Glenn Boreman, Physics and Optical Science Chair, Elected to SPIE Leadership

Glenn Boreman, who is the chair of the Department of Physics and Optical Science at UNC Charlotte, has been named the 2015 vice president of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, with his term beginning Jan. 1, 2015.

Boreman also is director of UNC Charlotte’s Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications and co-founder and chairman of the board of Plasmonics, Inc. His research interests include Infrared detectors and systems, infrared antennas and frequency-selective surfaces, image-quality characterization, and modulation transfer function.

SPIE 2014 President Philip Stahl announced election results on August 19 at the annual general meeting of the society. Boreman joins the SPIE presidential chain and will serve as president-elect in 2016 and as the society’s prresident in 2017.

Boreman has served on SPIE planning committees, is a long-time instructor of the course “Basic Optics for Engineers,” and is the author of the SPIE Press book Basic Electro-Optics for Electrical Engineers. He is coauthor of the graduate textbook Infrared Detectors and Systems and author of Modulation Transfer Function in Optical & Electro-Optical Systems. He has published more than 100 articles in the areas of infrared detector and focal-plane analysis, optics of random media, infrared scene projection, and transfer-function techniques.

Boreman received his bachelor’s degree in optics from the University of Rochester, and his Ph.D. in optics from the University of Arizona. He has been a visiting scholar at Imperial College in London, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and the Defense Research Agency (FOI) in Linköping, Sweden.

He is a fellow of SPIE, the Optical Society of America, and the Military Sensing Symposia.