APL Photonics places particular emphasis on recognizing excellence in early career researchers and listening to their perspectives. 2023 will be our fifth year with an Early Career Editorial Advisory Board, and we are pleased to introduce the team’s latest members.
The Early Career Editorial Advisory Board appointees submitted applications last spring and were selected by a committee of Editorial Advisory Board members. The following appointees were selected from the many strong applicants to assist the journal with early career researcher initiatives.
Please join us in welcoming the newest APL Photonics Early Career Editorial Advisory Board members.
Noushin Nasiri, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Noushin Nasiri is a Materials Engineer and the Head of NanoTech Laboratory at Macquarie University. Her vision is to combine multidisciplinary and state-of-the-art techniques in the field of nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, and chemistry to develop innovative nanomaterials that can potentially transform the landscape of nanosensing technologies. She is a skilled science communicator and has presented her research at high-profile events such as TEDx Sydney Salon, TEDx Macquarie University, and TEDx Bligh Street. She is one of Australia’s 2021–2022 Superstars of STEM and the recipient of 2021 Royal Society of New South Wales Warren Prize and 2019 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award.
Peijun Guo, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Peijun Guo is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. Before joining Yale, he received training in materials science, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and energy conversion. Currently, his lab is housed in the Energy Sciences Institute on Yale’s west campus. His research group uses time-resolved optical spectroscopy and microscopy to investigate the excited-state dynamics and the flow of energy in novel materials for applications in energy conversion, optoelectronics, and information science.
Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo is a Colombian scientist working at the intersection of Photonics and Materials Science at the nanoscale. Carlos joined the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. Earlier, Carlos was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, received a DPhil from the University of Oxford (UK), an MSc in Optics and Photonics from the KIT (Germany), and a BSc in Physics from the University of Antioquia (Colombia). Carlos has extensively studied phase-change materials for nanophotonics and contributed to some of the field’s pioneering works. Carlos was elected as a Rising Stars of Light in 2021 by the Journal of Light: Science&Applications.
Hongbao Xin, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
Dr. Xin is currently a professor and Vice Director of the Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He received his BS degree (2011) and Ph.D. degree (2016) at Sun Yat-sen University. After graduation, he continued his research at the University of California, Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore. He joined Jinan University in 2018. His research interests focus on biophotonics, such as optical tweezers for bio-optical manipulation, bio-micromotor/robot for bio-regulation, and plasmonic nanoantenna for bio-detection. He has published about 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, in Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Light: Science&Applications, Nano Letters, etc.
Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Cristina Benea-Chelmus is an Assistant Professor of Microengineering at EPFL since January 2022. Her group focuses on fundamentals and applications of hybrid photonics for generation and detection of terahertz waves, sub-cycle quantum metrology, flat active photonics, and light shaping. She is also a Research Associate with Professor Federico Capasso at Harvard University. Prior to her appointment, she was a postdoctoral scientist at Harvard University, USA. She led efforts on tunable metasurfaces by nonlinear optics. She received her Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in terahertz quantum optics where she developed an ultra-sensitive metrology technique that she applied to vacuum field fluctuations. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (2010) and a Master Degree in Optics and Photonics (2013)—both from KIT, Germany.
We look forward to working with these exceptional scientists over the next two years as members of our valued advisory board.
We encourage you to apply for a seat on the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board next year. For more information about eligibility, please visit our informational website (https://aip.scitation.org/app/info/eceab) or contact us at aplphotonics-journalmanager@aip.org.
