Person Type: International Honorary Committee

Brian Culshaw is professor emeritus at Strathclyde University, where he served as head of department and vice dean, after joining in 1983 as Professor of Optoelectronics. He is also a director of OptoSci limited, a spin out company established in 1994. He has (too) many years’ experience in the technology, realisation and application of fibre optic sensors in navigation, structural monitoring, biomedicine and environmental assessment. He has also participated in conference organisation and professional society activities including as 2007 President of SPIE. He has previously worked at University College London, Bell Northern Research Ottawa, and Stanford and Cornell Universities.

Senior Scientist, NRL and Science Advisor, OSA At OSA, assists in planning meetings and scientific initiatives while at NRL, currently developing sensors for the Department of Navy. Member National Academy of Engineering, fellow of IEEE and OSA. Early developer of numerous fiber sensors and managed several fiber sensor programs.

Senior Advisor and Fellow of Fujikura, and Fellow of IEICE. He has been engaged in R&D of high performance telecom fibers and specialty fibers for sensing. His recent interest is industrial application of optical fiber sensors.

In 1978, Pierre Ferdinand received an MS degree in physics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), and in 1980 the Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in plasma physics, followed in 1982 by its PhD in physics from the University of Paris XI based in Orsay. In 1990 he received its State PhD (Doctorat d’Etat es Sciences) from the University of Nice, France. From 1980 to 1992, P. Ferdinand worked at the R&D Division of EDF. During this time, he mainly focused on optical-sensing topics such as stabilized optical sources and several OFSs, as the current sensor based on the Faraday effect in a Sagnac interferometer, and the Polarisation reflectometry (POTDR) for distributed sensing. From 1992 to 2015, as a Director of Research, he leads the Optical Measurement Lab. at CEA LIST (Atomic Energy Commission, Laboratory of Technologies and Systems Integration, France), where his researches include Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG), and distributed sensing technologies, for industrial applications devoted to advanced Structure Health Monitoring (SHM). He recently joins a French SME involved in OFS for SHM, and remains scientific advisor for the CEA. Ferdinand holds 30 patents and is the author of a scientific book and several book chapters as co-editor, as well as about 200 research publications and communications on OFS and related subjects. He is a fellow of the French Optical Societies (SFO), and member of both the International OFS Conference and the European Workshop on Optical Fiber Sensors (EWOFS) technical committees. Ferdinand can be reached by e-mail at [email protected]

Head of the Optical Techniques Branch at NRL. His reaseach work covers interferometric fiber sensor systems including acoustic, acceleration and electro-magnatic field sensing as well as the properties of optical sources, multiplexing and interrogation techniques. He has authored and co-authored over 400 technical publications.