Donna Strickland

Donna Strickland is a Canadian physicist and university teacher born in Guelph in 1959. She holds citizenship in Canada and speaks English. Her professional interests include physics, optics, laser science, and nonlinear optics. She has served as a university teacher at the University of Waterloo and the National Research Council Canada, and has worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Strickland received her education at McMaster University and the University of Rochester. She studied under doctoral advisor Gérard Mourou. Her academic affiliations include membership in Optica, the Royal Society of Canada, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She has held the position of president.

Her awards include the Nobel Prize in Physics, a Sloan Fellowship, the BBC 100 Women recognition, and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the Royal Society collection.