NIT Strategic Workshop Emerging Technologies for Future Optical and Wireless Networks September 8 & 9, 2003 Thomas F. Krauss Professor Thomas F. Krauss has been involved in optoelectronics research for the 15 years since working at IBM Yorktown Heights, USA (1987-1988). He conducted his Ph.D. studies at Glasgow University, U.K., on the topic of monolithic semiconductor ring lasers, where he was the first to demonstrate cw operation as well as OEIC functionality. As a Royal Society Research Fellow, he initiated the field of semiconductor photonic crystals in the UK (1993) and has since established a reputation worldwide, as evidenced by the large number of invited talks he presents at international level (14 such presentations in 2002 alone). In 1997, he spent a year at Caltech, Pasadena, U.S.A.; to work on efficient photonic crystal based light emitters. In 2000, he accepted a personal chair in Optoelectronics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, and established a photonic crystal research group (currently 12 members) and semiconductor microfabrication laboratory. He is grant holder of several U.K. research projects and is coordinator of the EU-IST research project "Photonic Integrated Circuits using Photonic Crystals (PICCO)" involving 7 academic and industrial partners from Belgium, Denmark, Italy and the UK. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2001) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2002). More info: Prof. Krauss' web site