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Richard De La Rue obtained the PhD degree at University College London in 1972. He joined Glasgow University as Lecturer in late 1971 and retired from a full-time professorial position in September 2010. In 2011 he joined the Photonics Research Centre at the University of Malaya, for one year as Visiting Professor. In August 2012 he took up a position as Research Professor of Optoelectronics in the School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow - and completed his tenure in July 2014. He currently has the position of Honorary Professor in the School of Engineering at Glasgow University. He has Fellow status with the IEEE, OSA, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, IET and EOS. He served as IEEE-LEOS Distinguished Lecturer for two years from mid-1999.

Richard De La Rue's research has been concerned with photonic crystal and photonic wire structures, waveguide microcavities, silicon photonics, metamaterials and graphene (oxide) photonics. His work has also included research on compact semiconductor diode lasers, photonic-crystal LEDs and the applications of photonic crystal structures and metamaterial surfaces to bio-medical and organic material sensing. He has published more than 290 research and review articles - as papers in journals and magazines - and several book chapters.











Hans Peter Herzig received the Diploma degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree in optics from the University of Neuchâtel, in 1987.

From 1978 to 1982, he was a Scientist with the Department of Optics Development of Kern, Aarau, Switzerland, working in lens design and optical testing. In 1983, he was a Graduate Research Assistant with the Applied Optics Group, Institute of Microtechnology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, working in the field of holographic optical elements. From 1989 to 2001, he was the Head of the