TASSA's Aydoğan Özcan is awarded the International Commission for Optics Prize

Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, and a Board Director at TASSA, has received the International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize.

Awarded to exceptional researchers under the age of 40, Prof. Ozcan conducts groundbreaking research, mainly in the realm of "biophotonics technologies impacting computational microscopy, and digital holography for telemedicine and global health applications." He is currently leading the Ozcan Research Group at UCLA.

Dr. Özcan's seminal work has been acknowledged numerous times. Being chosen as an MIT 35 under 35, and winning the 2009 Wireless Innovation Project of Vodafone Americas Foundation are a few among his many successes.

As an active member of TASSA, Dr. Özcan was key in the launch of the Young Scholar Awards in the TASSA Conferences, and gathered an outstanding committee of jury members to acknowledge outstanding Turkish academics in the US.

Previous winners include the Nobel Laurette Stefan Hell, and the UNESCO Albert Einstein Medal 2012 recipient Alain Aspect. Founded in 1947, ICO has more than 60-member organizations, including the Optical Society, IEEE Photonics Society, and the International Optics Society.