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Richard Bergstrom has worked in various roles in the field of materials engineering and optical engineering since 2006. From 2006 to 2008, they were an Optical Materials Laboratory Researcher at Rowan University, where they conducted research in the fields of Second Harmonic Generation of multifunctional materials, laser cooling, and carbon nanotubes. Richard also constructed a circuit which took a voltage from a photodiode and produced a feedback loop to a set of piezoelectric stack actuators in order to center a Coherent Verdi V-5 laser. From 2008 to 2013, they were a Materials Engineering Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, where they conducted research in the fundamental properties of Terfenol-D alloys along the morphotropic phase boundary. Since 2013, they have been employed at DigiLens Inc., first as a Director of R&D Fabrication, then as a Production Systems Manager, and finally as an Electro-Optical Engineer. In their role as Production Systems Manager, they drove R&D product lines for next-generation AR displays and developed processes to accommodate changes in optical architecture. As an Electro-Optical Engineer, they designed Labview control software for mastering of tiled large area holographic exposure process, set up and tested clear/relax times of Switchable Bragg Gratings, and designed novel copy processes for next-generation AR displays.

Richard Bergstrom received their Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2013. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelors of Science in Physics from Rowan University in 2007.