David Hagan
CREOL, University of Central Florida, Dean
Integrated photonics research at CREOL
About the Speaker
David J. Hagan received his PhD degree in Physics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland in 1985. After a brief spell as research scientist at the University of North Texas, he moved to UCF in 1987 as a founding member of the CREOL faculty. He is currently Pegasus Professor of Optics and Photonics and serves Dean of the College of Optics and Photonics. He was recently elected to the SPIE Board of directors has previously served on the Board of Directors of Optica, and. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Optical Materials Express from 2010-2015. His current research interests include nonlinear optical materials, especially semiconductors and organics, applications of extremely nondegenerate nonlinear optics, and techniques for nonlinear optical characterization and spectroscopy. Dr. Hagan is a Fellow of Optica and SPIE.
