Selina Farwell

Selina Farwell has extensive work experience in the field of optoelectronics and fiber optics. Selina started their career in 1990 as a Sponsored Undergraduate at QinetiQ, where they were involved in M.O.D. projects. From 1996 to 1997, they worked as a Research Fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, specializing in the design and fabrication of fused fiber devices.

In 1997, Farwell joined Corning Incorporated as a Development Engineer, focusing on multi-clad coupler research and WDM coupler design. Selina then moved on to Nortel in 1999, where they served as a Product Engineer responsible for the development of Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifiers.

After their time at Nortel, Farwell joined Bookham in 2001 as a Senior Design Engineer, where they worked on the design of erbium doped fiber amplifiers and Raman amplifiers. During their tenure, they created C++ based gain models and designed Bookham's range of distributed Raman amplifiers.

In 2011, Farwell joined OCLARO as a Senior Principal Engineer, leading projects in InP chip development for 400G/600G transmission products. Selina also served as the project leader for the OCLARO InP 200G Coherent Receiver chip, contributing to a paper published at OFC2014.

Most recently, Farwell is employed at Lumentum since 2018. Selina holds the role of Senior Principal Engineer and is also the leader of the Women at Lumentum UK & Italy Employee Resource Group.

Selina Farwell completed their education at the University of Southampton, where they obtained a BSc degree in Physics from 1990 to 1993. Selina then pursued further studies at the same institution, earning a PhD in Design and Manufacture of Active Fibre Optic Devices from 1993 to 1996. Additionally, Selina attended Dyson Perrins, though the dates and field of study for this school are not provided.