SPIE Officers and Directors

SPIE is an international organization incorporated as a not-for-profit United States corporation. The Membership operates the Society through an elected Board of Directors, who establish various standing and ad hoc committees to conduct activities of interest to the Membership.

The Board and its Executive Committee also establish policy and strategy, assure that the Society bylaws are followed in the conduct of Society business, and approve the budgets for expenditure of Society resources.

The collective talents of our Members make the Society a powerful force in the scientific community. Shaping the direction of that force are the members of the SPIE Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and standing committees.

SPIE Officers, Board Members and committee chairs can be contacted by emailing governance@spie.org.

Previous Society Officers and Directors can be viewed here

SPIE Officers 2025


Peter de Groot

Zygo Corporation

President

Jennifer Barton

The Univ. of Arizona

Immediate Past President

Julie Bentley

The Institute of Optics, Univ. of Rochester

President-Elect

Cather Simpson

The Univ. of Auckland

Vice President

Jim McNally

StratTHNK Associates LLC

Secretary/Treasurer

SPIE Board of Directors 2025


Samuel Achilefu

The Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr. at Dallas

Director 2024-2026

Jessica DeGroote Nelson

Edmund Optics Inc.

Director 2023-2025

Kishan Dholakia

The Univ. of Adelaide

Director 2025-2027

Keisuke Goda

The Univ. of Tokyo

Director 2024-2026

Deborah Gustafson

Energetiq Technology, Inc.

Director 2025-2027

David Hagan

CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida

Director 2023-2025

Agnes Hübscher

Edmund Optics GmbH

Director 2024-2026

Daewook Kim

Wyant College of Optical Sciences

Director 2024-2026

Paul Montgomery

Lab. des sciences de l'Ingénieur, de l'Informatique et de l'Imagerie

Director 2023-2025

Miles Padgett

Univ. of Glasgow

Director 2023-2025

Nicholas Petrick

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Board Advisor; Chair, Membership and Communities

Brian Pogue

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

Director 2025-2027

Kemao Qian

Nanyang Technological Univ.

Director 2025-2027

Michelle Stock

TracInnovations

Director 2024-2026

Tori Uthe

Edmund Optics Inc.

Board Advisor; Chair, Corporate and Exhibitor Committee

Alexis Vogt

Monroe Community College

Director 2025-2027

Laura Waller

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Director 2023-2025

Sharon Weiss

Vanderbilt Univ.

Board Advisor; Chair, Symposia Committee