Tamer Elazhary: 2013 Awardee
Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship
College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona
The 2013 winner of the Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship award is Tamer Tawfik Elazhary, a third-year PhD student at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, under Prof. Jim Burge. Tamer is also a graduate research associate at the Large Optics Fabrication & Testing (LOFT) group. He passed his comprehensive exam in Fall 2012 and is currently working on his dissertation.
The 2013 Kidger scholarship award was presented to Tamer at the SPIE Optics + Photonics Symposium, 25 to 29 August 2013, San Diego, California.
Research Highlights
Tamer Elazhary and Tina Kidger
Kidger Scholarship Award Presentation
SPIE Optics + Photonics Symposium
25 to 29 August 2013, San Diego, California
Tamer’s thesis project is directed towards reformulating the classical Abbe’s Sine condition in a general form that enables the description of linear field-dependent aberrations of generally, axis-non-symmetric optical systems. He is also formulating other generic conditions for higher-order field-dependent aberrations. Tamer hopes that this work will open new horizons for optical design of wide classes of optical systems. Free-form, multi-apertures, gradient index, diffractive, and axis non-symmetric optical systems are examples.
Tamer did his early studies in Egypt, where he also began basic studies in lens design and applied optics at the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS). Tamer joined NARSS in 2002 as an optical engineer supporting development of the Earth remote sensing satellite “EgyptSat-1.”
Updates
2020
Tamer is currently an optical scientist at Oculus – Facebook. He is working on the development of augmented reality optics and is involved in many optical design projects.
Previously, Tamer worked at ASML as a research and development senior design engineer. Tamer’s focus was on the development of wafer alignment sensors for optical lithography machines. Wafer alignment sensors involve optical metrology having nm precision.
Elazhary Family at Disney World 2018:
Tamer, daughters Renad & Retal,
wife Doaa Emam and
son Mohamed (in front).