H. Paul Urbach

H. Paul Urbach graduated in 1981 at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and completed in 1986 a Ph.D. thesis at the same university on the optimization of hydrodynamic propulsion. In 1986, he joined Philips Research Laboratory in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. During 1980, he spend four months in Signetics Research Laboratory in Sunnyvale, California, the USA, where he worked on optical lithography. In 1994, he became Principal Scientist at Philips Research Laboratory. In 2000, he became Part-Time Professor in diffraction optics at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), the Netherlands. Since January 2008, he is Full Professor and Head of the Optics Research Group of TUDelft. He has been President of the European Optical Society 2012-2014 and 2017-2018, Member of the Advisory Board of the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs on metrology, and Scientific Director of the Dutch Optics Centre.

Huilin Jiang graduated from Changchun Institute of Optics and Mechanics (CIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in 1969 with a bachelor's degree and received his Ph.D. from the same institute in 1987. He is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He formerly served as President of Changchun University of Science and Technology and currently is Director of the university's academic committee. He also serves as Vice Chairman of Chinese Academy of Ordnance Engineering, Executive Director of Chinese Optical Society and Chinese Optical Engineering Society, and Deputy Director of the academic committee of the State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics at CIOM.