Angela Dudley
Angela Louise Dudley is a South African laser scientist whose research involves beam shaping, optical modes, Bessel beams, and structured light, with applications including optical communication and additive manufacturing.[1][2][3][4] She is a senior lecturer in physics at the University of the Witwatersrand.[5]
Education and career[edit]
Dudley chose to study physics because it had few women, giving her more opportunities.[1] She has bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal,[5] where she studied from 2002 to 2012.[6] Her 2012 doctoral dissertation, Superpositions of light fields carrying orbital angular momentum, was supervised by Andrew Forbes.[7]
She worked for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research from 2008 to 2018, at the National Laser Centre in Pretoria, before taking her present position at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2019.[6]
Recognition[edit]
Dudley was one of two recipients of the 2015 Silver Jubilee Medal for early career achievement of the South African Institute of Physics.[8] Optica named her as a 2024 Optica Fellow, "for foundational contributions to the all-digital control of structured light, and for outstanding service to the international optics community".[9]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Angela Dudley", SPIE Women in Optics Planner, SPIE, 2018, retrieved 2023-11-14
- ^ "Future of faster internet is so bright Wits team are wearing shades", TimesLIVE, 10 June 2016, retrieved 2023-11-14
- ^ Drs. Patience Mthunzi-Kufa and Angela Dudley fly CSIR flag high, CSIR, 17 September 2017, retrieved 2023-11-14
- ^ Oosthuizen, Jessica (14 September 2018), "CSIR NLC to develop local photonics industry", Engineering News, retrieved 2023-11-14
- ^ a b "Doctor Angela Dudley, School of Physics", Academic A-Z Listing, University of the Witwatersrand, retrieved 2023-11-14
- ^ a b "Angela Louise Dudley", ORCiD, retrieved 2023-11-14
- ^ Dudley, Angela (2012), Superpositions of light fields carrying orbital angular momentum (Doctoral dissertation), University of KwaZulu-Natal, hdl:10204/6374
- ^ Nedebeck, K. Mueller (August 2015), "SAIP Awards 2 Silver Medals at SAIP2015" (PDF), Physics Comment: A South African Physics Magazine, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 7, retrieved 2023-11-14
- ^ Optica Announces 2024 Fellows Class, Optica, 30 October 2023, retrieved 2023-11-14
External links[edit]
- Angela Dudley publications indexed by Google Scholar
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