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11.1.2022 18:39:07 CET | Business Wire | Press release
The Awards Committee of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics , today announced the recipients of its prestigious annual awards . Honoring transformative advancements in multiple areas — including medicine, astronomy, lithography, optical metrology, optical design, and community leadership — the Society's awards recognize technical accomplishments as well as committed service to SPIE and support of its organizational mission.
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SPIE Gold Medal: Michael Berns
In recognition of his work in bioengineering research and his distinguished career that brought together engineers, physicists, biologists, and physicians to collaborate on ground-breaking discoveries and innovations.
SPIE President's Award: Tuan Vo-Dinh
In recognition of his outstanding and extensive role in SPIE conference leadership, in disparate technical areas, and for his mentorship of early investigators as well as peers.
SPIE Directors' Award: Julie Bentley
In recognition of her outstanding service to the Society in extraordinary ways, including authorship, course instruction, conference program leadership, committee membership, and service on the Board of Directors.
SPIE Mozi Award: Thomas W. Ebbesen
In recognition of his phenomenal contributions to the field of nano-optics, especially the extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays.
SPIE Britton Chance Award in Biomedical Optics: Bruce Tromberg
In recognition of his high-impact translational research and overall leadership in the development of biophotonic technologies for diagnostics and therapeutics.
SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award: Bert Müller
In recognition of his distinguished contributions to 2D and 3D imaging for the challenges of the 21st century, including cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, bioinspired dental repair, and incontinence treatment.
SPIE Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Award in Optical Design: Masato Shibuya
In recognition of his significant contributions to the development of optical design through the invention of phase-shift masks for photolithography, and for laying the foundations of imaging theory based on plane-wave expansions.
SPIE Harrison H. Barrett Award in Medical Imaging: Maryellen Giger
In recognition of her pioneering work in the fields of digital image formation, computer-aided diagnosis, radiomics, and radiogenomics.
SPIE Harold E. Edgerton Award in High-Speed Optics: Mona Jarrahi
In recognition of her pioneering contributions to plasmonic time-domain spectroscopy and imaging systems as well as their scientific and industrial applications.
SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics: Gabriel Popescu
In recognition of his groundbreaking contributions to holography and quantitative phase imaging for biomedical applications.
SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics: Michelle Stephens
In recognition of her technical innovation, mentoring, and exceptional leadership in pursuit of space-based, fundamental measurements of the Earth and Sun, while reducing technological barriers and promoting standards for the advancement of space and airborne optics.
SPIE G. G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization: Alex Vitkin
In recognition of his extensive contributions to tissue polarimetry, including advanced methodology developments for sensitive and robust Stokes and Mueller measurements; polarimetric computational and analytical platforms; and biomedical applications including cardiology, regenerative medicine, glucometry, and breast-cancer margin assessment.
SPIE Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology: Jürgen Czarske
In recognition of his important contributions to computational laser metrology with paradigm changes in fluid dynamics, inspection, aerospace, communication, and biomedicine.
SPIE Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography: Harry J. Levinson
In recognition of his outstanding achievements contributing to our fundamental understanding of advanced lithography process control, especially in the concepts of Image-Log-Slope, Mask defect printability, and thin-film optics optimization.
SPIE Diversity Outreach Award: Qaisar Abbas Naqvi
In recognition of his inspirational attitude and dedication to students, helping transform the lives of women and men from traditionally under-recognized segments of society by supporting their pursuit of higher education and research in optics and related fields.
SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award in Photonics: Shin-Tson Wu
In recognition of his seminal contributions to display and photonic device technologies that led to widespread applications.
SPIE Maiman Laser Award: Bill Krupke
In recognition of his scientific, technical and community leadership, innovation, and numerous seminal results in laser science and technology.
SPIE Early Career Achievement Award — Academic Focus: Bhavin Shastri
In recognition of his pioneering efforts in the field of neuromorphic photonics and his contributions to interdisciplinary research across nanophotonics, unconventional computing, and silicon photonics that pushed the frontiers of machine learning.
SPIE Early Career Achievement Award — Industry/Government Focus: Lionel Clermont
In recognition of his significant achievements in the field of stray light control, particularly his work on the development of the ultrafast time-of-flight imaging characterization method.
SPIE Maria J. Yzuel Educator Award: Rajpal Sirohi
In recognition of his many years of service in the field of optics through leadership, capacity building, and outreach.
SPIE Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award: Ge Wang
In recognition of his pioneering contributions in X-ray and optical molecular tomography, including their coupling for biomedical applications.
The complete listing of all SPIE awards and recipients is available here .
About SPIE
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, brings engineers, scientists, students, and business professionals together to advance light-based science and technology. The Society, founded in 1955, connects and engages with our global constituency through industry-leading conferences and exhibitions; publications of conference proceedings, books, and journals in the SPIE Digital Library; and career-building opportunities. Over the past five years, SPIE has contributed more than $22 million to the international optics community through our advocacy and support, including scholarships, educational resources, travel grants, endowed gifts, and public-policy development. www.spie.org .
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