02 - 03 April, 2024
Optimax
Ontario, New York USA
Events
Jannick Rolland
LightTopTech Corp., CTO
Advances in Freeform Optics Towards Our Collective Future
About the Speaker
Jannick P. Rolland is Director of the Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) and the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester, as well as the CTO of LighTopTech. Professor Rolland holds appointments in the Center for Visual Science and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She earned an optical engineering diploma from the Institut D'Optique Théorique et Appliquée, France, and MS and PhD degrees in Optical Science from the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Professor Rolland is a Fellow of Optica (former OSA), SPIE, NYSTAR, and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). She is also a member of the EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS), and an inaugural member of the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy. Professor Rolland served as Director at Large on the OSA Board of Directors 2010-2013, as associate editor of Presence, Optical Engineering, Optics Letters, and currently J. OPTICA. She is the recipient of the 2014 David Richardson Medal, the 2017 Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award, and the 2020 Joseph Fraunhofer Medal and Robert M. Burley Prize.
