President-Elect
Donna T. Strickland
Donna Strickland received her B. Eng. Degree in Engineering Physics, from McMaster University in 1981. She graduated from the University of Rochester in 1989 with a Ph.D. in Optics. Along with her PhD supervisor, Dr. Gerard Mourou, Donna Strickland co-invented Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA), which made it possible to amplify ultra-short pulses to unprecedented levels. From 1988 to 1991, Dr. Strickland was a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada. The following year, she was a physicist with the laser division of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 1992, she became a member of the technical staff of Princeton's Advanced Technology Center for Photonics and Opto-electronic Materials. Dr. Strickland joined the physics department of the University of Waterloo as an assistant professor in 1997. At Waterloo, Dr. Strickland's ultrafast laser group develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2002 and since 2007 has been the Associate Chair of the Department. Dr. Strickland was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 1998. She received a Premier’s Research Excellence Award in1999 and a Cottrell Scholars Award from Research Corporation in 2000 and was named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2008.
Dr. Strickland has worked on several committees within the OSA. She has been on the editorial board of OPN and is currently a topical editor for Optics Letters. She has chaired the Archie McMahon and R.W. Wood prize committees. She was on the program committee for the International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena in 2002 and is the Program co-chair for FiO 2010. Donna was a member of the MES council from 2004 to 2006. She was elected to be a Director-at-large on the OSA board from 2005-2007 and sat on the Board executive committee during 2006-2007. Currently, she is the OSA appointed VP to the ICO board. Dr. Strickland is the 2011 OSA Vice-President and will serve as OSA President in 2013.
