Internationally acknowledged pioneer in imaginative and prescient science and its purposes is known as the subsequent director of one of many College’s most extremely regarded analysis facilities.
(Courtesy of Susana Marcos)
Susana Marcos, an internationally acknowledged knowledgeable within the optics of the attention and the interactions of sunshine with the retina, will turn out to be the David R. Williams Director of the Heart for Visible Science on the University of Rochester.
Her appointment will take impact July 1. The named place is endowed with a $2 million present from John and Barbara Bruning. John, a member of the College’s Board of Trustees and retired CEO of Corning Tropel Company, and his spouse, Barbara, have been beneficiant supporters of the College.
Marcos will even maintain a joint appointment within the Division of Ophthalmology, and would be the inaugural holder of the Nicholas George Professorship on the College’s Institute of Optics, which was named in 2015 for George, a professor emeritus of optics and former director of the institute, in recognition of his affect on the planet of optics and on his college students.
Marcos, a professor on the Instituto de Óptica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IO-CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, succeeds Williams, who has served as director of the Center for Visual Science for the final three many years. His analysis group pioneered using adaptive optics to picture particular person retinal cells within the dwelling eye. The strategies that Williams’s staff developed are additionally used all through the world to enhance imaginative and prescient correction applied sciences similar to contact lenses and laser refractive surgical procedure. Williams will proceed his analysis.
“The Heart for Visible Science has established itself because the world normal for imaginative and prescient analysis underneath the management of David Williams,” Marcos says. “Furthermore, the College of Rochester has a world status as a hub of optics and photonics. And coming from the Instituto de Óptica, which is the oldest in Spain, to the Institute of Optics right here, with a good longer custom, is a dream come true.”
Her objectives for the middle embrace fostering inside and worldwide multidisciplinary collaborations in imaginative and prescient science, attracting gifted college students, creating inspirational fashions for ladies in science and expertise, and accelerating the switch of analysis discoveries to trade.
“Dr. Marcos is a revered scientist globally, pioneering new instructions in visible sciences that bridge the fundamental sciences to business purposes. She is an ideal match for the College of Rochester,” says Rob Clark, the College’s provost and senior vice chairman for analysis.
Leaders of Medical Heart and River Campus optical and imaginative and prescient science applications additionally praised the appointment.
“We’re thrilled to have Susana Marcos be a part of us in Rochester,” says David DiLoreto Jr., professor and chair of ophthalmology and director of the Flaum Eye Institute. “Her understanding of optics and ophthalmology provides her an unparalleled potential to translate her work from the bench to the attention. This work not solely helps to enhance imaginative and prescient however helps us enhance our understanding of imaginative and prescient.”
Scott Carney, director of the Institute of Optics, provides: “Susana is a tremendous expertise. She is a superb scientist, an achieved engineer, and a profitable entrepreneur. She might be a improbable addition to the school of the institute and can lead the Heart for Visible Science into a brand new period of discovery and understanding of the attention, the thoughts, and all of the mysteries of human imaginative and prescient.”
The College is acknowledged worldwide for its imaginative and prescient analysis. The Heart for Visible Science connects 42 Medical Heart and River Campus school members representing seven departments, who’re engaged in analysis starting from understanding how the traditional eye and mind enable us to see to restoring imaginative and prescient within the blind. The experience of those school spans a number of disciplines, together with biomedical engineering, neuroscience, physics, imaginative and prescient science, psychology, psychiatry, and optics.
As director of the Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab at CSIC, Marcos oversees greater than 25 members from six totally different nationalities and from multidisciplinary backgrounds that embrace physics, biomedical, optical, biomechanical, laptop and electrical engineering, visible sciences, ophthalmology, and chemistry.
Marcos accomplished BS, MS, and PhD levels in physics, utilized physics, and visible optics, respectively, from the College of Salamanca. She has coauthored greater than 200 publications in high-impact journals, with greater than 12,000 citations. She holds 20 patents—together with 14 licensed to corporations—and is cofounder of 2EyesVision SL in Madrid.
Marcos has made vital contributions to ocular speckle interferometry, wavefront sensing, adaptive optics, and quantitative anterior phase optical coherence tomography, with purposes in laser refractive surgical procedure, intraocular lenses, and the remedy of keratoconus and presbyopia, amongst others.
She is a fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) and in addition served as an OSA director-at-large from 2012 to 2105. Her awards embrace the OSA Adolph Lomb Medal, the ICO Prize awarded by the Worldwide Fee for Optics, the Ramon y Cajal Medal by the Royal Society of Sciences (named after the daddy of neuroscience), the Rey Jaime I Award in New Applied sciences (which included 18 Nobel laureates within the jury), the de Alcon Analysis Institute Award, and the 2019 Leonardo Torres Quevedo Nationwide Analysis Prize in Engineering.
Marcos’s husband, Pablo Postigo, an knowledgeable in nanophotonics on the Institute for Micro and Nanotechnology at CSIC, will even function a professor on the Institute of Optics. His analysis focuses on the design, fabrication, and characterization of recent nanophotonic gadgets that reply to present and future technological wants in optics and photonics. This consists of the manufacture of recent nanomaterials like quantum dots and new nanostructures like photonic crystals for photonic gadgets with enhanced properties.
A outstanding optics entrepreneur, John Bruning has been a College trustee since 2009 and in addition serves on the College’s Dean’s Advisory Committee for the Hajim College of Engineering & Utilized Sciences, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics Visiting Committee, the Expertise Improvement Fund Government Committee, and the Optics Blue Ribbon Panel. He and Barbara have been constant supporters of the College, particularly to facilitate development on the Institute of Optics. In 2007, John made the lead present that helped create the Robert E. Hopkins Heart for Optical Design & Engineering on the College; he additionally established the Brian J. Thompson Professorship in Optical Engineering in 2006.
“We’re deeply grateful to John and Barbara for his or her exceptional dedication to make an everlasting distinction not only for the College of Rochester, but additionally for society,” says Sarah Mangelsdorf, College president and G. Robert Witmer, Jr. College Professor. “Their generosity performs an vital function in recognizing pioneers of their area similar to Susana Marcos.”
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