
Since 2000, OSA has sponsored over 100 trips through the OSA Fellow Lecturer Program reaching students and scientists in over 43 developing nations. Learn how to apply for this program.
Below is a list of recently approved or completed trips.
2020 Trips
Valery Tuchin, Saratov State University, Russia
India: Bangalore, Manipal, Kolkata, Meerut
2019 Trips
Rajesh Menon, University of Utah, USA
India: Koch, Kerala, Thrissur
Domenico Bonaccini Calia, European Southern Observatory, Germany
Colombia: Bogotá
Zeev Zalevsky, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Peru: Lima
Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan, University of Waterloo, Canada
Tunisia: Tunis, Carthage
Ravinder Jain, University of New Mexico, USA
India: Delhi, Madras, Bombay
2018 Trips
Jagdish Singh, Mississippi State University, USA
India: Dhanbad, Assam, Haryana, Jammu, Bombay
Domenico Bonaccini Calia, European Southern Observatory, Germany
Colombia: Bogotá
Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ecuador: Quito
Federico Rosei, INRS Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Canada
Rwanda: Kigali and South Africa: Cape Town
Po Dong, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
China: Shanghai and Hangzhou
2017 Trips
Colin Sheppard, University of Wollongong, Australia
Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou; Cote d'Ivoire: Yamoussoukro; Ghana: Cape Coast
Juan Miñano, Univ Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Peru: Lima
Silvano Donati, University of Pavia, Italy
Taiwan: Tainan, Taipei
Miguel Levy, Michigan Technological University, USA
Peru: Lima
Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Russia: Saratov
Nimmi Ramanujam, Duke University, USA
Peru: Lima
Azizur Rahman, City University of London, UK
Thailand: Bangkok
2016 Trips
Mohammad Alam, University of South Alabama, USA
Bangladesh: Dhaka; Turkey: Istanbul
Alexander Lvovsky, University of Calgary, Canada
Brazil: Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Campinas, Recife
Kirill Larin, University of Houston, USA
Russia, Saratov
Nabeel Riza, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland
Pakistan: Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad
Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Brazil: Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paolo
Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester, USA
Peru: Lima
Mario Marconi, Colorado State University, USA
Argentina: Buenos Aires, Villa Martelli, Gonnet
2015 Trips
Gregory Quarles, Opto-Electronic Management Agency, USA
Romania: Bucharest; Russia: St. Petersburg; Ukraine: Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk
Gabriel Popescu, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Romania: Bucharest
Silvano Donati, Univ of Pavia, Italy
Indonesia: Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia: Serdang
Luis Orozco, Univ of Maryland, USA
Mexico: Guadalajara & Puebla
Marvin Klein, Optech Ventures, USA
Brazil: São José dos Campos, Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, Curitiba
Nicholas Bigelow, Univ of Rochester, USA
India: Bangalore & Delhi