Kristina M. Johnson
| Kristina M. Johnson | |
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| Born |
May 7, 1957 St. Louis, MO, United States |
| Residence | Washington, DC |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Optical engineering |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Known for | Advances in optoelectronics, Liquid Crystal electro-optics, 3D imaging |
| Notable awards |
International Dennis Gabor Award John Fritz Medal National Inventors Hall of Fame National Academy of Engineering National Academy of Inventors |
Kristina M. Johnson (born May 7, 1957) is an American business executive, engineer, academic, and former government official, and Chancellor-elect of the State University of New York. She has been a leader in the development of optoelectronic processing systems, 3-D imaging, and color-management systems.
Kristina Johnson grew up in Denver, Colorado. She attended Hamilton Junior High School, where she founded the environmental club. As a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School, she won the Denver City and Colorado State science fair competitions, and placed second in the Physics division and a first place award from the Air Force at the International Science Fair for her project entitled, "Holographic Study of the Sporangiophore Phycomyces". Johnson grew up in a large, athletic family. She competed in Tae Kwon Do and learned to play lacrosse on the boys' lacrosse team. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, Johnson founded the women's club lacrosse team (now varsity) and played on the field hockey team, trying out for the US Team in 1978. In 1979, Johnson was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease and turned her focus to an academic career. Dr. Johnson received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
After the postdoctoral fellowship, Johnson was appointed assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1985, where she co-founded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Optoelectronic Computing Systems and spun off several companies from her research laboratory including ColorLink, Inc which was later sold to RealD, responsible for the technology that helped re-launch the 3D movie industry. Additionally, she co-founded the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute Center of Excellence in Optoelectronics. In 1999, Johnson was appointed Dean of the School of Engineering at Duke University, which would be later named for distinguished alumnus, Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., CEO emeritus of Pfizer Corporation.
In 2007, Johnson became the Senior Vice-President and Provost of Johns Hopkins University. In 2009, Johnson was appointed by President Obama as the Under Secretary of Energy at the US Department of Energy with the unanimous consent of the US Senate.
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