ProfessorBenjamin Eggleton

Recent relevant professional and University leadership roles

2024-                 Member of the Group of Eight (Go8) Defence and Security Committee

2024-                 Member of the BCA (Business Council Australia) AUKUS Pillar 2 working group

2024-2025        Chair of the Australian Academy of Science Pawsey Award Selection Committee

2021-2022         Chair of Australian Academy of Science Selection Committee (SC5)

2017-                  Membership of the Australian Academy of Science Gender Equity committee

2016-                  Membership of the School of Physics Equity committee

2015-2017          Board of Governors, IEEE Photonics Society

2015-2017          Member of the OSA Meetings Council

2015                   Chair of the University of Sydney working group that shaped the University’s current strategy for engagement and translation

2014                   Chair of the University of Sydney working group, shaped the interdisciplinary nanoscience strategy for the University’s research 

2008-2010        President of the Australian Optical Society

2005                 Chair, OSA Adolph Lomb Medal Committee

Significant positions – Conferences and Workshops

2020                   General chair, CLEO-Conference on lasers and electro-optics -Pacific Rim (Sydney)

2019                    General chair, Asia conference on photonics, Chengdu, China

2019                    General chair, CLEO-conference on lasers and electro-optics, San Jose, USA

2017                    Program chair, CLEO-conference on lasers and electro-optics, San Jose, USA

2016                    Congress chair, OSA photonics and fiber technology, Sydney, Australia

2016                    Conference chair, nonlinear optics & applications, SPIE Photonics Europe 2016, Brussels, Belgium

2016-2018           Chair of CLEO Short Courses, Leads Coordination of CLEO Short courses (given by leading researchers from around the world)

2015                    Conference Chair, SPIE Micro+Nano Materials, Applications, and Devices 2015, Sydney, Australia

2015                    Founding Conference Chair, Workshop on OptoMechanics and Brillouin scattering: fundamentals, Applications and Technologies (WOMBAT 2015), Sydney, Australia

2014                    Conference General Chair, OptoElectronics and Communication Conference (OECC), Melbourne, Australia

2014                    Conference Chair, Nonlinear Optics and its Applications, SPIE Photonics Europe 2014, Brussels, Belgium

2012                    Conference Chair, Nonlinear Optics and its Applications, SPIE Photonics Europe 2012, Brussels, Belgium

2011                     Program Chair, International Quantum Electronics Conference / Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (IQEC-CLEO), Sydney

2009                   General Chair, 8th International Photonic & Electromagnetic Crystal Structures Meeting (PECS VIII), Sydney, Australia

2008                   General Chair, Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), Sydney, Australia

2007                   General Chair, OSA Topical Meeting, Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling (BGPP), Quebec City, Canada

2005                   Program Chair, Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling (BGPP), Sydney

                            General and Program Chair, Photonic Crystals: Fundamentals to Devices, Sydney, Australia

                            Sub-committee Chair, Fiber and guided wave lasers and amplifiers, Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2005), Baltimore, USA

2004                   Program Chair: Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, Canberra

                            Technical Group Chair: Photonic Devices, Frontiers in Optics, OSA Annual Meeting, Rochester, USA

2003                   Sub-committee Chair: Gratings, Photonic Bandgap and Signal Conditioning Devices, Optical Fiber Communications Conference, Anaheim, USA

                            Committee: Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO’2003), Anaheim, USA

                            Sub-committee chair: Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling, Monterey, USA

                            Program Chair: Holey Fibers and Photonic Crystals, IEEE/LEOS Topical Meeting, Vancouver, Canada

                            Symposium organiser: Specialty Fiber Devices, Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Tuscon, USA

2002                   Committee: Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO 2002), Long Beach, USA

                            Committee: Nonlinear Guided Waves, topical meeting (NLGW 2002), Stressa, Italy

                            Committee: Materials Research Society annual meeting, Symposium on Micro-Photonics, Boston, USA

                            Committee: Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2002, Anaheim, USA

2001                    Committee Member: Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity Meeting and Poling (BGPP), Stressa, Italy

2000                   Committee: Quantum-Electronics and Laser-Spectroscopy, Subcommittee member: Novel Optics, QELS’2000, San Francisco, USA

                            Committee: Nonlinear Guided Waves topical meeting, 2000–01, Florida, USA

1999                    Committee: Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling, Florida, USA

1998                    Co-organiser for workshop: Novel Solitons and Nonlinear Periodic Structures (Victoria Meetings 1998), Victoria, Canada

Editorial positions

2015-2025          Editor-in-Chief, APL Photonics

2007-2015          Editor-in-Chief, Optics Communications

2014-2016           Associate Editor, OSA Advances in Optics and Photonics

2018                    Guest Editor, Special Issue on Ultralow loss integrated waveguides, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

2016                    Guest Editor, Special issue on Quantum photonics, Journal of Nanophotonics

2015                    Guest Editor, Focus on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering, New Journal of Physics

2011                     Guest Editor, Special Issue on Chalcogenide Photonics, Optics Express

2006-                  Editorial Board Member, Opto-Electronics Letters

2003- 2007        Associate Editor, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

2003                   Guest Editor, Special Issue on Photonic Crystals and Holey Fibres, Optics Express