Biography
Dr. Kathleen Richardson is currently Pegasus Professor of Optics and Materials Science and Engineering at CREOL/College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central FL, where she runs the Glass Processing and Characterization Laboratory (GPCL). In 2018, she was appointed a Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) professor for her ongoing commitments to education and research supporting industry. Prof. Richardson and her research team carry out synthesis and characterization of novel glass and glass ceramic materials for optical applications, examining the role of structure/property relationships on resulting optical function and performance in bulk, planar and fiber optical materials. Dr. Richardson’s group has extensive industrial and government supported research developing novel materials for gradient refractive index (GRIN) optics, precision molded optics, evaluation of complex multi-material interactions in next-generation integrated opto-electronic chip design, and in optical nano-composites for advanced chem-bio and detection applications. Prof. Richardson’s group is a leading source of global expertise in the design, fabrication and characterization of next generation materials for use in infrared components and systems based on diverse optical applications. She has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, numerous proceedings and book chapters, has a broad portfolio of IP related to these advances, and has organized and chaired multiple domestic and international meetings within her discipline.
In 2016, Dr. Richardson was appointed as Curator to the Board of Trustees for the Ernst Abbe Fund, Deutsches Stiftung, GERMANY, and was elected as an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. Prof. Richardson has an extensive record of prior service, previously serving on the Board of Directors of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), as an external advisory/scientific board member for the Savannah River National Laboratory (US Dept. of Energy), Virginia Tech’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, the NSF-ERC on Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) at Princeton University and as part of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), in Sydney Australia.
Dr. Richardson is Past-President of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), a past-Chair of ACerS’ Glass and Optical Materials Division (GOMD) and a past-President of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE). She presently serves on the Coordinating Technical Committee (CTC) and Advisory Committee (AC) of the International Commission on Glass (ICG).
Professor Richardson is a recognized world leader in infrared glass research and education, and because of these efforts, currently holds the rank of Fellow, in the American Ceramic Society, the Society of Glass Technology (UK), SPIE and the Optical Society of America (OSA). Since 2006, she has served as a member of the Board of Trustees at Alfred University.
Awards & Honors
- European Ceramic Society Fellow
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow
- American Ceramic Society (ACerS) Fellow
- Society of Glass Technology Fellow
- 2020 SPIE Maria J. Yzuel Outstanding Educator Award
- 2020 The American Ceramic Society’s Greaves-Walker Award
- 2019 The Arthur L. Friedberg Award and Lecture
- 2019 Alfred R. Cooper Lecturer Award
- 2018 Pegasus Professor Award
- 2017 Sir Richard Brooks International Award, European Ceramic Society
- 2017 George W. Morey Award, American Ceramic Society
- 2017 IDeX Visiting Scholar, Université Bordeaux (FRANCE)
- 2017 Malcolm G. McClaren Distinguished Lecturer Award Rutgers University Department of Materials Science
- 2017 Excellence in Research Award
- 2016 OSA 100th anniversary Global Women of Light panelist
- 2016 Advisory Board member, Savannah River National Laboratory
- 2016 External Advisor, EUCerMat program (EU)
- 2016 Curator, Ernst Abbe Foundation (Germany)
