The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its members have elected Dr. Satoshi Kawata, professor emeritus of Osaka University and honorary scientist at RIKEN, both in Japan, as the society’s 2020 Vice President.
Two directors-at-large were also chosen during this year’s election: Dr. Polina Bayvel, University of London, U.K., and Dr. Gerd Leuchs, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany. The announcement was made during OSA’s Annual Business Meeting at the 2019 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO + LS) conference held September 15-19 in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
By accepting the vice presidency, Kawata makes a four-year commitment to OSA’s Board of Directors. He will serve one year as vice president in 2020, followed by one year as president-elect in 2021, president in 2022 and past president in 2023.
Along with Kawata, the new directors-at-large, Bayvel and Leuchs, will begin their terms on January 1, 2020. They will hold their positions for three years.
Dr. Satoshi Kawata joined the Department of Applied Physics of Osaka University in 1981 where he currently serves as a professor emeritus. Kawata founded the Photonics Advanced Research Center (PARC) at Osaka University in 2007, where he was executive director until 2016. Kawata also led a research group on nanophotonics as a chief scientist in RIKEN from 2002 to 2015 and now serves as an honorary scientist. He founded two companies, one of which is a laser-scanning Raman microscope company, Nanophoton, established in 2002, where he has been the chairman.
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