Achievement

Three former IGERT Trainees obtained their Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado. The first one to graduate was Timothy Gerke (Advisor: Prof. Piestun) who successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Aperiodic Volume Optics" on October 2010. Daniel Feldkhun (Advisor: Prof. Wagner) became the second former IGERT trainee to graduate by successfully defending on November 2010 his PhD thesis: "Doppler Encoded Exitation Patterning Microscopy". The last former IGERT trainee to graduate during this reporting period was Eric Moore (advisor: Prof. McLeod) who on March 2011 successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Advances in Swept-Wavelength Interferometry for Precision Measurements". The tree new PhDs are now working in industry, Dr. Gerke for Fianium, and Drs. Feldkhun and Moore for their own company Chiaro Technologies, a start-up they founded together with a third former CU student.