Christopher Dainty is a professor who researches optical imaging, scattering and propagation.
[1] In these areas he has published books: Scattering in Volumes and Surfaces (1989, co-edited with M Nieto-Vesperinas), Laser Speckle and Related Phenomena (1975, 2nd Ed.
From 1974 to 1978, Dainty was a lecturer in physics at Queen Elizabeth College of the University of London.
[4] He joined the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester 1978 and the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in July 1982.
[3] He became Pilkington Professor of Applied Optics at Imperial College in January 1984[5] and was SERC Senior Research Fellow for the period October 1987 to September 1992.