Jennifer E. Hastie is a British physicist specialising in the design of lasers, including Raman lasers based on synthetic diamond crystals,[1][2] and vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting-lasers.
[3] She is a professor of physics at the University of Strathclyde, where she directs the Institute of Photonics.
[4] Hastie studied laser physics and optoelectronics at the University of Strathclyde, earning a bachelor's degree in 2000 and completing her PhD in 2004.
[5] She continued working at the University of Strathclyde after completing her doctorate,[6] initially under a five-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Optica named her as a 2024 Optica Fellow, "for leadership in the photonics and quantum technology community and pioneering technical contributions in the area of narrow-linewidth lasers".