Early Career Achievement Award

SPIE Early Career Achievement Award is given annually to an early career professional in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions to any of the engineering or scientific fields of interest to SPIE. The award will be presented at an SPIE Conference devoted to the early career professional's field. Honorarium $2,000.

The nomination eligibility and selection criteria are slightly different from the other SPIE Awards. To find out more, please see the Early Career Achievement Award nomination criteria.

Timothy J. White, US Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA, is the 2013 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award in recognition of his innovative work in the development of light responsive materials and their employment as smart, remotely cued optically and mechanically adaptive devices.

Previous Recipients of the Early Career Achievement Award

2012 - Andrea Alù, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
2011 - Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2010 - Alberto Salleo, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
2009 - Marc Kuchner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
2008 - Sanjay Krishna, University of New Mexico, USA