Boreman elected to SPIE leadership

Glenn Boreman, chair of the Department of Physics and Optical Science, recently was named the 2015 vice president of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, effective Jan. 1.

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.

In being elected SPIE vice president, Boreman joins the organization’s presidential chain; he will serve as president-elect in 2016 and as the society’s president in 2017.

As a SPIE member, Boreman has served on several planning committees, and he is a long-time instructor of the course “Basic Optics for Engineers.” He is the author of the SPIE press book “Basic Electro-Optics for Electrical Engineers” and coauthor of the graduate textbook “Infrared Detectors and 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.

A graduate of the University of Rochester, Boreman completed a 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.