Ursula Gibson

Ursula Jane Gibson is a professor of physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology who specialises in novel core optical fibres. Gibson was elected in 2017 as the president of The Optical Society which commenced in 2019.

Ursula Jane Gibson
in 2014
Alma materDartmouth College
Cornell University
Scientific career
InstitutionsNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Dartmouth College
University of Arizona
ThesisOptical and Structural Properties of Thin Film Composites (1982)

Early life and education

Gibson received in A.B. in physics from Dartmouth College.[1] She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Cornell University under the supervision of Robert Buhrman in 1978 and 1982, respecviely.[2][3][4] Her graduate research was in the area of thin film composites.[3] During her doctoral work she held a Bell Laboratories Graduate Research Program for Women grant, and spent two summers working at Bell Labs.[5]

Research and career

Gibson was appointed to the faculty of the University of Arizona, working in the Optical Sciences Center.[6] She was made associate professor at the University of Arizona.[7] In 1990 Gibson returned to the faculty in the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.[2] Here she taught materials science and nanotechnology.[8] She was elected to the board of directors of The Optical Society in 2002.[9]

Ursula Gibson, at the NTNU, Faculty of Natural Sciences

Gibson joined the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2010.[10][11] She is an adjunct professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.[12] She was elected to the International Commission on Optics Bureau in 2011.[13] She works on optical materials and nanostructures, with a focus on photovoltaic cells.[14][15]

Gibson's research on optical materials has been wide ranging, including polymers, protein crystals and semiconductors, with an emphasis on limited dimension structures such as thin films and waveguides.  She holds three patents and has authored 7 book contributions and over 100 refereed journal articles with 2300 citations.  Prof. Gibson’s present research is focused on semiconductor-core optical fibers and MBE-grown films for mid-infrared applications[16].

Gibson works on novel core optical fibres made from group IV and III-V semiconductors.[17] These contain semiconductors with nonlinear optical and electro-optic materials, which can be produced in bulk quantities.[1] The fibres have low thermal mass and good aspect ratios, which allow for laser heat treatment that results in recrystallization and spatial segregation of alloy constituents. This allowed Gibson to specify where the germanium is located throughout crystalline SiGe core fibres. Rapid cooling allows the mixture to form a single crystal, which is optimised for optical transmission.[18] Together with physicist Zahra Ghadyani, Gibson founded the company NorFib to commercialize a fiber-based system for generating electricity with solar energy.[19][20]

In 2017 she was elected to Academia Net by the Swedish Research Council.[7] Gibson was elected to be the 2019 president of The Optical Society.[21][22]

Gibson has held visiting positions at the United States Air Force Academy, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Tampere University of Technology (Finland), Chalmers University (Sweden), and the University of Queensland (Australia), among others. She has served as a consultant for many enterprises, including Kodak Inc., the US Department of Defense and the American University of Kuwait[16].

Awards and honours

Personal life

Gibson is married to Ulf Österberg, an electronic engineer at NTNU.[26]

References
  1. "Jones Seminar: Semiconductor-core glass fibers—from solar cell to telecommunication applications | Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth". thayer.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  2. "Riao 2019". www.riao.org.mx. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  3. "Former Members – Buhrman Research Group". buhrman-group.aep.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  4. "Featured Speaker Bios – Buhrman: The First 50 Years at Cornell". buhrman50.aep.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  5. "The Optical Society Elects Ursula Gibson as 2017 Vice President". www.businesswire.com. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  6. "Research Group - People - Faculty". folk.ntnu.no. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  7. "Prof. Ursula Gibson - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  8. "Ursula Gibson". EngineerGirl. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  9. "The Optical Society Elects Ursula Gibson as 2017 Vice President | News Releases | The Optical Society".
  10. Fossen, Christian. "Ursula Gibson". www.ntnu.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  11. Fossen, Christian. "Ursula Gibson". www.ntnu.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  12. "KTH | Ursula Jane Gibson". www.kth.se. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  13. "ICO Bureau 2011-2014 | International Commission for Optics". e-ico.org. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  14. "Optical Materials and Nanostructures Group". folk.ntnu.no. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  15. "Cheaper silicon means cheaper solar cells". spacedaily.com. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  16. "OSA president".
  17. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.8.001435%22Dillard+University+%7C+Dillard+University's+Department+of+Physics+welcomed+Professor+Ursula+Gibson,+Ph.D.%22+www.dillard.edu.+Retrieved+2019-04-27.
  18. Coucheron, David A.; Fokine, Michael; Patil, Nilesh; Breiby, Dag Werner; Buset, Ole Tore; Healy, Noel; Peacock, Anna C.; Hawkins, Thomas; Jones, Max (2016-10-24). "Laser recrystallization and inscription of compositional microstructures in crystalline SiGe-core fibres". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 13265. Bibcode:2016NatCo...713265C. doi:10.1038/ncomms13265. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 5079062. PMID 27775066.
  19. Jakobsen, Johannes (2018-03-01). "Solcellegründer Zahra Ghadyani til topps: Gjør teknologien både billigere og enda mer miljøvennlig". shifter.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  20. "NorFib AS: Private Company Information". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  21. "The Optical Society Elects Ursula Gibson as 2017 Vice President". OSA. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  22. "Officers". The Optical Society. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  23. Read "Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading Edge Engineering from the 1997 NAE Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering" at NAP.edu. 1998. doi:10.17226/6041. ISBN 978-0-309-05983-1.
  24. "Testimonials | National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE)". Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  25. Rygg, Inga (2017-06-16). "Professor ved NTNU blir president i Optical Society of America". universitetsavisa.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  26. "Cummings and Goings: New and Departing Profs | Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth". engineering.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
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