Christopher J. Mann

Christopher Mann is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, NAU. His research interests include image design and acquisition, reconstruction, processing, and analysis. More specifically, his focus is on developing new methods for nondestructive testing and analysis, image processing, and image-based metrology using holography and interferometry. He has extensive experience in the use of optical design software, such as Zemax, optical design, and prototyping. He is proficient in the use of a number of programming languages. His research expertise is primarily centered on the field of optics, and in particular optical interferometry and holography. His current research program conducts applied optics research and development addressing important issues of industrial and economic competitiveness, biomedical measurement science, and national security. He was awarded the Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop work in optical interferometry, through which he made contributions in a number of application areas, including industrial inspection, biological microscopy, as well as MEMS characterization for which he has three patents awarded.