Michal Lipson
04 - 07 August 2025
'Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach
Honolulu, Hawaii USA
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Michal Lipson
Columbia University, USA
Next Generation Nonlinear Photonic Devices
Silicon nitride has proven to be a near-ideal integrated platform for high-performance nonlinear photonic devices and lasers. Such devices will have broad applications in data communications, metrology, sensing, quantum technology and healthcare.
About the Speaker
Professor Michal Lipson is the Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University. Her research focus is on Nanophotonics and includes the investigation of novel phenomena, as well as the development of novel devices and applications.
Professor 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 250 scientific publications. In recognition of her work in silicon photonics, she was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the 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 2021 Vice President of Optica, formerly known as The Optical Society and then served as the President of Optica in 2023. Since 2014, every year she has been named by Thomson Reuters as a top 1% highly cited researcher in the field of Physics.
