Robert Norwood

Robert A. Norwood is a Professor in the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, where he performs research on photonic materials and devices.  Dr. Norwood previously spent 15 years in R&D leadership positions in industry at both Fortune 100 corporations (AlliedSignal now Honeywell) and venture-capital backed startups (VP/CTO of Photon-X).  He is a world expert in integrated optics and nonlinear optical materials, with more than 185 refereed publications, 7 book chapters, 42 issued US patents, and 80 invited talks.   Dr. Norwood has served on the program committees for OFC (sub-committee chair) and CLEO.  He has been an associate editor of Optica, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters and Optical Materials Express.  Dr. Norwood is a Fellow of the Optical Society, SPIE and the National Academy of Inventors, as well as a member of APS and IEEE.  He holds the Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and B.S.'s in physics and mathematics from MIT.