Donna Strickland is the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018, for co-inventing chirped pulse amplification, the method of generating high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses. She has made pioneering contributions to photonics, laser physics and laser matter interactions over a sustained period of time. She has published over 80 key articles in international journals and her work has been cited over 9,000 times. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society since 2008 and served as its President in 2013. Dr. Strickland is also a Fellow of SPIE. Her scientific, technical and human leadership are widely acknowledged and appreciated by her peers.