Craig Ciesla

Independent Director

Craig Ciesla is a member of Lightwave Logic’s board of directors since January 2022. He is vice president for hardware engineering at 10X Genomics, a leading life sciences company. Previously, Craig served as Illumina Inc.’s vice president and head of advanced platforms and devices, leading a team driving innovation in sequencing platforms, microfluidics, and nanofabrication.

During his career, Craig has held a variety of fiber optics industry leadership roles, including for Intel, JDSU, Bookham (now Lumentum), Ignis Optics. At Kaiam, as vice president of engineering, he was responsible for the development and production of 100G transceivers. As the founding CEO of Tactus Technology, Craig co-invented its polymer morphing screen technology.

Craig holds a BSc (Hons.) in Applied Physics and doctorate in Physics from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.