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Amir Gandjbakhche, National Institutes of Health, USA
Amir Gandjbakhche, National Institutes of Health, USA, shares how being a crusader for finding cures, saving lives and discovering technologies for affordable medical care makes his research more...
Azad Siahmakoun, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA
Azad Siahmakoun's, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA, shares his passion for teaching and inspiring students in optics.
Brian Vohnsen, University College Dublin, Ireland
“Going outside the boundaries” of his research and having the ability to connect the fields of biomedical optics and nano-optics is Brian Vohnsen’s, greatest motivation for his research at the...
Candace Cobb
Candace Cobb outlines her educational journey into optics.
Jennifer Decker, National Rsearch Council Canada
OSA Member and Senior Analyst for the National Research Council Canada (NRC), Canada, Jennifer Decker enjoys collaborating with researchers and organizations for projects in optics and photonics.
Julia Majors
Blogger Julia Majors shares how a fated encounter with an optics table sparked her interest in the field of optics.
Katharine Schmidtke, Facebook, USA
Katharine Schmidtke, Facebook, USA, looks back on her journey from quantum physics and lasers to nonlinear optics.
Wendell Talbot Hill, University of Maryland
Wendell Talbot Hill, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, shares his fascination with lasers.
Peter Knight, The Kavli Royal Society International Centre
“Optics has been the enabler of things that have transformed our world more than anything else since the industrial revolution,” Sir Peter Knight, 2004 OSA President, The Kavli Royal Society...
Patricia Bath, University of California, Los Angeles
Ophthalmologist and inventor of the laserphaco probe for cataract treatment, Patricia Bath, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, offers the next generation of scientists and medical...
Monish Ranjan Chatterjee, University of Dayton
Inspired to follow in the footsteps of 20th Century Indian Physicists, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee, University of Dayton, USA, shares his journey from a college student in Kharagpur, India, to a...
Jay Eastman, Optel, Inc.
Jay Eastman, OSA Fellow, Optel, Inc., USA, recounts how a tinkering project with his father and a desire to start a business led to a career in optics.
Irina Novikova, College of William and Mary
Irina Novikova, College of William and Mary, USA, shares that the inner workings of quantum mechanics reveals how light is the “ultimate quantum object.”
Connie Chang-Hasnain, University of California, Berkeley
Connie Chang-Hasnain, OSA Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA, muses over the simplistic beauty of optics and how it inspired her work in semiconductor lasers.
Bettina Heim, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Bettina Heim, OSA Ambassador, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, reflects on her early love for rainbows and natural optical phenomenon, which influenced her career choice to...
Andrea Armani, University of Southern California
Andrea Armani, University of Southern California, USA, discusses her research with an innovative new polymeric material that can change properties with exposure to UV radiation.
Alvaro Casas Bedoya, University of Sydney, Australia
Alvaro Casas Bedoya, OSA Ambassador, University of Sydney, Australia, revels in the excitement of visiting unchartered territories with nonlinear optics.
Anthony Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Anthony Yu, OSA Senior Member, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, talks about how a visit from Nobel Laureate Arthur Schawlow sparked his interest in lasers and optics.
Arlene Smith, Avo Photonics, Inc.
Arlene Smith, Avo Photonics, Inc., USA, shares her thoughts on applying basic optics principles learned in school to solve problems.
Antigone Marino, Italian National Research Council
Antigone Marino, Italian National Research Council, Italy, reflects on how seeing an image appear on photographic paper as a young child was the reason she went into optics.
Alan Willner, University of Southern California
Alan Willner, OSA President and OSA Fellow, University of Southern California, USA, shares how he went from almost being a patent attorney to a career in optics.
Susana Marcos, Instituto de Optica
OSA Fellow, Susana Marcos, Instituto de Optica, Spain, recalls how her love of physics helped kindle an interest in optics.
Shanti Bhattacharya, ITT Madras
"I feel a bit like a detective in my research", exclaims Shanti Bhattacharya, ITT Madras, India.
Qing Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
OSA Fellow, Qing Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, reflects on how his photography hobby led him into optics.
David Reitze, California Institute of Technology
LIGO researcher, David Reitze, California Institute of Technology, USA, working with lasers as a graduate student led to a career in optics.
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