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.

Alberto Salleo, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Early Career Achievement award in recognition of his fundamental and highly influential contributions in large area electronics, polymer thin film transistors, and laser/material interactions.

Previous Recipients of the Early Career Achievement Award

2009 - Marc Kuchner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
2008 - Sanjay Krishna, University of New Mexico, USA