Alexander Gaeta
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Alexander Gaeta
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Gaeta received his doctorate in Optics from the University of Rochester. Gaeta joined Columbia University as the David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science in 2015. Prior to that, Gaeta was the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering at Cornell University and was Chair of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics from 2011–2014. He has published more than 300 journal articles in quantum and nonlinear photonics. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optica from 2014–2020 and Chair of the Optica Publications Council in 2022. He co-founded Xscape Photonics, Inc. and served as the CEO from 2021–2023. He is a Fellow of Optica, APS and IEEE, and a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, and was awarded the 2019 Charles H. Townes Medal from Optica.
