APL Photonics is the home for fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research anchored in photonics and the platform for next-generation innovations in the field. As such, it is vitally important for the journal to seek input from excellent and promising early career workers and recognize excellent work by early career researchers in the field. Below we announce two new initiatives to increase input from and recognition of early career researchers in photonics.
EARLY CAREER EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
The Early Career Editorial Advisory Board will advise the editors of APL Photonics on matters of specific importance to early career researchers, on the scientific and educational content of the journal, and on matters of editorial policy. The board members will be promising photonics researchers within ten years of their Ph.D. graduation (excluding career breaks such as maternity or paternity leave, adoption, eldercare, etc.). Five new members will be appointed each year, with a two-year term. We ask that the members attend one webinar with the editors and Editorial Advisory Board per year and one in-person meeting of the Editorial Advisory Board within their two-year term.
APL Photonics invites nominations of researchers who have completed their Ph.D. within the past ten years to the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board. Please nominate yourself or a deserving colleague at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/APLPECEAB.
The deadline for nominations is June 30, 2018. The nominees will be considered and five will be chosen for invitation to the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board by a subset of our Editorial Advisory Board (see the full board at http://aip.scitation.org/app/info/advisory). We will announce the new board members in an editorial in a fall 2018 issue of APL Photonics. The term of the new Early Career Editorial Advisory Board members will officially begin in January 2019.
APL PHOTONICS FUTURE LUMINARY AWARD
“Luminary” is defined by the Oxford Living Dictionary1 as follows:
A person who inspires or influences others, especially one prominent in a particular sphere.
A natural light-giving body, especially the sun or moon.
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An artificial light.
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The APL Photonics Future Luminary Award will recognize the achievements of highly promising early career researchers with the potential to become luminaries in the field of photonics. The 2018 award will be given to the first author of a paper published in APL Photonics between January 1 and November 30, 2018. Eligible articles published after November 30, 2018 will be considered for the next award cycle. To be considered, the first author must have submitted the paper to APL Photonics prior to or within 10 years of their Ph.D. graduation (excluding career breaks such as maternity or paternity leave, adoption, eldercare, etc.). If you would like to be considered, when you submit your manuscript, please indicate in the submission form that the first author is eligible. We may consider other manuscripts as well, but noting your desire to be considered upon manuscript submission will ensure that we evaluate your article.
The winner of the 2018 award will be chosen by a committee of members of the APL Photonics Editorial Advisory Board and announced in an editorial in 2019. The award comes with a prize of 3000 USD and up to 2000 USD in travel reimbursement to attend the award ceremony in 2019. The winner will also be posted on the APL Photonics website with a biography and small collection of highlighted articles. The winner will be invited to write an Invited Article in APL Photonics (open access article processing fee waived), and invited to join the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board.
If you have questions or comments about the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board or the APL Photonics Future Luminary Award, please contact us at [email protected].
