Dirk Englund

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Research

Dirk Englund received his BS in Physics from Caltech in 2002. Following a Fulbright year at TU Eindhoven, he earned an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in Applied Physics in 2008, both from Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 2010, when he started his group as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics at Columbia University. In 2013, he joined the faculty of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Recognitions

2023 — Fellow of the IEEE
2022 — Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
2023 — Best Paper Award, OECC/PSC Conference 2022
2023 — R&D 100 Award winner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory Microsystems Prototyping Foundry)
2021–2024 — Web of Science / Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (Physics 2022–2024; Cross-Field 2021)
2021 — Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America)
2020 — Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
2018 — Bose Research Fellow
2017 — Adolph Lomb Medal (OSA / Optica top award for a young researcher in optics)
2017 — ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award
2016 — MIT Lincoln Laboratory R&D 100 Award
2015 — Lincoln Laboratory Best Paper Award
2012 — IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award
2012 — IBM Faculty Award
2012 — DARPA Young Faculty Award
2011 — Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2011 — Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics
2010 — Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award
2004 — NSF Graduate Fellowship
2003 — NDSEG Fellow
2002 — U.S. Fulbright Fellow
2002 — D.S. Kothari Thesis Prize in Physics, Caltech