Jannick Rolland

University of Rochester

Jannick Rolland, Ph.D., is the Brian J. Thompson Professor in Optical Engineering at the University of Rochester. She earned an optical engineering diploma from the Institut d’Optique, France, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Rolland is the director of the National Science Foundation Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO). As a faculty member, first at the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida and then at the Institute of Optics in Rochester, she developed Gabor-domain optical coherence microscopy that has been commercialized by LighTopTech Corp., which she co-founded. Rolland is a fellow of The Optical Society (OSA), SPIE, the European Academy of Sciences (EUAS), and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). She has been the recipient of the OSA David Richardson Medal, the University of Rochester Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award, the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences Alumna of the Year award, and OSA’s Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize.