Duncan Moore

Biography

Duncan T. Moore was president of the Optical Society of America in 1996 and was awarded the society's Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award in 2001, the Edwin H. Land Medal in 2009, and was elected as a Fellow member. Moore is the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering, as well as professor of business administration in the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, and the vice provost for entrepreneurship, all at the University of Rochester. From 2002 until 2004, he served as president and chief executive officer of the Infotonics Technology Center Inc., an industry, academia, and government partnership to foster cutting-edge research, prototyping of new technology, and economic development in Upstate New York, with an operating budget of $15 million and a capital budget of $25 million in 2004. Prior to this, from 1995 until the end of 1997, he served as dean of engineering and applied sciences at the University of Rochester. He also served as president of the Optical Society of America (OSA), a professional organization with more than 12,000 members throughout the world, in 1996. Moore was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in the fall of 1997 for the position of associate director for technology in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). In this position, which ended in December 2000, he worked with Neal Francis Lane, President Clinton’s Science Advisor, to advise the President on U.S. technology policy, including the Next Generation Internet, Clean Car Initiative, National Nanotechnology Initiative, ElderTech, and CrimeTech. From January through May 2001, Moore served as Special Advisor to the Acting Director of OSTP. Since the summer of 2005, Moore has been a consulting professor at Stanford University, where he has worked on its Center for Longevity to create an international, interdisciplinary research and teaching network focused on solving fundamental physical

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