Previous Recipients of the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
2018 - Laura Waller
2017 - Maiken H. Mikkelsen
2016 - Jie Yao
2015 - Miriam Vitiello
2014 - Jeremy Nathan Munday
2013 - Timothy J. White
2012 - Andrea Alù
2011 - Aydogan Ozcan
2010 - Alberto Salleo
2009 - Marc Kuchner
2008 - Sanjay Krishna
2018 - Laura Waller
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of her contributions to biomedical and industrial science through development of computational imaging hardware and software for phase retrieval, 3D imaging and partially coherent systems.
2017 - Maiken H. Mikkelsen
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of her seminal contributions to the understanding of light-matter interactions and ultrafast emission dynamics in plasmonic systems.
2016 - Jie Yao
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of his contributions to the investigation of light matter interaction at deep subwavelength scale, and development of optical materials for nanophotonic applications.
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2015 - Miriam Serena Vitiello
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of her outstanding results in research on semiconductor laser sources and electronic high frequency nanodetectors which have opened new frontiers in the Terahertz photonics and optoelectronics fields.
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2014 - Jeremy Nathan Munday
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of his innovative experimental and theoretical work on photonic engineering for solar energy devices and Casimir forces.
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2013 - Timothy J. White
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of his innovative work in the development of light responsive materials and their employment as smart, remotely cued, optically and mechanically adaptive devices.
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2012 - Andrea Alù
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of his pioneering contributions to optical metamaterials and plasmonic phenomena.
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2011 - Aydogan Ozcan
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of his pioneering contributions to non-destructive nonlinear material characterization techniques, nearfield and on-chip imaging, and diagnostic systems.
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2010 - Alberto Salleo
The SPIE Awards Committee has made this recommendation in recognition of his fundamental and highly influential contributions in large area electronics, polymer thin film transistors, and laser/material interactions.
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Sarah Elizabeth Bohndiek, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, is one of two 2019 recipients of the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award - Academic focus - in recognition of pioneering work on optical imaging and spectroscopy, enhanced by the use of X-rays, magnetic resonance and photoacoustics. Of particularly note are the advances made in molecular imaging for cancer research.
Juejun Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, is the second of two 2019 recipients of the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award - Academic focus - in recognition of original contributions to integrated optics and photonics through innovative material and device engineering.
