In 2006, Dr. Peter Roos founded Bridger Photonics with two graduate school colleagues. Dr. Roos blends a rigorous technical background in laser physics with many years of executive experience leading Bridger Photonics. As an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado, Dr. Roos researched diode lasers alongside Nobel Laureate Dr. Carl Wieman. Under Dr. Roos’s leadership, Inc. Magazine ranked Bridger Photonics as 2011’s fastest-growing privately held U.S. company in the engineering sector. In 2012, Bridger Photonics received the Tibbetts Award along with the Montana Governor’s Innovative BusinessAward. And in 2019, Bridger Photonics’ Gas Mapping LiDAR™ was selected for a 2019 R&D 100 award recognizing the top 100 innovations worldwide in that year.