BELLINGHAM, Wash.- SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics , is pleased to welcome 47 new members to the Society’s Fellows. They join a class of Fellows recognized for outstanding technical achievements and significant contributions to the optics and photonics community and to SPIE. Fellows are members who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the interdisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. More than 1,800 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society’s founding in 1955.

“I am pleased to welcome our new SPIE Fellows and salute their technical achievements and dedication to SPIE and the broader optics and photonics community. My colleagues on the SPIE Fellows Committee join me in congratulating our new SPIE Fellows for their outstanding achievements in the field of optics and photonics and their impactful contributions to SPIE.”

This year’s nominees are distinguished leaders from academia, industry, and government, many of whom have distinguished themselves by their support of the optics and photonics communities and their mentoring of others. The 2025 Fellows include Jeremy Voss , Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University; Sona Hosseini , Research and Instrument Scientist, Planetary Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Martin Ettenberg , Founder and CTO, Princeton Infrared Technologies; Mikhail Katz, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison and active advocate in the photonics community; Darren Robleyer , Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University and Editor-in-Chief of the SPIE journal Biophotonics Discovery ; and Katie Schwartz , Senior Manager, Edmund Optics and recipient of the 2024 SPIE Chairman’s Award. Tsu-Te Judith They include Su, associate professor of biomedical engineering and optical science in the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, and Jess Wade , a research fellow and lecturer in functional materials at the Royal Society University of Imperial College London and chair of SPIE’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Dr. Peter E. Andersen of the Technical University of Denmark, Chair of the SPIE Fellows Committee , said, “We are pleased to welcome our new SPIE Fellows and salute their technical achievements and dedication to SPIE and the broader optics and photonics community. My colleagues on the SPIE Fellows Committee join me in congratulating our new SPIE Fellows for their outstanding achievements in the field of optics and photonics and their impactful contributions to SPIE.”

New Fellows will be recognized at their chosen SPIE Symposium this year. The complete list of 2025 SPIE Fellows is available online , along with a list of all SPIE Fellows and the nomination criteria .

About SPIE

SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics, brings together engineers, scientists, students, and business professionals to advance light-related science and technology. Founded in 1955, the society connects and engages with a global constituency through industry-leading conferences and exhibitions, conference proceedings in the SPIE Digital Library, book and journal publications, and career advancement opportunities. In the past five years, SPIE has provided more than $25 million to the international optics community through awareness and support in the form of scholarships, educational resources, travel grants, endowments, and public policy development. www.spie.org .

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