- 2016 Nominee, Air Force Science Advisory Board
- 2015 Academician, World Academy of Ceramics
- 2013 Indian Ceramic Society I.D. Varshnei Award
- 2009 Award for Faculty Excellence, Clemson University Board of Trustees (2005, 2007, 2009)
- 2009 Outstanding Educator Award, American Ceramic Society, Ceramic Education Council (CEC)
- 2009 Member, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society
- 2008 Samuel R. Scholes Lecture and Award, Alfred University, Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering
- 2008 Featured lecturer, SPIE Women in Optics Lecture, SPIE Photonics West meeting, San Jose CA
- 2006 Featured Scientist, in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), “Women in Optics”
- 2003 Society of Glass Technology (SGT), United Kingdom, Fellow
Research Group
Infrared optical glass and glass ceramics, photosensitive infrared materials, integrated MIR Planar sensors, optics manufacturing science, mid-infrared optical metrology, precision glass molding (PGM), graded index optical materials.Faculty
Scientists
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Publications
Sensong An, Bowen Zheng, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Hong Tang, Hang Li, Li Zhou, Jun ding, Anuradha Murthy Agarwal, Clara Rivero-Baleine, Myungkoo Kang, Kathleen A. Richardson, Tian Gu, Juejun Hu, Clayton Fowler and Hualiang Zhang "A Deep Learning Modeling Approach for Metasurfaces with High Degrees of Freedom" Opt. Exp. Vol. 28 No. 21 31932-31944 (2020) (2020)
Ricardo Alvarado, Lara Karam, Redouane Dahmani, Antoine Lepicard, Florian Calzavara, Andréa Piarristeguy, Annie Pradel, Thierry Cardinal, Fréderic Adamietz, Evelyne Fargin, Matthieu Chazot, Kathleen Richardson, Luc Vellutini, Marc Dussauze, "Patterning of the surface electrical potential on chalcogenide glasses by a thermo-electrical imprinting process" Journal of Physical Chemistry C, https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06507 (2020)
Anupama Yadav, Myungkoo Kang, Claudia Goncales, Cesar Blanco, Rashi Sharma, and Kathleen Richardson, "Impact of raw material surface oxide removal on dual band infrared optical properties of As2Se3 chalcogenide glass" Optical Materials Express, 10(9), pp. 2274-2288 (2020)
Structurally and morphologically engineered chalcogenide materials for optical and photonic devices Casey M. Schwarz, Stephen M. Kuebler, Clara Rivero-Baleine, Brandon Triplett, Myungkoo Kang, Quentin Altemose, Cesar Blanco, Kathleen A. Richardson, Qingyang Du, Skylar Deckoff-Jones, Juejun Hu, Yifei Zhang, Ying Pan, Carlos Ríos "Structurally and morphologically engineered chalcogenide materials for optical and photonic devices" submitted, J. Opt. Microsystems (2020)
L. Karam, F. Adamietz, D. Michau, C. Gonçalves, M. Kang, R. Sharma, G.S. Murugan, T. Cardinal, E. Fargin, V. Rodriguez, K.A. Richardson and M. Dussauze "Electrically Micro-Polarized Amorphous Sodo-Niobate Film Competing with Crystalline Lithium Niobate Second-Order Optical Response" Advanced Optical Materials, 8(13), A. 2000202 (2020)
Carlos Ríos, Yifei Zhang, Mikhail Shalaginov, Skylar Deckoff-Jones, Haozhe Wang, Sensong An, Hualiang Zhang, Myungkoo Kang, Kathleen A. Richardson, Christopher Roberts, Jeffrey Chou, Vladimir Liberman, Steven Vitale, Jing Kong, Tian Gu, Juejun Hu "Multi-level Electro-thermal Switching of Optical Phase-Change Materials Using Graphene" Advanced Optical Materials. (submitted) (2020)
Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Sensong An, Yifei Zhang, Fan Yang, Peter Su, Vladimir Liberman, Jeffrey B. Chou, Christopher M. Roberts, Myungkoo Kang, Carlos Rios, Qingyang Du, Clayton Fowler, Anuradha Agarwal, Kathleen A. Richardson, Clara Rivero-Baleine, Hualiang Zhang, Juejun Hu, and Tian Gu, "Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction limited performance" Nature Communications (submitted) (2020)
L. Karam, F. Adamietz, V. Rodriguez, F. Bondu, A. Lepicard, T. Cardinal, E. Fargin, K.A. Richardson and M. Dussauze "The effect of the sodium content on the structure and the optical properties of thermally poled niobium borophosphate glasses" Journal of Applied Physics, 128(4), A. 043106 (2020)
