The Early Career Scientist Prize in Optics Medal
Deadline 15th April. See the details below.
This prize is awarded annually since 2008 by IUPAP through ICO to a scientist who has made noteworthy contributions to applied optics and photonics during a maximum of 8 years of research experience after having earned a PhD degree. Career interruptions will not be counted as time of research experience.
The prize includes:
BEFORE 15th APRIL:
An email with all the documents must be send by the nominator to the chair person of the ICO-IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics: Prof. Yaseera Ismail
(yaseeraismail@sun.ac.za)
DOCUMENTS TO BE SENT:
Early Career Scientist Prize in Optics Medal
Golden Book
List of the winners of the Early Career Scientist Prize in Optics Medal in reverse chronological order
2024
Utso Bhattacharya, Switzerland
“”For advances in non-equilibrium dynamics, quantum simulations, and the theoretical modeling of experimental data.””.
2023
Carlos A. Ríos-Ocampo,
USA
“For pioneering the integration of phase change mate-rials with photonic integrated circuits for a wide range of applications”.
2022
Chao Zuo,
China
“For his work on the Development of Novel Computational Optical Imaging and Measurement Technologies”.
2021
Giulia F. Mancini,
Italy
“For contributions to imaging and scattering of nanostructured materials using high- harmonic soft X-ray sources and research on extreme ultraviolet imaging”.
2020
Bhavin Shastri, Canada
“For his pioneering contributions to Neuromorphic Photonics”.
2019
Chao-Yang Lu, China
“For significant contributions to optical quantum sciences”.
2018
Can Bayram, USA
“For the first time, revolutionizing the way graphene has been employed in optics and photonics”.
2017
Giulia Grancini, Switzerland
“For her deep knowledge on photophysical properties and ultrafast light-induced dynamical processes”.
2016
Laura Na Liu, Germany
“For outstanding contributions to nano-optics, nanophotonics, nanoplasmonics, and metamaterials.”
2015
Frank Koppens, Netherlands
“For his remarkable, outstanding, groundbreaking, pioneering and numerous contributions to Nano-Optoelectronics.”
2014
Albert Schliesser, Denmark
“For his outstanding contributions to photonics and optomechanics, in particular by developing a micro-frequency comb and a radio-to-optical mechanical transducer.”
2013
Andrea Alù, USA
“For ground breaking work in metamaterials and plasmonics, and for the introduction of the concept of scattering-cancellation-based metamaterial cloaking.”
2012
Nirit Dudovich, Israel
“For developing a completely new approach to attosecond pulse metrology.”
2011
Goëry Genty, Finland
“For his outstanding contributions in pulse propagation and ultra-fast dynamics in nonlinear optical fibers, particularly his groundbreaking results on supercontinuum generation and nonlinear instabilities.”
2010
Shuang Zhang, United Kingdom
“For his outstanding contributions in metamaterials and plasmonics, particularly for the first demonstration of the double-fishnet structure and for excellent achievements in realization of the first three-dimensional optical negative-index metamaterials.”
2009
Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Germany
“For his outstanding contributions in attosecond physics, particularly for the generation of attosecond pulses and their application for the direct measurement of light waves.”