About David Nugent, Ph.D.

David founded Elucidare in 2003 after a highly successful career as an equities analyst in the London Stock Market. He graduated from Glasgow University in 1992 with a double-first class honours degree in Physics and Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge University in 1995. His work on ultrafast telecommunications lasers was funded by a Research Fellowship from British Telecom Research Laboratories.

After three years at Arthur D Little, the international management consulting firm, he moved into investment banking at Rabobank International where he founded the Technology equity research team. In 1999 he moved to APAX Securities where he built one of the most successful technology research teams in London. In the Reuters Surveys, he was the highest ranked analyst in both the Telecommunications Services and IT Hardware sectors simultaneously.

About Professor James Van Howe, Ph.D.

James van Howe, a professor in physics and astronomy, focuses his research on leveraging fiber optic technology typically used for telecommunications in order to develop pulsed laser sources for biomedical imaging and other non-telecom applications. He has authored more than twenty journal publications and conference proceedings and has three patents pending on his work. In the fall of 2007 he began an assistant professorship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL.

Professor van Howe is a member of the Optical Society of America.  He received a B.A. degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 2001, a M.S. degree in physics from Cornell University in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 2007.

About Chun-Hung “Frank” Kuo, Ph.D

Chun-Hung “Frank” Kuo, an experienced spectroscopist at Mettler-Toledo, has been fascinated by light-matter interactions for most of his life! In graduate school working for Professor Robin Hochstrasser, his research focused on “multi-dimensional spectroscopy” and “nonlinear optical science”. At Mettler-Toledo, he continues leading and working with a vibrant team on several innovative R&D projects. His research and the expertise helps the company advancing the technology, and staying at the frontiers of it. He has co-authored more than six journal publications, a pending patent, presented works in numerous conferences, and is an energetic Young Professional of OSA.

Frank Kuo is a member of the Optical Society of America, APS, and ACS. He is also a committee member of Applied Industrial Optics. He received a B.A. degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University in 2001, and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Before joining Mettler-Toledo, he worked as a senior scientist at Newport Corporation for more than three years.

About Ksenia Dolgaleva

Ksenia Dolgaleva graduated with M.S. in Physics from Moscow State University, and with Ph.D. in Optics from the Institute of Optics, the  University of Rochester. Her Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Prof. Robert Boyd. Ksenia is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Prof.  Stewart Aitchison’s group at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, the University of Toronto. Her current research is focused on Integrated Optics.

Ksenia co-authored more than 10 papers, published in refereed journals, and presented on more than 10 international conferences.  She was awarded a prize for an outstanding Master thesis from the Russian Physical Society, and a prize for outstanding student presentation at the Frontiers in Optics OSA Annual Meeting in Rochester in October 2008.