Kathleen A. Richardson, Myungkoo Kang, Laura Sisken, Anupama Yadav, Spencer Novak, Antoine Lepicard, Isabelle Martin, Hugues Francois-Saint-Cyr, Casey M. Schwarz, Theresa S. Mayer, Clara Rivero-Baleine, Anthony J. Yee, Ilya Mingareev, "Advances in infrared gradient refractive index (GRIN) materials: a Review" Optical Engineering 59(11), 112602 (2020)
M. Kang, B. -U. Sohn, Q. Du, D. Ma, R. Pujari, L. Sisken, C. Blanco, C. Goncalves, C. Arias, A. Yadav, S. Novak, C. M. Schwarz, R. Gaume, J. Hu, A. M. Agarwal, D. T. H. Tan, and K. A. Richardson, "Atomistic Origins behind the Time-Dependent Optical Evolution of Ge-Sb-S Chalcogenide Glasses upon Gamma Irradiation" Physical Review Letters (submitted) (2020)
A. Durán, L Hu, K.A. Richardson "Editorial special issue - women in glass" International Journal of Applied Glass Science 11:383–384 (2020)
Sensong An, Bowen Zheng, Hong Tang, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Li Zhou, Hang Li, Myungkoo Kang, Kathleen A. Richardson, Tian Gu, Juejun Hu, Clayton Fowler, Hualiang Zhang, "Multifunctional Metasurface Design with a Generative Adversarial Network" ACS Nano (submitted) (2020)
M. Kang, L. Sisken, C. Lonergan, A. Buff, A. Yadav, C. Goncalves, C. Blanco, P. Wachtel, J.D. Musgraves, A.V. Pogrebnyakov, E. Baleine, C. Rivero-Baleine, T.S. Mayer, C.G. Pantano, and K.A. Richardson "Monolithic Chalcogenide Optical Nanocomposites Enable Infrared System Innovation: Gradient Refractive Index Optics" Advanced Optical Materials, A. 2000150 (2020)
Qingyang Du, Zhao Li, Chaopeng Wang, Jinhai Zou, Tuanjie Du, Kathleen A. Richardson, Zhiping Cai, Juejun Hu, Zhengqian Luo "Photonic chip-based tunable ultrafast Raman soliton source with ultra-low power consumption " Nature Photonics (submitted) (2020)
Sensong An, Bowen Zheng, Hong Tang, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Li Zhou, Hang Li, Myungkoo Kang, Kathleen A. Richardson, Tian Gu, Juejun Hu, Clayton Fowler, Hualiang Zhang "Multifunctional Metasurface Design with a Generative Adversarial Network" Advanced Materials (submitted) (2020)
C.M. Schwarz, M. Kang, Q. Altemose, K. Raichle, B. Schnable, C. Grabill, J. Rice, M. Truman, C. Pantano, I. Mingareev, L. Sisken, C. Rivero-Baleine, K.A. Richardson and S.M. Kuebler "Processing and properties of novel ZnO–Bi2O3–B2O3 glass-ceramic nanocomposites" Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 820, A. 153173 (2020)
I. Mingareev, M. Kang, M. Truman, J. Qin, G.F. Yin, J.J. Hu, C.M. Schwarz, I.B. Murray, M.C. Richardson and K.A. Richardson "Spatial tailoring of the refractive index in infrared glass-ceramic films enabled by direct laser writing " Optics and Laser Technology, 126, A. 106058 (2020)
J. Michon, S. Geiger, L. Li, C. Goncalves, H.T. Lin, K. Richardson, X.Q. Jia, and J.J. Hu "3D integrated photonics platform with deterministic geometry control" Photonics Research, 8(2), pp. 194-201 (2020)
J.Y. Li, Y.Z. Huang, Y. Song, L. Li, H.Y. Zheng, H.Z. Wang, T. Gu, K.A. Richardson, J. Kong, J.J. Hu and H.T. Lin "High-performance graphene-integrated thermo-optic switch: design and experimental validation" Optical Materials Express, 10(2), pp. 387-396 (2020)
R. Sharma, R.S. Welch, M. Kang, C. Goncalves, C. Blanco, A. Buff, V. Fauvel, T. Loretz, C. Rivero-Baleine and K.A. Richardson "Impact of Morphology and Microstructure on the Mechanical Properties of Ge-As-Pb-Se Glass Ceramics" Applied Science, 10(8), A. 2836 (2020)
Alumni
PhD
Laura Sisken, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2017Antoine Lepicard, Materials Science Ph.D., Fall 2016
Clara Rivero Baleine, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2005
Cedric Lopez, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2004
Hugues Francois-Saint-Cyr, Materials Science Ph.D., Spring 2001
MS
Daniel McGill, Optics M.S., Spring 2019Andrew Buff, Materials Science M.S., Summer 2016
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