Fotoglass advisor and University of Cantabria professor Fernando Moreno has been named Senior Member of The Optical Society of America (OSA) in recognition of his experience and professional achievements in the field of optics and photonics. The OSA Board of Directors approved last May the list of members of a new membership category, the "Senior Members", which includes 162 names of scientists from all over the world.
To be included in this group, researchers must be active members of the Society and have at least ten years of significant
professional experience Fernando Moreno, Professor of Optics in the Department of Applied Physics and member of the UC Optics Group, is one of the five researchers who have been appointed senior members of the OSA on behalf of a Spanish institution.
UC professor Fernando Moreno, named 'Senior Member' of the American Optical Society
The other four are Ramón Corbalán, from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Rafael Navarro, from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Ignacio Moreno, from the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, and Manuel Melgosa, from the Universidad de Granada.
Founded in 1916, The Optical Society is a scientific, technical and educational organisation that was created with the aim of promoting and disseminating knowledge in the field of optics, both in its pure and applied aspects, as well as promoting cooperation between researchers working in this field and the designers and users of optical devices of all kinds.
