{"id":66,"date":"2019-06-25T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2025-01-16T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:14:06","slug":"vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D., Physics;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\">Georgia Institute of Technology<\/a>, Atlanta, Georgia (1996)<\/li>\n<li>M.S., Physics;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\">Georgia Institute of Technology<\/a>, Atlanta, Georgia (1993)<\/li>\n<li>B.S., Physics;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/\">University of Toledo<\/a>, Toledo, Ohio (1991)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professional Experience<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Department of Physics &amp; Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Department Chair (2022 \u2013 present)<\/li>\n<li>Professor (2014 \u2013 present)<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor (2006 \u2013 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor (2003 \u2013 2006)<\/li>\n<li>Adjunct Assistant Professor (1999 \u2013 2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>NSF I\/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO), Charlotte, NC\n<ul>\n<li>Site Director (2018 \u2013 present)<\/li>\n<li>Site Co-Director (2015 \u2013 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>OptoMill Solutions LLC, Charlotte, NC\n<ul>\n<li>Co-founder and Managing Director (2016 \u2013 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Digital Optics Corporation, Charlotte, NC.\n<ul>\n<li>Manager, New Technology (2001 \u2013 2003)<\/li>\n<li>Senior Research Engineer\/ New Technology Group Leader (1997 \u2013 2001)<\/li>\n<li>Applications Engineer (1996 \u2013 1997)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Selected Professional Activities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior Editor, SPIE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiedigitallibrary.org\/journals\/journal-of-optical-microsystems\">Journal of Optical Microsystems<\/a>. (2020 \u2013 2024).<\/li>\n<li>External Advisory Board, Department of Physics and Optical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2018 \u2013 present).<\/li>\n<li>Senior Editor, SPIE <a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/x865.xml\">Journal of Micro\/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS<\/a>. (2004 \u2013 2020). Associate Editor (2001-2004).<\/li>\n<li>Symposium Chair,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spie.org\/x13200.xml\">SPIE Photonics West MOEMS\/MEMS Micro &amp; Nanofabrication<\/a>. (2009-2011). Symposium Co-Chair (2007-2008).<\/li>\n<li>SPIE Publications Committee (2010-2015)<\/li>\n<li>SPIE MOEMS-MEMS Symposium Executive Steering Committee (2007-2014)<\/li>\n<li>SPIE Fellows Selection Committee (2009-2011)<\/li>\n<li>Conference Chair,\u00a0<em>Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro\/Nano Optics and Photonics I &#8211; IV<\/em>,\u00a0SPIE Photonics West (2008-2011).<\/li>\n<li>Conference Chair, <em>Micromachining technology for microoptics and nanooptics III &#8211; V<\/em>, SPIE Photonics West, (2005-2007).<\/li>\n<li>Inaugural Program Co-Chair, Optical Society of America Topical Meeting: <em>Nanophotonics <\/em>(2006).<\/li>\n<li>Technical Group Chair for Diffractive Optics and Holography, Optical Society of America (2004-2006). Vice Chair (2003-2004).<\/li>\n<li>Optical Society of America, Science and Engineering Council (2004 \u2013 2006).<\/li>\n<li>Conference Chair,\u00a0<em>Gradient Index, Miniature, and Diffractive Optical Systems II-III<\/em>,\u00a0SPIE Annual, (2001-2003).<\/li>\n<li>President, Optical Society of America, Charlotte Chapter, (2001-2002).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education Ph.D., Physics;\u00a0Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia (1996) M.S., Physics;\u00a0Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia (1993) B.S., Physics;\u00a0University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio (1991) Professional Experience Department of Physics &amp; Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Associate Department Chair (2022 \u2013 present) Professor (2014 \u2013 present) Associate Professor (2006 \u2013 2014) Assistant Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":696,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2ULZ5-14","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/thomas-suleski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}