Biography:
Prof Martin Booth is chair in Optical and Photonic Engineering at the University of Oxford. His research involves the development and application of adaptive optical methods in microscopy, laser-based materials processing and biomedical imaging. His group have developed numerous implementations of adaptive optics for aberration correction in high resolution microscopes and precision laser fabrication systems. He has held Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC Research Fellowships and in 2016 received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. In 2014 he was awarded the International Commission for Optics Prize. He was appointed Professor of Engineering Science in 2014 and Chair in Optics and Photonics in 2023. He is a fellow of SPIE, Optica, and the Institute of Physics and serves on the board of Optica. He has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, over thirty patents, and has co-founded two spin-off companies, Aurox Ltd. and Opsydia Ltd. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Light: Science and Applications.
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