Tara Fortier

Tara Michele Fortier
Fortier in 2022, NIST official photo
Alma materConcordia University
JILA
Scientific career
InstitutionsLos Alamos National Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
University of Colorado at Boulder
ThesisPhase-stabilized modellocked lasers : from optical frequency metrology to waveform synthesis of ultrashort pulses (2004)

Tara Michele Fortier is a Canadian physicist and Project Leader in the Time and Frequency Division at National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her research considers precision optical and microwave metrology. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022 and awarded the SPIE Harold E. Edgerton Award in High-Speed Optics in 2023.