IFOS Chief Scientist – US Person, Canadian Citizen Education: PhD, Fiber Optics (1984), Inst. of Advanced Studies, Australian National University; BSc (Honors), Physics (1980), Canterbury University, New Zealand. Expertise: Fiber optic sensors for harsh environment sensing, robotic, structural health monitoring & medical devices; Opto-electronic component and system design and modeling; fiber and integrated optics; communications and networking; scientific management. Experience: Authority on optical waveguide modes (McGraw-Hill book) and applications to optical fiber sensing problems and SHM. Significant experience in photonics, has co-authored well over 300 publications and official technical reports and has given numerous invited presentations. Held visiting positions at the world’s leading photonics labs including Stanford University’s Ginzton Labs and University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center. Member of ACS and SAMPE, senior member of IEEE and AIAA, and life member of ACM, OSA, SPIE and ASM International. [1] RJ Black, B Moslehi, “Fiber Optic Sensors for Space”, Ch.4 in Advances in Structural Health Monitoring of Space Systems, A. Zagrai, D. Doyle (ed.), Wiley, in press, 2018. [2] RJ Black, JM Costa, B Moslehi, L. Zarnescu, D. Hackney, K. Peters, “Fiber optic temperature profiling for thermal protection system heat shields,” Optical Engineering 55 (11), 2016.