Michal Lipson - U.S. Scholar to Brazil Wins MacArthur Fellowship
Field: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Home Institution: Cornell University
Host Institution: State University of Campinas, Brazil
Grant Dates: June 2007 - August 2007
Dr. Michal Lipson
Dr. Michal Lipson, a Fulbright Scholar alumna to Brazil and Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
Dr. Lipson traveled to Brazil in June 2007 and spent three months researching photonics, or light manipulation, on a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant. She says of her time there, “The Fulbright Scholar grant created strong collaboration between my group and several research groups in photonics in Brazil. As a result, it created several new research programs and an exchange of students. Currently I have three Brazilian graduate students in my group and I and my students visit Brazilian colleagues often.”
As part of the Cornell Nanophotonics Group, Dr. Lipson and her U.S. and Brazilian colleagues investigate the physics and application of nanoscale photonic structures, or extremely small synthetic structures that affect light by slowing, blocking or redirecting it. Her research focuses on novel on-chip Nanophotonics devices, a technology that has the potential to revolutionize telecommunications and computing because of its small size and incredible efficiency.
The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who, according to the organization, demonstrate “exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.” Dr. Lipson is one of 28 Fulbright Program alumni who have later become MacArthur Fellows.
Dr. Lipson holds numerous patents and is the author of over 100 technical papers in scientific journals. Her honors and awards also include OSA Fellow, IBM Faculty Award, and NSF Early Career Award.
To the U.S.-Brazil Fulbright Program