Professor Volker Sorger wins the 2016 Outstanding Young Researcher Award

Prof. Volker Sorger is an outstanding researcher, scholar, and entrepreneur who has laid solid foundations for a distinguished career.  His research focuses on nanoscale opto-electronic device innovations leading to revolutionary performance in light-matter-interactions, switching and data processing.  He works collaboratively with colleagues from other disciplines and with industry such as IBM Research.  He has published over 80 research articles that were cited 3700 times according to Google Scholar. His publications have appeared in some of the most prestigious venues including the Nature Publishing Group and Science. He has secured 6 research grants from prestigious U.S. funding agencies, including NSF and AFOSR, totaling over 2.4 Million Dollars.  In addition, he won a total of 18 awards and prizes including the prestigious Air Force Office of Scientific Research Award, and was nominated for the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering given by the White House. He disclosed six (6) patents and recently licensed results of his PhD study for multi-million dollars to industry. Sorger is truly a young leader in his field and as such he is serving as the editor-in-chief of a leading journal and a board member of the Optical Society of America (OSA).