Prof Martin Booth is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering

AET Fellow, Prof Martin Booth, is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his academic achievement in the development and application of adaptive optical methods in microscopy, laser-based materials processing and biomedical imaging. Royal Academy of Engineering is a National Academy in the UK providing progressive leadership, and a Fellowship bringing together an unrivalled community of leaders from every part of engineering and technology.

Prof Martin Booth is chair in Optical and Photonic Engineering at the University of Oxford. His group have developed numerous implementations of adaptive optics for aberration correction in high resolution microscopes and precision laser fabrication systems. He is also a fellow of SPIE, Optica, and the Institute of Physics and serves on the board of Optica. He has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, over thirty patents, and has co-founded two spin-off companies, Aurox Ltd and Opsydia Ltd.