UoH professor elected Fellow Member of Optica

A distinguished physicist from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) Professor Venugopal Rao Soma has been elected a Fellow Member of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America, USA).

This prestigious recognition honours his outstanding contributions to ultrafast spectroscopy and nonlinear optics (NLO) studies, femtosecond ablation and explosives detection techniques.

Professor Soma in over three decades of academic and research experience has supervised 15 Ph.D. students and mentored over 100 scholars, said a press release on Friday.