Science AMA Series: I’m Michal Lipson, Lipson Nanophotonics Group at
Columbia University, our group focuses on research areas where
Nanophotonics has a big impact – both fundamentally and
technologically. Ask Me Anything!
Abstract
Michal Lipson, MacArthur Fellow, Eugene Higgins Professor Electrical
Engineering at Columbia University Professor Michal Lipson joined the
Electrical Engineering faculty at Columbia
Universityhttp://lipson.ee.columbia.edu/home in July 2015. She completed
her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physics at the Technion in 1998
followed by a Postdoctoral position at MIT in the Materials Science
Department until 2001. From there, Lipson joined the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She was named
Cornell Given Foundation Professor of Engineering in 2013. Lipson was
one of the main pioneers in the field of silicon photonics and is the
inventor of several of the critical building blocks in the field
including the GHz silicon modulator. She holds over 20 patents and is
the author of over 200 technical papers. Professor Lipson’s honors and
awards include the MacArthur Fellow, Blavatnik Award, IBM Faculty Award,
and the NSF Early Career Award. She is a fellow of OSA and IEEE. Since
2014, Lipson has been named by Thomson Reuters as a top 1% highly cited
researcher in the field of Physics.