Tibor Juhasz | |
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| Occupation(s) | Physicist, academic |
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| Education | University of Szeged (Dipl. Phys.) University of California, Irvine (Ph.D.) |
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| Institutions | University of California, Irvine ViaLase Inc |
Tibor Juhasz is an American-Hungarian physicist and an academic. He is a professor at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine[1] as well as the CEO of ViaLase.[2]
Juhasz is most known for his work on medical applications of lasers, laser-tissue interactions, tissue biomechanics, and biomedical imaging.[3] He is the recipient of the 2002 Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize for the development and commercialization of femtosecond laser surgical technology as well as the 2022 Golden Goose Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Association of American Universities for introducing femtosecond laser technology to ophthalmology.[4]