Person

Forbes, Andrew

He received his PhD (1998) from the University of Natal, and subsequently spent several years working as an applied laser physicist, first for the South African Atomic Energy Corporation and then later in a private laser company where he was Technical Director. He is presently Chief Researcher at the CSIR National Laser Centre, and is the Research Group Leader for Mathematical Optics. Andrew sits on several international conference committees, is a referee for all the major optics journals, chairs SPIE international conference on Laser Beam Shaping and is the chair of the OSA technical group on Diffractive optics and holography. He is a Senior Member of the OSA, a Fellow of SPIE, and holds honorary Professorships at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Kwazulu-Natal