The Optical Society (OSA) has announced three new editors-in-chief. Christoph Hitzenberger, P. Scott Carney and Alexandra Boltasseva have been appointed as the new editors-in-chief of Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of the Optical Society of America A and Optical Materials Express, respectively.
Christoph Hitzenberger, Biomedical Optics Express (BOEx), is associate professor of medical physics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, where he also serves as the vice head of the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Hitzenberger is a Fellow of OSA and is active within the Society. He has served as an Optics Express Associate Editor and as a BOEx Advisory Editor and guest editor. He is currently the Chair for the Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy Program Committee for the OSA BIOMED 2016 conference and Chair of OSA’s Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award Committee. He is the second editor-in-chief of BOEx, following Joseph A. Izatt, professor of biomedical engineering, Duke University, North Carolina, USA, who, as founding editor-in-chief, successfully led the Journal from 2010 through 2015.
P. Scott Carney, Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A), is professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Optical Science Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. Carney is a Fellow of OSA and has served as Deputy Editor of JOSA A since 2014. Prior to his position as Deputy Editor, he served as a Topical Editor for JOSA A and also as Program Chair of OSA’s Frontiers in Optics Program Committee from 2013-2014. Carney takes over the editorial role from Franco Gori, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, who has successfully led the Journal for the last six years.
Alexandra Boltasseva, Optical Materials Express (OMEx), is associate professor in the school of electrical and computer engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, Indiana, USA. She is a Fellow of OSA, and she has served as a Topical Editor for Optics Letters. Boltasseva takes over this role from David J. Hagan, University of Central Florida, Florida, USA, and founding editor-in-chief, who successfully served the Journal since 2011.
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