OSA
The Optical Society

Advancing the Science and Technology of Light

Award Committees

Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize Committee


  • William T. Rhodes, Florida Atlantic University, United States, Chair
  • Demetrios N. Christodoulides, University of Central Florida, United States
  • Bruce W. Shore, United States
  • Katarina Svanberg, Lund Univ. Medical Laser Center, Sweden
  • Lluis Torner, ICFO, Spain
  • Ken-ichi Ueda, University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Esther Hoffman Beller Award Committee


  • Mary A. Johnson, University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States, Chair
  • Eric Cormier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
  • Prasoon K Diwakar, Purdue University, United States
  • Benjamin J. Eggleton, University of Sydney, Australia
  • John D. Harvey, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Dieter Meschede, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Univ Bonn, Germany

Max Born Award Committee


  • Xiang Zhang, University of California Berkeley, United States, Chair
  • Mark Brongersma, Stanford University, United States
  • Stephen E. Harris, Stanford University, United States
  • Yuri S. Kivshar, Australian National University, Australia
  • Martin William McCall, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • Ulrike K. Woggon, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award Committee


  • Adam P. Wax, Duke University, United States, Chair
  • Thomas M. Baer, Stanford University, United States
  • Johannes Fitzgerald de Boer, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Elizabeth M.C. Hillman, Columbia University, United States
  • David R. Williams, University of Rochester, United States

Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award Committee


  • Anurag Gupta, Google, United States, Chair
  • Duncan Leo MacFarlane, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
  • Henning Rehn, Osram GmbH, Germany

Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize Committee


  • Andrew Robert Harvey, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, Chair
  • Christoph S. Harder, Harder and Partner, Switzerland
  • Hong Hua, University of Arizona, United States
  • Bart Salters, Philips Research Laboratory, Netherlands
  • Ching-Cherng Sun, National Central University, Taiwan
  • Richard Neil Youngworth, Riyo LLC, United States

Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award Committee


  • Harrison H. Barrett, University of Arizona, United States
  • Steven C. Moss, The Aerospace Corporation, United States
  • Bahaa E.A. Saleh, University of Central Florida, CREOL, United States

Nick Holonyak Jr. Award Committee


  • Alfred Leitenstorfer, Universitat Konstanz, Germany, Chair
  • Ann Catrina Bryce, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
  • Harald W. Giessen, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
  • Leslie A. Kolodziejski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  • Minoru Obara, Keio University, Japan
  • Robert Tkach, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, United States

Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award Committee


  • Luiz Davidovich, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Chair
  • Kenneth G.H. Baldwin, Australian National University, Australia
  • Maria L. Calvo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  • Satoshi Kawata, Osaka University, Japan
  • Richard C. Powell, University of Arizona, United States
  • Herbert Graves Winful, University of Michigan, United States

Edwin Land Medal Committee


  • Fredrik Laurell, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden
  • Lenore McMackin, InView Technology Corporation, United States
  • Jannick P. Rolland, University of Rochester, United States
  • Din Ping Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Emmett N. Leith Medal Committee


  • Toyohiko Yatagai, Utsunomiya University, Japan, Chair
  • David Jones Brady, Duke University, United States
  • Lambertus Hesselink, Stanford University, United States
  • Ken Y. Hsu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Christophe Moser, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Ting-Chung Poon, Virginia Tech, United States

Ellis Lippincott Award Committee


  • Mark Henson, Exxon Mobil Chemical Co, United States, Chair
  • Jean-Marie H. Flaud, Universite Paris XII Val de Marne, France
  • Markus W. Sigrist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Adolph Lomb Medal Committee


  • Sabino Chavez-Cerda, Inst Nat Astrofisica Optica Electronica, Mexico, Chair
  • Yoshio Hayasaki, Utsunomiya University, Japan
  • Diana L. Huffaker, University of California Los Angeles, United States
  • Kyunghwan Oh, Yonsei University, South Korea
  • Emma Springate, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
  • Chris Xu, Cornell University, United States

C.E.K. Mees Medal Committee


  • Richard M. De La Rue, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, Chair
  • J. Gary Eden, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
  • David N. Fittinghoff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
  • Ewa M Goldys, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Paulo Alberto Nussenzveig, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

William F. Meggers Award Committee


  • George R. Welch, Texas A&M University, United States, Chair
  • Paul B. Corkum, University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Lene Vestergaard Hau, Harvard University, United States
  • Alfred Leipertz, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • Luis Adolfo Orozco, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
  • Jun Ye, University of Colorado at Boulder JILA, United States

David Richardson Medal Committee


  • Eric Udd, Columbia Gorge Research, LLC, United States, Chair
  • Robert P. Breault, Breault Research Organization Inc, United States
  • R. Edward English, L-3 Communications, United States
  • Robert M. Jopson, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, United States
  • Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, Japan
  • Jim Schwiegerling, University of Arizona, United States

Charles Hard Townes Award Committee


  • James A. Piper, Macquarie University, Australia, Chair
  • Stephen Mark Barnett, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
  • James D. Franson, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States
  • Ingmar Hartl, IMRA America Inc, United States
  • Kaoru Minoshima, Natl Inst of Adv Industrial Sci & Tech, Japan

John Tyndall Award Committee


  • Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Center, Greece
  • Ann C. Von Lehmen, Ericsson AB, United States

Herbert Walther Award Committee


  • David J. Wineland, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States, Chair
  • Randall Hulet, Rice University, United States
  • Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

R.W. Wood Prize Committee


  • Mitra Dutta, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States, Chair
  • Mark A. Anastasio, Washington University in St Louis, United States
  • Shibin Jiang, AdValue Photonics, Inc., United States
  • Sang Bae Lee, Korea Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
  • Leilei Peng, University of Arizona, United States
  • Colin E. Webb, University of Oxford, United Kingdom