The ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award
Deadline extended to 20th January. See the details below.
ICO and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics have agreed to establish a joint prize reserved for researchers from developing countries (as defined by the United Nations) less than 40 years old (on 1st December of the year for which the award is given), who are active in research in Optics and have contributed to the promotion of research activities in Optics in their own or another developing country.
The prize includes:
BEFORE 20 th January
An email with all the documents must be send by the nominator to the chair person of the ICO Award: Prof. Nathalie Westbrook (nathalie.westbrook@institutoptique.fr)
DOCUMENTS TO BE SENT:
ICO-ICTP Gallieno Denardo Award
Golden Book
List of the ICO-ICTP Gallieno Denardo awardees in reverse chronological order
2023
Muhammad Q. Mehmood, Pakistan
“For his remarkable contributions to the field of Nano-optics and Meta-Photonics; and for inspiring many young researchers in Pakistan through quality research, mentorship, community services, and outreach activities”.
2022
Venkata R. Supradeepa, India
“For his significant contributions to the field of high power fiber lasers and integrated nonlinear optics, including cascaded Raman fiber lasers, high power supercontinuum laser sources, and on-chip frequency combs”.
2021
David Hayrapetyan, Armenia
“For his breakthrough contributions to the theory of semiconductor nano-systems, as well as his promotion of optics and photonics in Armenia under difficult circumstances”.
2020
Kok Sing Lim, Malaysia
“For his achievements in the field of optical fibre sensing and optical communications, and his substantial contributions to sustainable development in Malaysia through promoting the use of optics-based technologies in the industrial sector.”
2019
Muhammad Faryad, Pakistan
“For his contributions to the understanding of light interaction with nanostructured materials, and applications in the area of optical surface waves, solar cells, optical metamaterials and the modelling of wave propagation in nanostructured media”.
2019
Christian T. Schniegelow, Argentina
“For demonstrating chiral beams or beams with orbital angular momentum”.
2018
Urbasi Sinha, India
“For her pioneering research in photonic quantum technologies, contributions to cutting-edge experimental research in quantum optics, and extensive and multifaceted outreach activities towards popularizing experimental optical science in India”.
2017
Goutam K Samanta, India
“For his significant contributions to the field of nonlinear optics, lasers and quantum optics, as well as his efforts in popularizing science among school students in India.”
2016
Mati Horprathum, Thailand
“For his valuable contributions in the development of optical thin-film technology for innovative surface functionality as well as for his commitment in the diffusion of optical thin-film research in Thailand.”
2016
Jehan Akbar, Pakistan
“For his breakthrough contributions in the design and fabrication of high performance semiconductor lasers and amplifiers as well as for promotion of research activities in optics and photonics in Pakistan.”
2015
Rajan Jha, India
“For his breakthrough contributions in the modelling, design and development of high-performance optical sensors and waveguides as well as for promotion of research activities in optics and photonics in India”.
2015
Rim Cherif, Tunisia
“For her achievements in the field of nonlinear optics and in particular for her valuable contributions to the design of highly nonlinear fibers for supercontinnuum generation, as well as for her active commitment aimed at the diffusion of research in optics and photonics in Tunisia.”
2014
John Fredy Barrera Ramírez, Colombia
“For his breakthrough contributions to the field of Optical Encryption and its potential applications, as well as his promotion of research and training in optics in Colombia, and dedication to public outreach.”
2014
M. Florencia Pascual-Winter, Argentina
“For her creative theoretical and experimental investigation of original schemes for coherent coupling of optical and microwave interactions in quantum memories for light, and for her commitment to the expansion of the scope of scientific collaboration between diverse research groups.”
2013
Mohammad D Al-Amri, Saudi Arabia
“For his pioneering research in the field of optical lithography and microscopy, quantum teleportation and multi-qubit systems, and the reversal of weak measurements in optical systems, as well as for his leadership role in establishing a quantum optics research program at KACST, Saudi Arabia under difficult circumstances.”
2012
Selçuk Akturk,Turkey
“For his valuable work in the field of ultrashort optical pulses and in particular for his contributions to the development of ultrashort pulse characterization techniques and their applications to ultrafast nonlinear optics”.
2011
Ryan Balili, Philippines
“For his pioneering work in the trapping and condensation of polaritons, providing an important new system in which quantum coherence can be studied, and having potential applications in quantum information processing.”
2011
Iván Moreno, Mexico
“For valuable contributions to optics in the field of radiometry and photometry of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that have significantly impacted the design of systems that use such LEDs.”
2010
Cleber Mendonça, Brazil
“For the development of novel methods and procedures of nonlinear optics, in particular the use of femtosecond pulses and femtosecond laser micro-fabrication in polymers for investigating nonlinear optical properties of organic compounds, and for establishing effective interdisciplinary collaborations within Brazil”.
2009
Saifollah Rasouli, Iran
“For his creative implementation of Moirè interferometry to fiber optics, optical metrology, and atmospheric optics, including measurements of turbulence parameters, and possible applications to wavefront distortion compensation in adaptive optics systems”.
2008
Mourad Zghal, Tunisia
“For his original work in the development of numerical modeling techniques for photonic crystal fibres, microstructured optical fibres, polarization, and for his active commitment aimed at the diffusion of research in optics in Africa.”
2007
Svetlana Boriskina, Ukraine
“For her original work in the development of numerical modeling techniques for optoelectronic devices, micro-optical resonators, dielectric lenses and waveguides and for her active commitment aimed at the diffusion of research in optics in Ukraine”.
2006
Héctor Manuel Moya-Cessa, Mexico
“For his outstanding research activities on the foundation of Quantum Optics and for his involvement in organizational activities aimed at diffusing the interest on Quantum Optics in Latin America”.
2005
Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn, Thailand
“For developing an optical touch switch based on total internal reflection (TIR) to be used by disable persons”.
2004
Revati Nitin Kulkarni, India
“For her contributions in the field of Adaptive Optics”.
2004
Imrana Ashraf Zahid, Pakistan
Dr. Imrana Ashraf Zahid from Quaid-I-Azam University, Pakistan, was awarded for her contributions in the field of Quantum and Atom Optics and Lasers.
2003
Robert Szipöcs, Hungary
“For his research on femtosecond nonlinear pulse propagation in microstructured optical fibers, femtosecond time resolved spectroscopy and two-photon microscopy”.
2002
Alphan Sennaroglu, Turkey
“For his work on spectroscopic investigation of new laser media”.
2001
Fernando Pérez Quintián, Argentina
“For his work in light scattering, metrology, laser ultrasonics and interferometry”.
2001
Arashmid Nahal, Iran
“For his wroks on the influence of the polarization on radiation-induced formation of spontaneous periodic structures in thin photosensitive films”.
2000
Arbab Ali Khan, Pakistan
“For implementing quantum logic gates operating on atomic scattering by standing wave field in Bragg regime”.