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.

Andrea Alù, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, is the 2012 recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award in recognition of his pioneering contributions to optical metamaterials and plasmonic phenomena.

Previous Recipients of the Early Career Achievement Award

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