SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced the appointment of Michael Eismann of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory as Editor-in-Chief of Optical Engineering, effective August 1. The journal is published by SPIE.
Optical Engineering publishes papers reporting on research and development in optical science and engineering and the practical applications of known optical science, engineering, and technology.
Eismann succeeds Ronald Driggers of St. Johns Optical Systems, who served as Editor-in-Chief from January 2010 through June 2014.
Eismann is the senior scientist for electro-optical and infrared sensors at the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He is an internationally recognised authority on passive infrared imaging and hyperspectral remote sensing, and continues to perform both basic and applied research in these areas.
Additionally, he serves as an adjunct professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology and as chairman of the Optics Technology Focus Group for the Sensors and Electronics Technology panel of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Before joining AFRL in 1996, he was employed by the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, where he was involved in research concerning active and passive optical and infrared targeting and reconnaissance, optical information processing, and holographic optics.
A Fellow of SPIE, Eismann is a member of the SPIE Board of Directors and has served as symposium chair for SPIE DSS Defense + Security. He is the author of an SPIE Press monograph entitled Hyperspectral Remote Sensing.
