Prestigious Hagler Fellowship awarded to the Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre

Prestigious Hagler Fellowship awarded to the Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre

Deputy Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) Professor Nikolay Zheludev has received a prestigious Hagler Fellowship from the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University.

Hagler Fellows are selected from among top scholars who have distinguished themselves through outstanding professional accomplishments or significant recognition. It attracts world-class talent to the University and is driven by nominations of National Academy and Nobel-prize calibre researchers that align with the University’s existing strengths and ambitions.

According to the Hagler Institute, the Fellowship was awarded to Nikolay as Deputy Director of the Zepler Institute and Co-Director of The Photonics Institute at Nanyang Technological University Singapore for his role as one of the founding members of the closely interlinked fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics that emerged early in the 21st century at the crossroads of optics and nanotechnology. He has received the Young Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics and the President’s Science Award, Singapore.

Nikolay is a fellow of the European and American Physical Societies, the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Physics. In addition, he is Fellow of the Royal Society and al member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Nikolay’s Fellowship will last for five years and involves a number of visits to Texas A&M and building collaborations with faculty and students at the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering at Texas A&M.

He said: “I am honoured to have received this Fellowship. It is clear evidence of the high international standing of research at Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre and gives us access to collaborations and joint projects with one of the most influential photonics groups in the USA.”