Natalia M. Litchinitser, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, March 1997,
Thesis: Theoretical Investigation of Fiber Bragg Grating Filters for Dispersion Compensation in Optical Communication Systems
M.S., Physics, Moscow State University, 1993
B.S., Physics, Moscow State University, 1991

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, August 2011-
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, January 2008-August 2011
Assistant Research Scientist, Principal Investigator, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, 2004-2007
Member of Technical Staff, Principal Investigator, OFS/Bell Laboratories, 2001-2005
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tyco Submarine Systems, 2000-2001
Aileen S. Andrew Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester, 1997-2000

Fellow of the Optical Society of America
"The OSA Fellow designation is awarded to select OSA Members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of optics. Candidates for Fellow Membership are nominated by peers who are themselves OSA Fellows. The OSA Fellow Members Committee reviews each nomination and recommends candidates to the Board of Directors annually. The number of Fellows is limited by the Society's bylaws to be no more than 10% of the total OSA membership" (from http://www.osa.org/Membership/Member_Categories/Fellow/)
100 R&D Award for Tunable Dispersion Compensating Devices, 2002
Aileen S. Andrew Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1997-1999
New Focus Student Grant, 1996
Aileen S. Andrew Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1997

Memberships:

Conference organizer:

Special Session on Nonlinear Metamaterials, SPIE Optics + Photonics 2011, San Diego, CA, 2011
Nonlinear Metamaterials - Exploring Applications from Military Imaging to Stealth Technology
Workshop at the 9th Annual Next Generation Materials for Defense, Washington, DC, 2009
Special Session on Nonlinear Metamaterials, 3rd International Congress on Advanced
Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, London, UK, 2009

Technical Committee Member:

The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optical Communications Technical Program Subcommittee, 2008-2010
International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, 2010
Bragg Gratings, Poling & Photosensitivity and Nonlinear Photonics OSA Topical Meetings, 2007

Conference Session Chair:

The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/QELS), 2008-2010
The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) NanoScience + Engineering conference, 2008, 2010

Guest Editorship and Board Membership:

Guest Editor, Optics Communication Special Issue on Nonlinear Optics in Metamaterials, 2008-2010
Guest Editor, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics Special Issue on Metamaterials, 2008-2010
Advisory Board Member, Optics Communications, 2008-present

Panelist/Proposal Reviewer:

Division of Materials Research,National Science Foundation (NSF), Materials Research Centers and Teams competition, 2010
Ad-hoc reviewer for NSF CREST/HBCU-RISE program, 2010
Panelist for National Science Foundation Panel for the Electronics, Photonics and Device
Technologies Program, Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems Program, 2007, 2009
Proposal Reviewer for the United States Army Research Office (Physical Sciences Division), 2008-2010

Journal Reviewer: