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Fellow Profiles
Fellows represent a diverse group of members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics. These profiles let them share their unique stories, advice, and experience with the community.
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Fernando Mendoza Santoyo
Centro de Investigaciones en Optica AC, Mexico
Volker Sorger
George Washington University and Optelligence Company, USA
Antonio Zelaquett Khoury
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Jungwon Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea
Walter Margulis
Rise Acreo AB and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Tayyab Suratwala
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Sergey V. Polyakov
National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA
Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand
Sabino Chavez-Cerda
Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, Óptica y Electrónica, Mexico
Miguel Orszag
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile & Director of the Center for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Universidad Mayor, Chile
Laura Lechuga
Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia, Spain
Kurt Bernardo Wolf
Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca Campus, Mexico
Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Karsten Buse
Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM and University of Freiburg, Germany
Christophe Caloz
Polytechnique Montréal and KU Leuven, Canada and Belgium
Andrea Fratalocchi
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
* Deceased