Washington. Anna Consortini, former lecturer in General Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence, received the 2018 Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award from the Optical Society (OSA). She was awarded “for her exceptional dedication to the promotion of Optics on an international level, with a very valuable leadership among institutions and scientific societies such as the International Commission for Optics (ICO), the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), the OSA and the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (SIOF) “. (9colonne)