Ann Catrina Coleman (Ann Catrina Bryce)

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and professor at the

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specialising in

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. Currently she is an Associate Vice President (for membership development) of the Photonics Society. Other professional activities include Associate Editor IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (2007 - 2013), Elected Member of the IEEE LEOS Board of Governors (2004 – 2006), General Co-chair of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO): Science and Innovations (2013), Program Co-chair of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO): Science and Innovations (2011).

Biography

Coleman was born in

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, Scotland, in 1956, the first daughter of Nora (McColl) and Vincent Redvers Hanna. She was educated at St. Stephen's Primary School in

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and Notre Dame High School in Dumbarton. She then graduated with a BSc degree in physics from the

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in 1978, and took teacher training at St. Andrews College of Education in

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. After two years as a high school physics teacher, she returned to the University of Glasgow and was awarded the PhD in physics in 1987. After graduating, she remained at the University of Glasgow. She joined the Optoelectronics Group of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow as a postdoctoral

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and was appointed a research fellow in 1992, becoming a senior research fellow in 1997 and professorial research fellow in 2005. She and the other members of this group are primarily recognised for their pioneering work on fabricating

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on III-V semiconductor chips based on quantum well intermixing. In 2012, Coleman joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

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working in the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. In 2013, she moved to the University of Texas at Dallas as professor of electrical engineering and materials science and engineering.

Honours and professional activities

Coleman was elected a fellow of the

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in 2008 for contributions to compound semiconductor integrated optoelectronic devices, and fellow of the

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in 2009. In 2006 she shared (with J.H. Marsh) the

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(formerly Lasers and Electro-Optics Society) Engineering Achievement Award for extensive development and commercialization of quantum well intermixing for photonic devices. Coleman has been an elected board member and vice president of the IEEE Photonics Society. She has published more than 100 papers in scholarly journals with more than 40 invited presentations and publications.

References

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