Susana Marcos Celestino

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Susana Marcos Celestino
BornSeptember 25, 1970
Salamanca (Spain)
NationalitySpanish
Alma mater University of Salamanca
AwardsFellow of Optica

Adolph Lomb Medal (2002) Selección Española de la Ciencia (2016) Premio Rey Jaime I a las Nuevas Tecnologías (2017) Medalla Ramón y Cajal (2019)

Premio Nacional de Investigación Leonardo Torres Quevedo (2019)

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Scientific career
FieldsOptics
Institutions CSIC

Susana Marcos Celestino (born September 25, 1970) is a Spanish physicist specialising in human vision and applied optics. She was the Director of Optica (formerly the Optical Society) in 2012. [1]

Through studies in ocular imaging, she has pioneered the development of innovative intraocular lenses and the detection of ocular pathogens and infections. Notably, she co-created a visual simulator for presbyopia and cataract intraocular lenses, providing a pre-surgical assessment. This simulator is a product of 2EyesVision, a company [2] she co-founded. [3] [4]

In July 2021, she was appointed Director of Center for Visual Science, with dual affiliation in Optics and in Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester.

Education

Marcos studied at the University of Salamanca in her hometown and obtained an M.Sc. and then Ph.D. in Physics, which she was granted with a special award. After training as a fellow in the Conseyu Cimeru d'Investigaciones Científiques (CSIC). His PhD advisor was the scientist Pablo Artal. She had postdoctoral training in Europe and the United States. [5]

Academic career

Marcos Celestino's work focuses upon the development of diagnostic and correctional instruments in ophthalmology. [6] [7]

From 1993 to 1996, Celestino had a predoctoral fellowship in the Department of Vision and Physiological Optics at the Institute of Optics of the CSIC in Madrid, Spain. Celestino spent three years, from 1997 to 2000, as a postdoctoral researcher in Schepens Eye Research Institute of the Harvard University Medical School in Boston. [5]

Celestino went back to Spain in 2000, getting a position at the CSIC, first as a senior scientist and later as a research professor. In 2005 she got the position of titular scientist of the CSIC, developing her own Institute of Optics. In 2006, she was awarded the position of professor of research at the CSIC, and in 2008 she was nominated director of the Institute of Optics "Daza de Valdés". She held this position until 2012. [8]

Marcos Celestino was awarded the King Jaime Prize in New Technologies, the Physics, Innovation and Technology Prize of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics, [9] [5] the Adolph Lomb Prize of Optica and the ICO Prize from the International Optics commission. [8] In 2019, Marcos Celestino was awarded the 'Leonardo Torres Quevedo' National Award in the field of engineering. [6] [10] In 2023, she received Optica and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology's Edwin H. Land Medal, "For pioneering developments and translation of diagnostic and correction ophthalmic technologies impacting millions of patients worldwide." [11]

Participation in professional societies

Funding and scholarships

Celestino was the recipient of the following scholarships for research:[ citation needed ]

Patents

Celestino patented several methods and elements that modify or improve optical deficiencies and with crucial advances in ophthalmology. [9] This has been described as unusual for a Spanish scientist. [7]

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