Dr. Glenn Boreman, Chairman of the Board at Plasmonics, Inc., has been elected to serve as the Vice President of SPIE for the year 2015.
SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics promoting the advancement of new technologies in those fields. Founded in 1955, SPIE has become one of the most prestigious organizations for both industry and academia. Following his tenure as Vice President in 2015, Dr. Boreman will serve as President-Elect in 2016 and President in 2017. Click here to read the full press release and learn more about the organization.
Dr. Boreman served on the faculty for 27 years at University of Central Florida, and was Trustee Chair Professor of Optics, Electrical Engineering, Material Science and Physics at CREOL. He is presently the Chairman of the Department of Physics and Optical Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and serves as Chairman of the Board at Plasmonics, Inc. He received a BS from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, and a PhD from the Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona. He has been a visiting scholar at Imperial College in London, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
His research interests include Infrared detectors and systems, infrared antennas and frequency-selective surfaces, image-quality characterization, and modulation transfer function.