Michal Lipson
Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics
Prof. Lipson pioneered critical building blocks in the field of Silicon Photonics, which today is recognized as one of the most promising directions for solving the major bottlenecks in microelectronics.
She is the inventor of over 45 issued patents and has co-authored more than 300 scientific publications. In recognition of her work in silicon photonics, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her numerous awards include the NAS Comstock Prize in Physics, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Blavatnik Award, Optica’s R. W. Wood Prize, the John Tyndall Award, the IEEE Photonics Award, and an honorary degree from Trinity College, University of Dublin. She was elected the President of Optica in 2023, formerly known as The Optical Society. Since 2014, every year she has been named by Thomson Reuters as a top 1% highly cited researcher in the field of Physics.
Research Areas
- Devices
- Materials
- Nanoscience
- Neuroscience & Neuroengineering
- Sensing
- Nanophotonics
- Optics
- Silicon Photonics
Additional Information
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Professional Affiliations
- Advisory Board Member, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rice University (2013- )
- Scientific Board Member, the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (2013- )
- Co-Founder and Board Member, PicoLuz, Inc. (2009- )
- Board Member, CRANN Nanoscience Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (2012- )
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Honors & Awards
- Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 2019
- Comstock Prize in Physics
- 2019 IEEE Photonics Award
- R. W. Wood Prize, 2017
- Thomson-Reuter, top 1% most highly cited researcher in Physics every year since 2014
- IEEE Fellow, 2013
- MacArthur Fellow, 2010
- Blavatnik Award, NY State Academy of Science, 2010
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow, 2007
- Fulbright Fellowship, 2007
- IBM Faculty Award, 2006
- NSF CAREER Award, 2004
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Professional Experience
- Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, School of Electrical Engineering, Columbia Nano Initiative, 2015-present
- Given Professor of Engineering, Cornell University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2013-2015
- Associate Professor, Cornell University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007-2013
- Assistant Professor, Cornell University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001 – 2007
- Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, Department of Material Science, 1999 – 2001