Katy Roodenko

Dr. Roodenko is the founder of Max-IR Labs. She has over 20 years of academic, industrial and entrepreneurial experience related with the development of infrared technology for civil and defense applications. She received her MSc degree from Tel-Aviv University in 2004, where she worked on the development of Scanning Near-field Infrared Microscopy in the group of prof. Katzir. She obtained her PhD degree from TU Berlin in Germany, developing novel infrared techniques and optical models for thin-film analysis.

In 2008 she joined the group of prof. Yves Chabal at UT Dallas and continued to pursue her career in semiconductor materials and the development of infrared technologies for gas sensing and thin-film characterization. In 2012, she joined IntelliEpi to work on industrial production of III-V compound semiconductors for optoelectronic applications using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Team leader and business strategist, she drives disruptive technologies to markets. Dr. Roodenko has over 30 publications in leading scientific refereed journals, as well as patents and book chapters.