Alexandra Boltasseva

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1978|01|11}}

| birth_place = Kanash, Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Chuvashia

| citizenship = United States

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2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2021 Fellow of the Materials Research Society {{cite web|url=https://www.mrs.org/careers-advancement/awards/spring-awards/mrs-fellows/list-of-mrs-fellows/2021|title=2021 MRS Fellows|access-date=2021-04-09}}
2020 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) {{cite web|url=https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q4/purdues-innovative-impact-further-enriched-as-3-engineering-professors-chosen-as-national-academy-of-inventors-fellows.htmlhttps://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q4/purdues-innovative-impact-further-enriched-as-3-engineering-professors-chosen-as-national-academy-of-inventors-fellows.html|title=Purdue's innovative impact further enriched as 3 engineering professors chosen as National Academy of Inventors fellows}}
2019 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/News/2019/boltasseva-ieee-fellow Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva named IEEE Fellow]
2018 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Finalist [http://blavatnikawards.org/honorees/national-finalists/ Blavatnik Award National Finalists]
2017 Fellow of The International Society For Optics And Photonic (SPIE)[https://spie.org/membership/explore-membership/fellows/complete-list-of-spie-fellows?SSO=1 Complete List of SPIE Fellows]
2015 Fellow of The Optical Society[https://www.osa.org/en-us/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/elected_fellows/ The Optical Society Elected Fellows]
2013 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award [https://www.photonicssociety.org/awards/young-investigator-award/young-investigator-award-winners IEEE Young Investigator Award Winners]
2013 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award [https://www.mrs.org/oyi MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award]
2011 MIT Technology Review Top Young Innovator [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]
2009 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies [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]
2008 Young Elite-Researcher Award from the Danish Councils for Independent Research [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]

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| work_institution = Purdue University, Technical University of Denmark[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]

| alma_mater = Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia

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Alexandra Boltasseva (born January 11, 1978) is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University,{{Cite web|title=Alexandra Boltasseva - Materials Engineering|url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/people/ptProfile|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Materials Engineering - Purdue University|language=en}} and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal.{{cite web|url=https://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2016/osa_publishing_announces_new_editors-in-chief_for/|title=OSA Publishing Announces New Editors-in-Chief for Three Journals|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=CNBC|accessdate=2016-01-07}} Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.{{Cite web|url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/metamaterials-step-into-the-light|title=Metamaterials Step Into the Light|last=Krieger|first=Kim|date=2012-04-25|website=IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News|language=en|access-date=2019-04-05}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eeweb.com/featured-engineers/interview-with-prof-alexandra-boltasseva|title=Interview with Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102231213/https://www.eeweb.com/featured-engineers/interview-with-prof-alexandra-boltasseva |archive-date=2017-11-02 |access-date=18 September 2019}} 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,{{Cite web|title=ECE faculty appointed to named professorships|url=https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/News/2020/purdue-trustees-approve-named-faculty-new-degree-program-posthumous-degree-honor-friends-of-the-university|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University|language=en}} 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:

2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society "for important contributions to nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials, having made a broad impact in the multidisciplinary area merging optics, material science, and nanotechnology".{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2023|title=2023 Fellows|work=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=2023-10-19}}
2023 R.W. Wood Prize recipient{{Cite web |title=2023 R. W. Wood Prize Winner {{!}} Optica |url=https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/awards/2023_award_winner_pressreleases/2023woodprizewinner/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=www.optica.org}}
In 2021, for the second consecutive year named in [https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/ The Highly Cited Researchers™] list by [https://clarivate.com/about-us/ Clarivate™].
2021 Fellow of the Materials Research Society "For her contributions to plasmonic and optical metamaterials including as plasmonic waveguides for on-chip circuitry, high-temperature nanophotonics, optical structures with extremely low refractive index, and tunable plasmonics"
2020 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
2019 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2018 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Finalist
2017 Fellow of The International Society For Optics And Photonic (SPIE)
2015 Fellow of The Optical Society "For seminal contributions to nanophotonics and new plasmonic materials."
2013 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award "For seminal contributions to the development of metal-dielectric waveguides for integrated optics and novel approaches for realization of nanoplasmonic devices"
2013 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award "For pioneering research to develop novel materials for advanced plasmonic, metamaterial and transformation optics devices with potential applications in future nanoscale photonic technologies"
2011 MIT Technology Review Top Young Innovator (TR35)
2009 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies
2008 Young Elite-Researcher Award from the Danish Councils for Independent Research

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.photonics.com/Articles/OSA_Names_Chief_Scientist_Journal_Editors/a58158|title=OSA Names Chief Scientist, Journal Editors|website=www.photonics.com|access-date=2019-04-05}}