Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Colloquium
Dr. Marin Soljačić
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Enabling novel light phenomena at the subwavelength scale
10.16.24 | 4:10PM | 134 Featheringill Hall
Bio: Marin Soljačić is a Professor of Physics at MIT. He is a founder of a few companies, including WiTricity Corporation (2007) and Lightelligence (2017). His main research interests are in artificial intelligence as well as electromagnetic phenomena, focusing on nanophotonics, non-linear optics, and wireless power transfer. He is a co-author of more than 300 scientific articles, more than 100 issued US patents, and he has been invited to give more than 100 invited talks at conferences and universities around the world. He is a recipient of the Adolph Lomb medal from the Optical Society of America (2005), and the TR35 award of the Technology Review magazine (2006). In 2008, he was awarded a MacArthur fellowship “genius” grant. He is an international member of the Croatian Academy of Engineering since 2009. In 2011 he became a Young Global Leader (YGL) of the World Economic Forum. In 2014, he was awarded Blavatnik National Award, as well as Invented Here! (Boston Patent Law Association). In 2017, he was awarded “The Order of the Croatian Daystar, with the image of Ruđer Bošković”, the Croatian President’s top medal for Science. In 2017, the Croatian President also awarded him with “The Order of the Croatian Interlace” medal. He was a Highly Cited Researcher according to WoS for 2019,2020,2021,2022&2023. In 2023, he was awarded Max Born award of Optica.
Host: Justus Ndukaife