23 - 26 July, 2024
Optica Global Headquarters
Washington, District of Columbia USA
Events
Caroline Boudoux
Castor Optics, Canada & Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
About the Speaker
Caroline Boudoux is a Professor of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada, with appointments as a researcher at Ste-Justine Hospital, University of Montréal's Biomedical Engineering Institute, and Quebec's Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers (COPL). She completed a BASc in Engineering Physics at Université Laval, a PhD within the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (with Brett E. Bouma and Guillermo J. Tearney), and a postdoctoral fellowship at École Polytechnique de Paris (with Emmanuel Beaurepaire and Manuel Joffre).
Boudoux is recognized for her contributions to the field of biomedical optics, notably the design and application of novel fiber optics assemblies for endoscopic applications involving optical coherence tomography and confocal endomicroscopy. She received one of Canada's University Faculty Awards in 2008, was named Quebec's Star Researcher in 2011, and obtained a Fulbright Award as a Visiting Scientist at Stanford in 2015. She is also known for her contributions to teaching. In 2017, she published Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics, a complete introductory textbook on the physics of photon-tissue interactions and the design of imaging instruments exploiting these interactions. Since, she has taught in numerous summer schools (in Mexico, Ireland, and the UK) and, of course, to students at Polytechnique, which presented her with the 2022 Excellence in Teaching Award. She has trained more than 35 graduate students and postdocs—most of whom shared their work through Optica meetings or publications.
