I am pleased to introduce Yangjian Cai as the newest JOSA A topical editor. Prof. Cai has long been an important part of the OSA publishing world as an author with more than 30 papers in JOSA A alone. He has made a habit of giving back to the optics community as a diligent and frequent reviewer and his effort was recognized in 2017 with the OSA Outstanding Reviewer Recognition. He now joins us as a topical editor in support of atmospheric optics. Prof. Cai has shaped the direction of this field with his own work in the propagation of partially coherent beams in turbulent atmospheres and now he will help us to provide an outlet for the work of others in this vibrant area of research.

Yangjian Cai

Atmospheric Optics

Yangjian Cai is Dean of the School of Physics and Electronics at Shandong Normal University, China. He received his PhD in Physics from Zhejiang University, China, in 2005 and a PhD in electromagnetic theory from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2006. He was elected as a Humboldt Research Fellow in 2007 and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Max Planck Research Group, Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics at the University of Erlangen, Germany, from 2006 to 2009. He went on to serve as full professor at Soochow University from 2009 to 2018 and later joined Shandong Normal University, China. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the National 100 Excellent PhD Theses Award of the Ministry of Education of China and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, China. In 2016, he was selected as a distinguished professor of Jiangsu Province, China, and in 2017, he was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for OSA journals. His research interests include optical coherence and polarization, atmospheric optics, beam propagation, and optical imaging. He has published over 280 papers in refereed international journals (including nine invited review articles) and three book chapters.