JEOS:RP section editor Fredrik Laurell elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America

With the motivation "For pioneering contributions to the development of periodically poled materials and important contributions to laser physics and nonlinear optics" the OSA has elected Laurell as a Fellow. The chairman of the Swedish Optical Society, SOS, and professor for laser physics at KTH, Sweden, is not a no-name within the EOS either. Since December 2011 he acts as a section editor for the Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications (JEOS: RP, www.jeos.org), before that he held the position as chairman of the EOS Advisory Committee. 

Fredrik Laurell received his M. Sc. (Electrical Engineering, LTH) and Ph.D. (Physics, KTH) in 1983 and 1990, respectively. During 1990-1991 he was a visiting research scientist at DuPont Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE, USA and during 1992-1993 a project manager at the Institute of Optical Research, Stockholm, Sweden. He was employed as research associate at KTH in 1993, lecturer 1999 and professor of physics in 2001. Since 2006 he is the Deputy Head at the Department of Applied Physics at KTH. He also chairs the Optics section at the Royal Academy of Science and is Deputy Director for ADOPT, the Linneus Centre in Photonics.  Besides he initiated the foundation of PhotonicSweden 2010.

Laurell’s research spans studies of optical materials, nonlinear optics and laser physics. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 journal papers and holds 13 patents. He has also founded 4 companies and received the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics 2003.