Membres of "women in optics"

Kathleen Richardson – Pr of optics – CREOL – Central Florida University

Dr. Kathleen Richardson is currently Professor of Optics and Materials Science and Engineering at CREOL/College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central FL, where she runs the Glass Processing and Characterization Laboratory (GPCL). Dr. Richardson is currently President of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), and a past-Chair of ACerS’ Glass and Optical Materials Division (GOMD) and a past-President of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE). She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and the Coordinating Technical Committee (CTC) of the International Commission on Glass (ICG). Most recently, Dr. Richardson has served on advisory boards of numerous organizations, including the Board of Directors of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), Virginia Tech’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, the NSF-ERC on Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) at Princeton University and as part of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), in Sydney Australia. She is a recognized world leader in infrared glass research and education, and as a result of these efforts, currently holds the rank of Fellow, in the American Ceramic Society, the Society of Glass Technology (UK), SPIE and the Optical Society of America (OSA). Since 2006, she has served as a member of the Board of Trustees at Alfred University.

Mireille Blanchard-Desce – CNRS research director and the team leader of "Photonics and Omics Enabled by Innovations in Chemical Synthesis" - ISM – University of Bordeaux

Mireille Blanchard-Desce is a CNRS research director and the team leader of "Photonics and Omics Enabled by Innovations in Chemical Synthesis" (Phoenics) at ISM laboratory, she has over 220 publications in international journals, 6 book chapters, 6 patents, more than 90 invited lectures at conferences. She received several prizes and awards : the Bronze Medal of the CNRS (1990), Physical Chemistry prize of the French Chemical Society (1996), French Academy of Sciences Prix Mergier-Bourdeix (1999), Silver Medal of the CNRS (2008) and Légion d'honneur (2011). She has been the coordinator of  international programs like TOPBIO (TwO Photon absorbers for BIOmedical applications) a FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) and principal investigator  in numerous interdisciplinary projects.

Caroline Boudoux – Pr. at École Polytechnique de Montréal, co-President/co-Founder of Castor Optics

Caroline Boudoux, PhD, obtained her PhD in 2007 from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology under the joint mentorship of Brett E. Bouma and Guillermo J. Tearney. She then studied coherent control applied to nonlinear microscopy at École Polytechnique (France) under Emmanuel Beaurepaire and Manuel Joffre before joining the Engineering Physics department of École Polytechnique Montréal in 2007 as an assistant professor. She is now an associate professor and a faculty member of the Biomedical Engineering Institute. She is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University.Her research focuses on biomedical optics, particularly the translation of optical diagnostics technologies for clinical applications in the fields of head and neck surgery. In 2013, she co-founded Castor Optics, a spin-off company commercializing double-clad fiber optics couplers. 

Ramatou Bello Doua – Research engineer - Alphanov (cancelled)

Ramatou Bello Doua is currently a research and development engineer at Alphanov in the laser and fiber team. She holds a PhD in Optics from the University of Bordeaux 1. Her doctoral subject research was on the study of the Ytterbium doped fiber laser and amplifier 

Marion Paoletti - Policy Officer for equality between women and men at the University of Bordeaux

Marion Paoletti is associate professor of political science at the University of Bordeaux, she’s member of the center Emile Durkheim. Since July 2014, she is Policy Officer for equality between women and men at the University of Bordeaux ? She recently published “France : feminist or antifeminist?” (with Christine Bard) in Travail, genre et société ( 32, 2014, pp. 141-163).

Christine Lagabrielle – Associate Professor in psychology of labour and organizations (gender studies), Laboratory EA 4139 Psychology, Health and Quality of Life, University of Bordeaux

Several of her research are focused on gender stereotypes and difficulties faced by women in male-dominated jobs. These studies investigate how some individual factors (satisfaction, self-efficacy, organizational commitment, perception of gender identity conflict...) and some organizational factors (tactics of organizational socialization, social support...) influence the intention to leave or remain in jobs traditionally held by men.