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Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship:
2007 AWARDEE - FLORIAN FOURNIER
Award Year 2007
Florian Fournier, a graduate research assistant at The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, was selected as the 2007 Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship awardee. Florian's supervisor is Dr Jannick Rolland, Associate Professor of Optics, College of Optics
and Photonics, CREOL. The award was presented at the UK Optical Design Meeting (UK ODM) on 19 September 2007 by Tina Kidger at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, UK. The award consists of a $5,000 cash grant supported by the Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship Fund.
In the following Florian discusses a few details of his education and experience:
My first contact with optics happened in the science museum of Paris when I was about
14 years old. I saw there the image of a metallic spring floating in air, and my hand could
go through it. The image was created by a spherical mirror, but the illusion
still strikes me whenever I see it. I really started diving into the field of optics at the Institut d’Optique, one of the few optical engineering schools in Europe. By the end of my second year at the Institut d’Optique, I decided to go to an off-campus location which specialized in optical system design and optical measurement for industry. Much to my surprise, I discovered that most engineers who deal with optics in industry don’t have a formal optics background. It convinced me that a career in optics was a good choice.
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