{"id":34982,"date":"2024-01-09T18:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/commencement\/?page_id=34982"},"modified":"2025-02-03T00:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:40:58","slug":"donna-strickland-89-phd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/commencement\/speakers\/donna-strickland-89-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Strickland \u201989 (PhD)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":34872,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34982","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"2019 Commencement Speaker","display_title":"","subtitle":"","call_to_action":"","hero_image_placement":"right_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":5322,"hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","anchor":"","css_class":"","title":"","content":"Donna Strickland is an experimental physicist and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.\r\n\r\nStrickland is corecipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing chirped pulse amplification, which she accomplished with G\u00e9rard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the University of Rochester. The goal of the research was to show how high-intensity light changes matter, and how matter affects light in this interaction. CPA, as it is called, revolutionized the field of high-intensity laser physics. Strickland and Mourou published this research in 1985, paving the way to the most intense laser pulses ever created. This work was the basis of Strickland\u2019s doctoral thesis. The research has applications today in industry and medicine\u2014including the cutting of a patient\u2019s cornea in laser eye surgery and the machining of small glass parts for use in cell phones.\r\n\r\nStrickland was previously a research associate at the National Research Council Canada, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and a member of the technical staff at Princeton University. In 1997, she joined the University of Waterloo, where her ultra-fast laser group develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations. She is a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Premier\u2019s Research Excellence Award, and a Cottrell Scholar Award. She served as the president of The Optical Society (OSA) in 2013 and is a fellow of OSA and SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics).\r\n\r\nStrickland earned a PhD in optics from the University of Rochester and a bachelor of engineering from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. 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