Alexandra Boltasseva Explained

Alexandra Boltasseva
Birth Date:11 January 1978
Birth Place:Kanash, Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Chuvashia
Citizenship:United States
Awards:
  • 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • 2021 Fellow of the Materials Research Society [1]
  • 2020 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) [2]
  • 2019 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[3]
  • 2018 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Finalist [4]
  • 2017 Fellow of The International Society For Optics And Photonic (SPIE)[5]
  • 2015 Fellow of The Optical Society[6]
  • 2013 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award [7]
  • 2013 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award [8]
  • 2011 MIT Technology Review Top Young Innovator [9]
  • 2009 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies [10]
  • 2008 Young Elite-Researcher Award from the Danish Councils for Independent Research [11]
Work Institution:Purdue University, Technical University of Denmark[12]
Alma Mater:Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia

Alexandra Boltasseva (born January 11, 1978) is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University,[13] and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal.[14] Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.[15]

Education and career

Boltasseva studied her bachelor and masters in physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, completing her research projects on quantum-well lasers at the Lebedev Physical Institute. She moved to the Technical University of Denmark for her PhD studies in nanophotonics and nanofabrication, working with Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi.[16] Following her PhD, Boltasseva worked at two photonics start-up companies before returning to the Technical University of Denmark as a postdoc and subsequently an associate professor. In 2008 she moved to Purdue University and is currently the Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,[17] as well as holding a courtesy appointment in Materials Engineering.

Research

Prof. A. Boltasseva’s team specializes in nano- and quantum photonics, plasmonics, optical metamaterials, optical materials, and nanofabrication. The central theme of Boltasseva’s research is finding new ways for the discovery, realization, and machine-learning-assisted optimization of nanophotonic structures - from material growth to advanced photonic designs and device demonstrations. Prof. Boltasseva’s team aims at developing new platforms to unlock properties of nanophotonic structures in previously unavailable designs and wavelength regimes and to enable new generations of low-loss, tunable, reconfigurable, semiconductor-compatible devices for applications in on-chip circuitry, information processing, data recording/storage, sensing, medical imaging and therapy, energy conversion and quantum information technologies.

Awards, honors, memberships

A. Boltasseva's research earned her a number of awards:

Optical Society

Boltasseva was assigned as editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal in 2016, taking over the role from David J. Hagan, founding editor-in-chief.[20]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021 MRS Fellows. 2021-04-09.
  2. Web site: Purdue's innovative impact further enriched as 3 engineering professors chosen as National Academy of Inventors fellows.
  3. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/News/2019/boltasseva-ieee-fellow Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva named IEEE Fellow
  4. http://blavatnikawards.org/honorees/national-finalists/ Blavatnik Award National Finalists
  5. https://spie.org/membership/explore-membership/fellows/complete-list-of-spie-fellows?SSO=1 Complete List of SPIE Fellows
  6. https://www.osa.org/en-us/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/elected_fellows/ The Optical Society Elected Fellows
  7. https://www.photonicssociety.org/awards/young-investigator-award/young-investigator-award-winners IEEE Young Investigator Award Winners
  8. https://www.mrs.org/oyi MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20221021154349/http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=1101&_ga=2.131401871.1826842336.1564841582-477850250.1564841582 MIT Technology Review - Innovators under 35 - 2011
  10. https://www.saot.fau.de/awards/saot-awards/young-researcher-award/#collapse_9 2009 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies
  11. https://politiken.dk/debat/art5504473/Kvinder-og-humanister-f%C3%A5r-sj%C3%A6ldent-Eliteforskprisen Young Elite-Researcher Award from the Danish Council for Independent Research
  12. https://www.fotonik.dtu.dk/english/About-us2/medarbejdere/DTU-Fotonik-Staff/Person?id=9675&cpid=340&tab=1 Staff, DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
  13. Web site: Alexandra Boltasseva - Materials Engineering. 2020-08-17. Materials Engineering - Purdue University. en.
  14. Web site: OSA Publishing Announces New Editors-in-Chief for Three Journals. CNBC. 2016-01-07.
  15. Web site: Metamaterials Step Into the Light. Krieger. Kim. 2012-04-25. IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. en. 2019-04-05.
  16. Web site: Interview with Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171102231213/https://www.eeweb.com/featured-engineers/interview-with-prof-alexandra-boltasseva . 2017-11-02 . 18 September 2019.
  17. Web site: ECE faculty appointed to named professorships. 2020-08-17. Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University. en.
  18. Web site: 2023 Fellows. APS Fellow Archive. American Physical Society. 2023-10-19.
  19. Web site: 2023 R. W. Wood Prize Winner Optica . 2024-05-13 . www.optica.org.
  20. Web site: OSA Names Chief Scientist, Journal Editors. www.photonics.com. 2019-04-05.

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