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Meet the Editors

As editor-in-chief, Michael Wheeler oversees Photonics Media's editorial operations — spanning print, web, and podcasts. He also serves as editor of Vision Spectra, chronicling advancements in the rapidly expanding machine vision/inspection sector.

Jake Saltzman serves as editor of Photonics Spectra magazine. As news editor at Photonics Media, Saltzman led news coverage for Photonics Spectra, Vision Spectra, BioPhotonics, and EuroPhotonics magazines. He hosts the "All Things Photonics" podcast.

Senior Editor Douglas Farmer has been a journalist for nearly 20 years, winning awards for health and education reporting. He has a master's degree in journalism from Ball State University. He is editor of BioPhotonics magazine.

Contributing Editor Hank Hogan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He worked in the semiconductor industry and now writes about science and technology.

Contributing Editor Marie Freebody is a freelance science and technology journalist with a master’s degree in physics and a concentration in nuclear astrophysics from the University of Surrey in England.

Contributing Editor Michael Eisenstein studied biology at Brown University and Rockefeller University. He has worked as a freelance science journalist and as an editor for the past 10 years.

Contributing Editor James Schlett is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist. He is the former editor of BioPhotonics magazine.

Contributing Editor Andreas Thoss, Ph.D., is a laser physicist, founder of THOSS Media, and a contributing editor to Photonics Spectra. He has been writing and editing technical texts, with a focus on the field of photonics, for two decades.

Editorial Advisory Board

David Benaron, M.D.
Professor, Medicine (consulting)
Founder, Stanford Biomedical Optics program
Stanford University School of Medicine
CEO, Spectros Corp.

Stephen A. Boppart, M.D., Ph.D.
Bliss Professor of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering and Medicine
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles
HHMI Professor, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Jürgen Popp, Ph.D.
Scientific Director Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
Chair, Physical Chemistry Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal Czechoslovak Spectroscopy Society

Giacomo Vacca, Ph.D.
Founder and President, Kinetic River Corp.
Cofounder and Chief Science Officer, BeamWise Inc.

Adam Wax, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
Founder and President, Lumedica