Saiedeh Saghafi
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Biography
Saiedeh Saghafi received her BSc degree in applied physics from the University of Tehran. In 1996, she started her MSc degree in optical physics at University of Sydney in Professor Colin Sheppard group. She studied Gaussian beam propagation in and beyond the paraxial approximation. In 1998, she won an overseas postgraduate award to attend the PhD program in the Physics Department at Macquarie University in Australia. In 2000, she won two research awards from the Australian Optical Society and IEEE/LEOS Graduate Fellowship. In 2001, she received her PhD in modal analysis of lasers employing unstable resonators. Her thesis was nominated for the AIP Bragg gold medal for the best PhD thesis. She held a postdoctoral position for one year in CLA—Centre for lasers and Applications. Then, she worked as an assistant professor in the Biophotonics group at IAU, working on the medical applications of laser beam. Since 2008, she has worked with Professor Hans-Ulrich Dodt at Vienna University of Technology, FKE, Department of Bioelectronics on Ultramicroscopy techniques.