Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA) has announced the appointment of Andrea Alù, Olga Korotkova, and Ruikang Wang as the new editors-in-chief of Optical Materials Express, Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A), and Biomedical Optics Express respectively. Each of the Editors-in-Chief will begin their tenure on January 1, 2022.
Alù is the founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at The City College of New York, USA. He is affiliated with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the Applied Research Laboratories, both based at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor. His research interests span a broad range of technical areas, including applied electromagnetics, nano-optics and nanophotonics, microwave, THz, infrared, optical and acoustic metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, nonlinearities and nonreciprocity, cloaking and scattering, acoustics, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas. He takes over the editor-in-chief position from Alexandra Boltasseva, who led the journal from 2016 through 2021.
Korotkova is a professor in the Physics department at University of Miami, USA. Her research runs from the intrinsically theoretical to purely practical and covers coherence and polarization of light; wave propagation and scattering in random and complex media; beam propagation in atmospheric and oceanic turbulence; laser communications and lidar systems; light propagation and scattering in human tissue; and medical imaging, microscopy and tomography. She has significant editorial experience having been a topical editor for Optics Letters for six years, as well as an associate editor for OSA Continuum. She takes over the Editor-in-Chief position from P. Scott Carney, who led the journal from 2016 through 2021.
Wang is a professor with appointments in the departments of bioengineering and ophthalmology and directs the Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory at the University of Washington, USA. His research interests include functional optical imaging using coherence gating and confocal gating techniques; photoacoustic imaging; laser Doppler, speckle and intrinsic optical signal imaging; optical biopsy and functional imaging in tissue engineering; and light propagation in biological tissue. He takes over the Editor-in-Chief position from Christoph Hitzenberger, who led Biomedical Optics Express from 2016 through 2021.
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