The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its members have elected Philip Russell of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany as its 2013 vice president. Three directors at large were also chosen during this year's election: Susana Marcos of Instituto de Optica, CSIC, in Spain, Lynn E. Nelson of AT&T Labs in Middletown, N.J., and Gregory J. Quarles of B.E. Meyers and Co., Inc. in Redmond, Wash.
By accepting the vice presidency, Russell makes a four-year commitment to OSA's Board of Directors. As vice president, he will automatically become president-elect in 2014 and then the society's president in 2015, followed by a one-year term as past president.
Russell served on the OSA Board of Directors from 2007 to 2009, where he also served on the Finance Committee. He is also a past member of OSA’s Publications Long-Term Planning Group and Tellers Committee. He is the founding chair of the OSA Topical Meeting on Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides, and has also served on the program committees for OSA's Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics meeting and Ultrafast Phenomena meeting.
Russell is a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany and holds the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Chair in Experimental Physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Along with Russell, the new directors at large, Marcos, Nelson, and Quarles, will begin their terms on January 1, 2013. They will hold their positions for three years.
