Awards & Recognition

Elected Secretary of the Board of Directors of the International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS), one of the seven international societies members of the International Commission for Optics at the United Nations (UN), June 2026
Invited Visiting Professor, Kyoto Medical School, Japan, May 2026
Invited Visiting Professor, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, May 2026
Invited Expert on ‘Movember’ New York Convening: Novel Treatments for Prostate Cancer-Associated Erectile Dysfunction (ED) Panel, April 2025
Invited Visiting Professor, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, March 2025
Invited Visiting Professor, Kyoto Medical School, Japan, March 2025
Invited Visiting Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa, Japan, February-April 2023
Invited Visiting Professor, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, April-June 2023
Nominated Co-Chair of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC) February 9 – 11, 2022, Vienna, Austria
Invited Visiting Professor, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, December 2023
Elected Senior Member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), August 2021
Nominated Chair of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies – BIOIMAGING (on-line), February 2021
Invited Visiting Professor, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, December 2021
Invited Visiting Professor, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, April-May 2018
Invited Visiting Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Graduate University), Japan, February-April 2018
Elected Senior Member of Optical Society of America, August 2017
Invited Visiting Professor, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, September-October 2017
Awarded Visiting Professor, Helmholtz Centre, Technical University of Munich, Germany, December 2016
Invited Visiting Professor, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, September-October 2015
The international Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) certificate of recognition, 2015
Ryerson Faculty of Science Dean Scholarly Research and Creative Activity (SRC) Award, for research achievements within five years of becoming a faculty member, 2014
Ryerson Early Tenure Nomination granted, 2011-2014.
Nominated Non-Resident Guest Professor, Erlangen University, Germany, August 2011 - August 2015
The best research paper award, European Nanotechnology Initiative Conference, 6th European Framework, BONSAI Consortium, Rome, Italy, 2012
Invited Visiting Professor, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, September-October 2012
Invited Visiting Professor Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, April-May 2012
Edmund Optics Educational Award Finalist, 2011; Congratulations to Our 2011 Award Recipients! (external link)
Habilitation Degree granted from Engineering Faculty, FAU, Germany, 2008-2011 (Dr. Habil., (record #125 since 1971 (foundation year of the FAU Engineering Faculty))
The research project proposal pitch competition award winner (US$22,000), The Normal Human Breast: Building Model from Mice to Women, Conference, Santa Monica, USA, 2011