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Ursula Jane Gibson
in 2014
Alma mater	Dartmouth College Cornell University
Scientific career
Institutions	Norwegian University of Science and Technology Dartmouth College University of Arizona
Thesis	Optical and Structural Properties of Thin Film Composites (1982)

Ursula Jane Gibson is a Professor of Physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology who specialises in novel core optical fibres. Gibson was elected in 2017 to become President of The Optical Society in 2019.

Early life and education

Gibson studied physics at Dartmouth College. She moved to Cornell University for her graduate studies. She earned her Master's degree in 1978 and her PhD in 1982. She worked under the supervision of Robert Burnham on thin film composites. After completing her doctorate, she was made a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Labs.

Research and career

Gibson was appointed to the faculty of the University of Arizona, working in the Optical Sciences Center. She was made Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. In 1990 Gibson returned to the faculty in the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Here she taught materials science and nanotechnology. She was elected to the board of directors of The Optical Society in 2002.

Gibson joined the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 2010. She is an adjunct professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She was elected to the International Commission on Optics Bureau in 2011. She works on optical materials and nanostructures, with a focus on photovoltaic cells. To improve the absorption of photovoltaic thin films, Gibson distributes gold nanoparticles on silicon wafers.

Gibson works on novel core optical fibres made from III-V semiconductors. The contain semiconductors with nonlinear optical and electro-optic materials, which can be produced in bulk quantities. The fibres have low thermal mass and good aspect ratios, which allow for laser heat treatment that results in recrystallization and spatial segregation of alloy constituents. This allowed Gibson to specify where the germanium is located throughout crystalline SiGe core fibres. Rapid cooling allows the mixture to form a single crystal, which is optimised for optical transmission. These nanostructured optical fibres can be used in endoscopes.

In 2017 she was elected to Academia Net by the Swedish Research Council. She took a sabbatical at the Thayer School of Engineering in 2008, working on glass core semiconductor optical fibres with Jifeng Liu. Gibson was appointed a Vice President of The Optical Society in 2019.

Awards and honours

• 1997 NASA/American Society for Engineering Education Visiting Research Fellow
• 2001 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers in Engineering
• 2004 NASA Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers
• 2008 Fulbright scholarship VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
• 2019 President of The Optical Society

Personal life

Gibson is married to Ulf Österberg, an electronic engineer at NTNU.

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• Dartmouth College alumni
• Cornell University alumni
• Women physicists
• American women physicists
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology faculty
• University of Arizona faculty
• Living people
• Fulbright Scholars