Silver medal for the EPS President-elect
President-elect John Dudley has been awarded the French National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS] silver medal 2013 for his scientific achievements in the fields of nonlinear optics, ultrafast photonics, optical techniques and supercontinuum generation. John’s research activities focus equally on experimental and theoretical studies in nonlinear optics, with particular emphasis on optical fibre propagation, ultrafast metrology, noise and instabilities, and nonlinear dynamics in general. Rogue waves and the analogy of optics and hydrodynamics approaches are among his actual research interests. John is a co-laureate of an ERC Advanced Grant to study the mathematics and physics of extreme waves.
John’s implication in the life of learned societies shines throughout his curriculum. Among other distinctions he is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the IEEE. For the EPS, John has served as chair of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division, he was member of the 2011 strategy revision group, and he is leading the project to declare 2015 as the International Year of Light. John will be EPS president starting in April 2013.
Originally from New Zealand, John is a professor at Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon since 2000.
The CNRS is France’s National Research Council, with about 11 700 permanent research positions out of its 30 000 employees. The CNRS silver medal honours researchers, who are recognized nationally and internationally for the originality, quality, and importance of their work. It is awarded every year in the different research domains of CNRS.
