Dana Z Anderson earned his B.S. degree from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, USA. He completed postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology. Today, he is a Fellow of JILA and Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2015, he co-founded ColdQuanta, where he is CTO.

Anderson is a Fellow of OSA and recipient of the R. W. Wood Prize “for pioneering work on photorefractive gain in ring resonators.”