Stanford Center on Longevity

Duncan Moore, PhD

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Duncan Moore, PhD

Professor of Optics

Dr. Moore has extensive experience in the academic, research, business, and government arenas of science and technology. He is an expert in gradient-index optics, computer-aided design, and the manufacture of optical systems. He has advised more than 50 graduate thesis students. In 1993, Dr. Moore began a one-year appointment as Science Advisor to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia. He also chaired the successful Hubble Independent Optical Review Panel organized in 1990 to determine the correct prescription of the Hubble Space Telescope. In addition, Dr. Moore is the founder and former president of Gradient Lens Corporation of Rochester, New York, the manufacturer of the high-quality, low-cost Hawkeye boroscope.

Since the summer of 2005, Dr. Moore has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, where he has worked on its Center for Longevity to create an international, interdisciplinary research and teaching network focused on solving fundamental physical and social problems associated with extended life expectancy. He is also Senior Fellow of Greater Rochester Enterprise. In this position, he is the initiator and organizer of the Golden Horseshoe Business Plan Contest, a competition that includes the areas of Western New York State and Southern Ontario Province.

Contact Info:

moore @ optics.rochester.edu

Phone: (650)
Fax: (650) 723- 9251