CLAS researcher named IEEE Fellow

Glenn Boreman
Monday, May 28, 2018

Glenn Boreman, chair of the Department of Physics and Optical Science in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, was elevated to the status of IEEE Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in recognition of his significant contributions to optical and infrared antenna technologies.

The IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honors bestowed by the institute, and it is given to a very limited number of senior members who have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology. The number of IEEE Fellows elevated in a year is no more than one-tenth of 1 percent of the total IEEE voting membership.

“Receiving this award from IEEE was very satisfying in that it is a recognition of the research work of my students and me over a period of more than 20 years, going back to 1996,” Boreman said. “Being named a fellow of IEEE is one of three accomplishments I always wanted in my career.”

The other two career aspirations were serving as an academic department chair, which he has done at UNC Charlotte since 2011, and serving as president of SPIE – the International Society for Optics and Photonics, and he accomplished that goal in 2017.

In another recent achievement, Boreman and long-time colleague Javier Alda of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) published their book, “Infrared Antennas and Resonant Structures.”

“Since graduate school in the early 1980s, I have been fascinated with antennas,” Boreman said. “My group here at UNC Charlotte and before that at University of Central Florida has been investigating the properties of antennas and other resonant structures at infrared frequencies, enabled using electron-beam lithography. Seventeen of my 25 Ph.D. graduates thus far have worked in this general area.”

He added, “Although I am not an electrical engineer, my group’s work has been able to influence the technical community’s conversation about these concepts.”

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