Greater Bloomington, Illinois Area
Prof. Spalding is a fellow of three professional societies (and a Senior Member of IEEE), has given invited talks widely, and has published on a wide range of electrical and optical topics. For 20 years, he served as Chair of the conference on Optical Trapping & Optical Micromanipulation, which is the largest conference in the field. In addition, he initiated and led an effort that has (so far) disseminated nearly 600 single-photon detectors to the advanced instructional labs at a great many colleges and universities and, as PI of NSF DUE grants, funded the training of faculty and staff implementing these and other advanced instructional labs (for which he mentors faculty and staff on integrating Programmable Optics into their teaching). Through the Advanced Laboratory Physics Association (ALPhA), where he served as founding President from 2007-2010, he has continued (since 2010) to serve on the committee coordinating the ALPhA Immersions faculty-staff training programs. These (combined) programs have already impacted more than forty percent of all physics degree granting programs in the United States (and have had some impact globally). — He continues working to ensure that this community of instructors remains informed of opportunities within Photonics and, more generally, to facilitate the coordination of additional initiatives and partnerships between IEEE, SPIE, Optica, APS, AAPT, ALPhA, and the Jonathan F. Reichert Foundation. Prof. Spalding has served, since its founding in 2014, as Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Reichert Foundation, an ambitious non-profit working to establish programs and grants for hands-on instructional laboratories in physics, beyond the first year of university ( http://jfreichertfoundation.org ). He recently wrapped up his term as elected Faculty Representative to the Illinois Wesleyan University Board of Trustees, and (until 12 January, 2027) serves in the presidential chain of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), following a term as Director-at-Large on the Board of Directors of AAPT, and previous service as the Chair of the AAPT Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education, and Chair of the AAPT Philanthropy & Special Projects Committee. He is a Delegate to the American Institute of Physics Federation Assembly. He is a well-connected, board-experienced, strategic communicator, and design process instructor. He is a physicist, and he teaches. Full C.V. available online at: https://sun.iwu.edu/~gspaldin/GabeCV.html
An ambitious non-profit foundation working to establish support programs and grants for instructional laboratories in physics, beyond the first year of university: http://jfreichertfoundation.org
The largest conference in the field, held each summer in San Diego