Adrian Podoleanu (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, of the Institute of Physics, of Optica, of SPIE and an International Fellow of Chinese Optical Society) is the Head of the Applied Optics Group, Professor of Biomedical Optics in the Department of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, an investigator of the Biomedical Research Centre, University College London (UCL) and Institute of Ophthalmology and honorary professor in the UCL and in the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Technical University of Bucharest in 1984. He was a founder member of the Romanian Chapter of SPIE and its first Chairman (1992). He has obtained the first en-face OCT images from the retina in the human eye and reported the first combined OCT/SLO instrument. Currently he serves as the Associate Secretary of the International Commission for Optics. AWARDS: Order of the Crown, officer, Royal House of Romania, 2017; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2015; European Research Council, Advanced Research Fellowship, 2010-2015; Ambassador’s Diploma, Embassy of Romania in the UK, 2009;  Leverhulme Research Fellowship, 2004 – 2006; Romanian Academy “Constantin Miculescu” prize for research in Lasers and Nonlinear Optics, 1984.