SPIE Welcomes 92 New Senior Members
The recognition honors scientific excellence and technical achievements, as well as active participation in the optics community.
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has welcomed 92 new Senior Members from 19 countries. SPIE Senior Members are Society Members of distinction who are recognized for their professional experience and technical accomplishments, their active involvement with the optics community and with SPIE, and for significant performance that sets them apart from their peers.
The newly recognized Senior Members — drawn from across academia, industry, and government — work in a variety of optics-and-photonics-focused areas that include light-matter interactions; biomedical imaging, diagnostics, and monitoring; EUV imaging and architecture; remote sensing; optoelectronics; precision agriculture; optical design and engineering; photonic crystals; optofluidics; nanophotonics, nano-optics, and photonic materials; smart sensing; electromagnetics; entrepreneurship; astrophysics; and opto-mechanical system analysis and design.
With the 2025 cohort of SPIE Senior Members, the Society welcomes a strong representation of accomplished constituents from across the wider optics and photonics community. This year’s new inductees include Jeff Hecht, an optics historian and science-technology writer whose areas of expertise include lasers, fiber optics, and electronics; Meta’s Fenglin Peng, recognized for advancements in virtual reality and novel display technology; Vicky Philipsen of imec, a key contributor to advanced lithography and imaging, and an active participant in the SPIE microlithography community; the University of East Anglia’s Kayn Forbes, recognized for his contributions to structured-light interactions; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Diana Chen, whose work focuses on high-power laser technology, adaptive optics, and bio-imaging optical systems; Michael Brodsky, of the US Army Research Laboratory, with a particular focus on quantum internet; Ulrike Fuchs, of asphericon GmbH, whose work advances innovations in aspheric and freeform surfaces; and Bruce Bigelow, of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization, with achievements in opto-mechanical design as well as his contributions to the optics community as an external reviewer and an SPIE proceedings author.
“I’m delighted to welcome our new Senior Members to the Society,” said 2025 Senior Member Committee Chair and Clemson University Professor and Special Assistant to the Dean Oliver J. Myers. “These engineers and researchers, systems developers, and science communicators are key to our optics and photonics community. They contribute their technical expertise, as well as offering professional and personal support to their colleagues in the wider community. As the Senior Member Committee Chair, I’m excited by the wealth of experience this group brings to our community, across industry, academia, and government.”
Nominations for the 2026 cohort of SPIE Senior Members will be accepted through 1 April 2026. More information and a complete list of new SPIE Senior Members can be found here.
About SPIE
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, brings engineers, scientists, students, and business professionals together to advance light-based science and technology. The Society, founded in 1955, connects and engages with our global constituency through industry-leading conferences and exhibitions; publications of conference proceedings, books, and journals in the SPIE Digital Library; and career-building opportunities. Over the past five years, we have invested more than $25 million in the international optics community through our advocacy and support, including scholarships, educational resources, travel grants, endowed gifts, and public-policy development. www.spie.org.