Third year PGR Joaquin Faneca has been awarded a $3000 grant from SPIE. SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 264,000 constituents from approximately 166 countries, this not-for-profit society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth.
In 2019 SPIE awarded $293,000 in education scholarships to 85 outstanding individuals, including Joaquin, for their potential long-range contribution to optics, photonics, or other related fields. Joaquin’s individual project was orientated in programmable photonic integrated circuits based on functional materials such as phase change materials or 2D materials.
He plans to use the money to purchase some books and to go to San Francisco to the Conference Photonic West in February next year, where he will be given the recognition and the diploma of the grant in a student lunch event there. He will submit a proceedings and present a poster there.