The international society for optics and photonics SPIE has welcomed 89 new Senior Members from 17 countries. The newly recognized individuals – drawn from across academia, industry, and government – work in a variety of disciplines that include nanophotonics, quantum optics, biomedical engineering, free space optical communications, microscopy, optical systems engineering, medical imaging, lidar, machine learning, optoelectronic devices, microstructured optical fiber technology, astronomical optics, and lithography.

SPIE Senior Members are society members of distinction who are recognized for their professional experience and technical accomplishments, their active involvement with the optics community and with SPIE, and for significant performance that sets them apart from their peers.

Among the new cohort, the Society welcomes a strong representation of women from across the globe, including Rosalind Wynne, director of the Laboratory for Lightwave Devices at Villanova University and an active member of the SPIE Smart Structures community; Imrana Ashraf Zahid, of Quaid-i-Azam University and the first woman in Pakistan to gain a doctorate in quantum optics; Saša Bajt, a group leader at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY; Misty Blowers, CTO of Datalytica; Teri Odom, a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University; Ingrid Udd Scheel, president and founder of Multnomah Falls Research; and Jaione Tirapu Azpiroz, a senior research scientist at IBM Research in Brazil.

“I congratulate and welcome our new SPIE Senior Members,” said Oliver J Myers, 2023 Senior Member Subcommittee chair, an associate professor and associate dean of inclusive excellence for undergraduate studies at Clemson University. “All of them are outstanding researchers, practitioners, and supporters of optics and photonics applications. Their invaluable technical contributions advance our field in innovative ways, and their active engagement with the wider community supports its greater development across the international stage. It is especially gratifying to increase the diversity of Senior Members and the spectrum of research in the optics community. I look forward to helping SPIE become more inclusive in the future.”

The laureates from industry include Richard Horton (Ad Hoc Optics), Mark Maslow and Abhishek Vikram (ASML), Laura Coyle, Brian Hicks, Sarah Lipscy, and Garrett West (Ball Aerospace), Thomas Franz Karl Scheruebl (Carl Zeiss SMS), Xisen Hou and Mingqi Li (DuPont Electronics & Industrial), Henning Rehn (Fisba), Soichi Inoue (Kioxia), Jangsun Kim (Panoptics), Yusuf Bhagat (Pericycle), Jeffrey Nicholson (OFS Fitel), Paul Knutrud (Onto Innovation), Tyler Ralston (Oxford Nanoimaging), Uwe Petzold (Schott), Ingo Bork (Siemens EDA), Kent Nakagawa (Toppan Photomasks), and Wiley Black (Vizgen).