Dr. Rosario Porras-Aguilar is an Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte in the Department of Physics and Optical Science since 2017. Dr. Porras-Aguilar is the Principal Investigator of the Active and Reconfigurable Optics Laboratory. Her research interest is in developing microscopy techniques to obtain quantitative data in three dimensions with applications in microbiology and industry. She was recently awarded an NSF-CAREER award of $500,000 for “Smart Imaging and Metrology enabled by Liquid Crystals” and the Cottrell Scholar Award of $100,000 for “Label-Free Reconfigurable Microscopy with High Specificity.” She is co-PI on several research projects through the Center for Freeform Optics and the Center for Precision Metrology.
Postdocs
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Research Visitors
Mateusz Szatkowski, October-December 2021, Sponsor by The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange
Outcomes: Quantifying the quality of optical vortices by evaluating their intensity distributions
Marta Mikula, August-October 2019,
Outcomes: Single-shot phase calibration of a spatial light modulator using geometric phase interferometry
Co-Supervised Students