Dr. Paul Jaanimagi shared the concept, design, assembly and testing of the ROSS (Rochester Optical Streak System), a universal streak camera platform, with Robert Boni.

Dr. Jaanimagi has been a scientist in the OMEGA experimental group at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics for almost 20 years. Prior to that, he was a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California; and research scientist at both the University of Hawaii, Honolulu and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Jaanimagi is co-inventor of U.S. Patent #6,642,499, “a system for photometric calibration of optoelectronic imaging devices, especially streak cameras.” He has authored twelve papers in streak cameras and photonics and was granted the Photo-Sonics Achievement Award by the International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics.

Dr. Jaanimagi received his Ph.D. and M.S. in physics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and his B.S. in physics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.