Thomas Pearsall

<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Thomas Pearsall has a distinguished career in photonic science and technology, where he has made major contributions to fiber-optic telecommunications and silicon photonics. A graduate of Cornell University, he worked in research at Thomson/CSF, and at Bell Labs for nearly two decades. In 1990, Pearsall was named Boeing-Johnson Chair and Professor at the University of Washington. From 1998 to 2002, he directed research on planar photonic crystals at Corning in Fontainebleau, France. Throughout his career, he has invented and developed the semiconductor materials, lasers, LEDs, and photodetectors that are ubiquitous in optical fiber telecommunication networks around the globe. He has also designed and demonstrated key elements of silicon-based photonics, using strained-silicon and silicon-based photonic crystal materials.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 1.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the IEEE.</span></p>