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Prof Chris Dainty
Emeritus Professor
Institute of Ophthalmology
Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Joined UCL
- 1st Aug 2013
Research summary
Research Interests
Professor Dainty's research interests are in optical imaging, scattering and propagation. In these areas he has published books: 'Scattering in Volumes and Surfaces' (1989, co-edited with M Nieto-Vesperinas), 'Laser Speckle and Related Phenomena' (1975, 2nd Ed. 1984, editor) and 'Image Science' (1974) which he co-authored with Rodney Shaw. His past research interests are adaptive optics, vision science, scattering, atmospheric propagation, polarisation and partially coherent imaging. His current interests are focussed in imaging and metrology, especially in the eye.
Teaching summary
Teaching Interests
Professor Dainty has been active in teaching optics and physics throughout his career, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and in continuing education. He has supervised 65 PhD Theses and mentored >75 post-docs.
Biography
Lecturer in Physics at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London 1974 to 1978.
Chris Dainty is the 1984 recipient of the International Commission of Optics Prize (ICO), the 1993 Thomas Young Medal and Prize (UK Institute of Physics), the 2003 C E K Mees Medal and Prize (OSA), the Optics and Photonics Division Prize 2004 (IoP) and the 2017 Robert E Hopkins Leadership Award (OSA). He is also a Fellow of The Optical Society of America, SPIE, The Institute of Physics (UK) and The European Optical Society. From 1983 to 1985 and 2005 to 2007 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America: 1987–1990 he was elected Secretary-General of the ICO, President for the term 1990–1993 and was Past-President for 1993 to 1996: and 1994 to 1996 he was elected to the Board of SPIE. Prof Dainty served on the Council of the UK Institute of Physics (1996 – 1999). He was President of The European Optical Society from 2002 to 2004. In 2011, he was President of the Optical Society of America. From 1994 to 2002 he was editor of Optics Communications, handling almost 5000 manuscripts over nine years. He was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2008.