi Fu
Xi'an Inst of Optics and Precision Mech

Seiji Fukushima
Kagoshima University

Martin Lopez Garcia
Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas

Thomas A Germer
National Inst of Standards & Technology

Hassen Ghalila
LSAMA Lab University Tunis ElManar

Faezeh Gholami
International Business Machines Corp

Mher Ghulinyan
Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Alexander V Goncharov
University of Galway

William Robert Graver
Leidos

Niels Gregersen
DTU Electro

Rainer Hainberger
Austrian Institute of Technology

Vincent Handerek
V8 Photonics Ltd.

John James Healy
University College Dublin

Dirk Corwe Heinecke
SpaceTech GmbH

Carlos Hernández-García
Universidad de Salamanca

Christopher Holmes
University of Southampton

Richard F Horton
ad hoc Optics LLC

Xiaolong Hu
Tianjin University

Mohamed Hussein
Univ Karlsruhe Light Technology Inst

William Shensky, III
US Army Research Laboratory DEVCOM

Takaaki Ishigure
Keio University

Matthew Jenkins
Amazon Kuiper

Naibo Jiang
Spectral Energies LLC

Masahiko Jinno
Kagawa University

Kenneth Knappenberger, Jr.
Pennsylvania State University

Robert Alvin Marsland, Jr.
Intraband LLC

Boubacar Kante
University of California Berkeley

Irmantas Kasalynas
Ctr for Physical Sciences & Technology

Efstratios Kehayas
G&H

Kedar Khare
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Masato Koike
National Institutes for Quantum and Radi

Katarzyna Komar
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika

John Koshel
Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences

Amitesh Kumar
Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad

Dharmendra Kumar
Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur

Rajesh Kumar
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Jun Ho Lee
Kongju National University

Matthew D Lew
Washington University in St Louis

Wen-Di Li
University of Hong Kong

Jinyang Liang
Institut National de la Recherche Sci.

Carlo Liberale
King Abdullah Univ of Sci & Technology

Igor Anatolievich Litvin
Freie Universität Berlin

Yueai Liu
Aaren Labs

Fang Liu
Tsinghua University

Christopher Graeff Lowrie
L3 Harris Technologies

Hanne Ludvigsen
Aalto Yliopisto

Ming Ronnier Luo
Zhejiang University

Gregory G Luther


Tom Mackay
University of Edinburgh

R. Uma Maheswari
Shibaura Institute of Technology

Kristen Carlson Maitland
Texas A&M University

Arka Majumdar
University of Washington

Wai-Sing Man
Amonics Ltd

Alberto M Marino
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rainer Martini
Stevens Institute of Technology

Dale Herman Martz
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Vyacheslav Vasil'evich Maslov
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Cushla M McGoverin
University of Auckland

P Susthitha Menon
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Gary Miller
US Naval Research Laboratory

Joseph D Miller
US Air Force Research Laboratory

Rainer Minixhofer Minixhofer
Technische Universität Graz

Katsuhiko Miyamoto
Chiba University

Nelson Jesus Muga
Universidade de Aveiro

Phyllis R Nelson
California State Polytechnic University

Yoshiaki Nishijima
Yokohama National University

Kanagaraj Nithyanandan
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Sara Núñez-Sánchez
Inst de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid

John O'Hagan


Mehmet Cengiz Onbasli
Koç Universitesi

Mang Ou-Yang
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Irina Georgievna Palchikova
Novosibirsk State University

Ravi Pant
IISER Thiruvananthapuram

Nick J Parsons
Huber+Suhner AG

Ashwin B Parthasarathy
University of South Florida

Ajeetkumar Patil
Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Nicolaie Ion Pavel
Natl Inst Lasers Plasma & Radiation Phys

Romuald Pawluczyk


Romain Peretti
Ecole Centrale de Lyon

Gale S Petrich


Christoph Pfistner
Avicena Tech Corp

Andreas Poppe
PoppeQ

Marcel Poulain
Le Verre Fluore

Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard
Université Laval

Coorg R Prasad
Science and Engineering Services LLC

Bing Qi
NYU Shanghai

Yufu Qu
Beihang University

Jessica C Ramella-Roman
Florida International University

Peter John Reece
University of New South Wales

Henning Rehn
Consultant

Vitor Manuel Costa Ribeiro
Kets Quantum Security Ltd

Ubbo Ricklefs
TH-Mittelhessen

Daniel J Ripin
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Francesco Da Ros
DTU Electro

Yuri Rostovtsev
University of North Texas

Jose Manuel Medina Ruiz


Jayshri Sabarinathan
Western University

Emilio Hugues Salas
British Telecom (BT)

Ertan Salik
California State Polytechnic University

Fernando Mendoza Mendoza Santoyo
Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC

Angelo Sassaroli
Tufts University

Ingrid Scheel
Multnomah Falls Research

Christof Schulz
Universität Duisburg-Essen

Shankar Kumar Selvaraja
Indian Institute of Science

Paramasivam Senthilkumaran
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Yu Gang Shee
Monash University Malaysia

Zhimin Shi
Meta Reality Labs Research

Shobha Shukla
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Vasyl Shynkar
Essilor Instruments

Hannah Elizabeth Smithson
University of Oxford

Ramesh Kumar Sonkar
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Pablo Martin, Sr.
Universidad de Antofagasta

B.C. Choudhary, Sr.
NITTTR, Chandigarh

Frederic E Ferrieu, Sr.
OPTICNANO

Judith Su
Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences

Xuantao Su
Shandong University

Ganapathi Subramania
Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque

Ryan James Suess
Meta

Thibaut Sylvestre
FEMTO-ST

Morio Toyoshima
National Inst of Information & Comm Tech

Wan-Shao Tsai
National Chung Hsing University

Gianluca Valentini
Politecnico di Milano

Ventsislav K Valev
University of Bath

Laszlo Veisz
Umea University

Andreas Udo Velten
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maria Vinas
Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas

David Vitali
Universita di Camerino

Alexis KS Vogt
Monroe Community College

Daodang Wang
University of Arizona

Brian R Washburn
National Inst of Standards & Technology

Ruwan Udayanga Weerasuriya
Chalmers Tekniska Högskola

Daniel van der Weide
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Benjamin Wetzel
XLIM UMR CNRS - UNIVERSITE / AVRUL

Natalie Violet Wheeler
University of Southampton

David J Wilkes


Christof Wunderlich
Universität Siegen

Tian Yang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Timothy M Yarnall
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bing Yu
Marquette University

Mohd Saiful Dzulkefly Zan
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Cheng Zhang
Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology

Delong Zhang
Zhejiang University

Chao Zhao
Institute of Semiconductors CAS

Yiming Zhu
Univ of Shanghai Science & Technology

Jinfeng Zhu
Xiamen University

Chao Zuo
Nanjing Univ of Science and Technology

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