Fellow Lecturer Trips

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.

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

Trip Highlights

Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA visited and gave presentations at two universities in Ecuador, one at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and the other at the Escuela Politecnica Nacional (EPN). The fact that USFQ and EPN are well‐respected private and public universities, respectively, gave Professor Toussaint an excellent opportunity to gauge the state of optics research in the country. He met with an OSA student chapter, visited labs, and met with faculty. Everyone was very receptive to meeting an OSA Fellow and exploring ways in which optics researchers at their respective schools could collaborate with their counterparts at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign.

Domenico Bonaccini Calia, European Southern Observatory, Germany, visited the National University of Colombia and Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá. He toured the observatories of these universities and spoke about recent discoveries in astrophysics and satellite communication technologies. He met with students and professors and discussed the possibility of a national solar telescope in Colombia as well as participation in a space weather global network.

Federico Rosei, INRS, Centre for Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Canada participated in two workshops in Kigali, Rwanda—one on women in science and engineering and one on climate change. In addition, he visited the East African Institute for Fundamental Research (EAIFR) and gave two lectures. The first was a technical lecture on multifunctional materials for solar technologies) and the second one was on professional development, focusing on writing papers for scholarly journals.

Po Dong, Nokia Bell Labs, USA, visited Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China. Dr. Dong delivered a few talks on the topic of “silicon photonics integrated circuits” and introduced the latest research development in this field and future research directions. He met professors and graduate students who are working in the field of integrated photonics. He had a chance to meet OSA student chapter in Hanzhou. He also visited the labs and talked with some PhD students on their experiments