Lew elected as senior member of SPIE
Matthew Lew recognized for outstanding contributions to optical imaging community
Matthew Lew, associate professor in the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named a senior member of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
SPIE senior members are members of distinction honored for their professional experience, active involvement with the optics community and performance that sets them apart from their peers.
Lew’s lab builds advanced imaging systems to study biological and chemical systems at the nanoscale, leveraging innovations in applied optics, classical and quantum detection and estimation theory, optimal system design and physical chemistry. Its optical nanoscopes visualize the movements of individual molecules inside and outside living cells. New technologies developed in the Lew Lab include using tiny fluorescent molecules as sensors to visualize biomolecular “silly putty,” designing new “lenses” that produce images that capture how molecules move and tumble, and developing new machine learning tools to measure the position and orientation of single molecules.
Lew is a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) and a member of the American Chemical Society, Tau Beta Pi, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and the editorial boards of Scientific Reports and Chemical & Biomedical Imaging. He joined the WashU faculty in 2015.
