2024 EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE AWARD
Professor Emma MacPherson
Warwick University, UK
IRMMW-THz Society Exceptional Service Award
In 2010 the IRMMW-THz Society Board voted to institute an annual award honoring Exceptional Service to the Society and the IRMMW-THz Community at large. This award recognizes a single individual who has contributed continuously, and over a long period of time, to the goals of the IRMMW-THz Society and to the expansion of influence and organization of our technical community. The prize consists of a certificate, a compendium of all past IRMMW-THz conference brochures, and a waiver of the registration fee for attendance at the conference for the year in which the award is given. Nominations are open to anyone from the IRMMW-THz community. Winners are selected by vote of the IRMMW-THz International Organizing Committee at the conference which precedes the award. Nominations are open two months prior to the conference, and consist of a nominee name and affiliation and short write up describing the relevant contributions that would warrant receipt of the award (no CV’s or paper lists, please, this is a Community Service award). Nominations should be sent to the IRMMW-THz General Secretary: Peter H. Siegel at phs@caltech.edu. Winners will be announced at the IRMMW-THz Conference Banquet each year.
THE 2024 RECIPIENT IS: Professor Emma MacPherson of University of Warwick, UK.
The first (2011) recipient of the IRMMW-THz Exceptional Service Award was Professor Rick Temkin of MIT, USA. His dedication reads:
“This compilation of IRMMW conference brochures is dedicated to you, Richard J. Temkin, in grateful recognition of so many years of dedicated service to the conference series, the community which it serves, and the many past, present and future members of the International and Local Organizing Committees. No one in our community has given more and contributed so selflessly to help so many. We are eternally grateful. From your colleagues and friends on the board of the 2010 International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves”
PAST RECIPIENTS:
2023: Professor Xi-Cheng Zhang, University of Rochester, USA
2022: Professor Daniel Mittleman, Brown University, USA
2021: Professor Xue-Shu Shen, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China
2020: Professor Gun-Sik Park, Seoul National University, South Korea
2019: Professor Martin Koch, Marburg University, Germany
2018: Dr. Gian Piero Gallerano, ENEA-Frascati, Rome, Italy
2017: Professor Manfred Thumm, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
2015: Professor Koji Mizuno, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2014: Dr. Peter H. Siegel, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
2013: Professor Michael von Ortenberg, Humboldt University, Germany
2012: Professor Terrence Parker, University of Colchester, UK
2011: Professor Rick Temkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA