Fiddy Appointed To The Optical Society Board of Directors

Michael Fiddy, professor of physics and optical science and of electrical and computer engineering, has been appointed to a two-year term on The Optical Society Board of Directors, beginning January 2014. Founded in 1916, OSA is the leading professional association in optics and photonics. At present, OSA has more than 18,000 members from 100 countries and nearly 275 student chapters in more than 50 countries. Fifty-three percent of OSA members reside outside of the United States. Over the course of OSA’s nearly one hundred year history, 31 OSA members have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry or Physiology/Medicine.

Fiddy also serves as Deputy Editor of OSA’s newly launched open access journal Photonics Research Journal, its first joint publication with China. He chairs OSA’s Meetings Council and is on the Board of OIDA, the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, which recently became a division of OSA. Fiddy also was founding director of UNC Charlotte’s Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, UNC Charlotte and held the director position from 2002 to 2010. He has been an NSF Industry-University Collaborative Research Center for Metamaterials Site Director since 2011. Fiddy earned his doctorate in physics from the University of London in 1977.