Fellowship for University of Glasgow optics and photonics expert

Published: 11 February 2013

Each year, SPIE (international society for optics and photonics) promotes members as new Fellows of the Society. In 2013 SPIE will honor 69 new Fellows of the Society this year.

A University of Glasgow academic has been named as a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

Professor Miles Padgett, Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University, is one of 69 members of the society to be honoured in this year’s round of fellowships in recognition of achievements in the mechanical properties of electromagnetic fields.

Professor Padgett’s work at the University includes the development of an optical spanner, used for manipulating micron-scale cells, and a data-transmission system which uses ‘twisted’ beams of light. His 15-person research team has published over 260 papers in the world’s leading scientific journals and led to numerous commercial developments.

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First published: 11 February 2013