Izabela Naydenova is a Bulgarian researcher in holography, holographic materials and nanostructures, and holographic sensors. She is a professor at Technological University Dublin, where she is head of discipline for physics and clinical measurement science in the School of Physics, Clinical and Optometric Sciences,[1] and scientific director of the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics.[2]

Education and career

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Naydenova studied applied optics at Sofia University, graduating in 1993. She completed a Ph.D. in physics through the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1999.[2]

After three years of postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Munich, she came to the Dublin Institute of Technology (now Technological University Dublin) for a second term of postdoctoral research, as an Arnold F. Graves fellow. She became a lecturer at the institute in 2008, a professor in 2017, and scientific director of the Centre for Industrial and Engineering Optics in 2021.[2]

Recognition

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Naydenova was named as a 2023 Optica Fellow, "for contributions to holographic materials, sensors, and modeling, and outstanding service to the community".[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Izabela Naydenova PhD", School of Physics, Clinical and Optometric Sciences, Technological University Dublin, retrieved 2023-07-23
  2. ^ a b c "Izabela Naydenova", ORCiD, retrieved 2023-07-23
  3. ^ Elected fellows, Optica, retrieved 2023-07-23
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