Jannick ROLLAND-THOMPSON

Jannick Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson Professor in Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester. She is the co-founder and CTO of LighTopTech a startup on 3D high-definition microscopy. She is the director of the Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) supported by the National Science Foundation in the U.S. and corporations worldwide. The Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) is a collaborative consortium for industry/university cooperative research that is vertically integrated from mathematics to precision optical manufacturing (fabrication and testing) of freeform optics in order to transform the optics of the 21st century. She earned an optical engineering diploma from the Institut D'Optique Théorique et Appliquée (SupOptique), France, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in optical science from the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Professor Rolland is a Fellow of OSA and SPIE. She is the recipient of the 2014 OSA David Richardson Medal, the 2017 Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award, the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences 2019 Alumna of the Year Award, a 2019 Engineer of Distinction by the Rochester Engineering Society, the recipient of the 2020 Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M. Burley Prize, Fellow of the EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) elected in 2021, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) elected in 2021, and a member of the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy elected in 2022. She run for the OSA Presidency in 2020.