Society of Women Engineers, Boston Section – May Meeting
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technology Investments and Career Development
Sponsored by MIT Lincoln Laboratory
| Dr. Bernadette Johnson, Chief Technology Officer for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, will give a technical presentation on Lincoln Laboratory's current advanced technology and describe her path to becoming the Chief Technology Officer at one of the Nation's major Research and Development Centers.
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Date: May 25, 2010 |
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| Cost: Free for MIT Lincoln Laboratory employees$5 Student $10 Unemployed/Retired SWE member $15 SWE member $25 Non-member |
About our Speaker: Dr. Bernadette Johnson
Dr. Bernadette Johnson is Chief Technology Officer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Her responsibilities include the development of the Laboratory's long-term technology strategy and the coordination of collaborative research with MIT campus. Prior to this position, Dr. Johnson was Assistant Head of the Homeland Protection and Tactical Systems Division. Her technical foci were in military and civilian chemical and biological defense and forensics sensing, and she led a study to develop a strategic plan for bioscience research at Lincoln Laboratory. She was and remains actively involved in technology innovation initiatives.
Since joining Lincoln Laboratory in 1985, she has been involved in a number of programs related to laser-based propagation and sensing and, more recently, biodetection. Examples of past work include experiments in adaptive optics to facilitate high-energy-laser propagation through the atmosphere, the adaptation and installation of a declassified adaptive optics system on the 60" telescope at Mt. Wilson Observatory, and investigations into the use of photorefractive InP:Fe for applications including wide-field-of-view heterodyne receivers. From 1993 through 1996, she directed the Environmental Monitoring Project, which was established to adapt Lincoln Laboratory technologies to environmental-monitoring applications.
Dr. Johnson subsequently became involved in experiments to investigate microlaser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for in situ elemental analysis. She then developed and managed a program to investigate the feasibility and utility of combining active illumination with hyperspectral imaging for a variety of military and civilian applications, including unexploded ordnance and land-mine sensing.
In 1999, she became involved with Lincoln Laboratory’s growing biodetection program area. From 2001 until 2007, Dr. Johnson served as Leader of the Biodefense Systems Group.
Dr. Johnson is a 2007 recipient of the Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence Award for her system-level architecting, technical innovation, and prototype demonstration. She holds a BS in physics from Dickinson College, an MS in condensed matter theory from Georgetown University, and a PhD in plasma physics from Dartmouth College.
About our Sponsor: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MIT Lincoln Laboratory has pioneered in advanced electronics since its origin in 1951 as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Laboratory's fundamental mission is to apply science and advanced technology to critical problems of national security
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