{"id":2377,"date":"2026-10-08T16:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2026-10-08T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:48:23","slug":"optica-fellow-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/optica-fellow-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Optica Fellow Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m honored to be featured in Optica&#8217;s newly published Fellow Profiles.<br>The profile gave me an opportunity to reflect on a scientific path that has taken me from fluid mechanics to cellular mechanics and, ultimately, to label-free ultrasensitive molecular sensing.<br>Today, my group is developing next-generation optical sensing platforms and working with collaborators across disciplines on problems ranging from early disease detection and drug discovery to environmental and plant sensing.<br>I also shared some thoughts on mentorship, curiosity across disciplines, and why I believe this is a particularly exciting time for optics and photonics.<br>Optica has been my professional home for many years, and I\u2019m grateful for the colleagues, mentors, students, collaborators, and friends who have made that community so meaningful.<br>Thank you to Optica for sharing my story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optica.org\/get_involved\/awards_and_honors\/fellow_members\/fellow_profiles\/judith_su\">optica.org\/get_involved\/awards_and_honors\/fellow_members\/fellow_profiles\/judith_su<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m honored to be featured in Optica&#8217;s newly published Fellow Profiles.The profile gave me an opportunity to reflect on a scientific path that has taken me from fluid mechanics to cellular mechanics and, ultimately, to label-free ultrasensitive molecular sensing.Today, my group is developing next-generation optical sensing platforms and working with collaborators across disciplines on problems ranging from early disease detection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jsu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}