SPIE Fellow David L. Andrews, Professor at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, has been elected to serve as the 2019 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. With his election, Andrews joins the SPIE presidential chain and will serve as President-Elect in 2020 and as the society's President in 2021.
SPIE 2018 President MaryellenGiger, from the University of Chicago, made the announcement along with other SPIE election results at the Annual General Meeting of the Society on August 21 during SPIE Optics + Photonics in San Diego. Terms begin January 1, 2019.
Andrews has served on numerous SPIE committees including as current Chair of the Publications Committee, and former Chair of the Symposia Committee. He was an elected member of the SPIE Board of Directors from 2016-2018.
Andrews is the leader of a nanophotonics and quantum electrodynamics research group, and his technical interests include laser interactions, quantum and nonlinear optics, molecular photonics and chirality, structured light, polarization spectroscopy, electro-optics and quantum electrodynamics.
The SPIE nominating committee accepts recommendations for the election slate on an ongoing basis. Directors, who serve a three-year term, are expected to attend and participate in three board meetings each year.
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