Michal Lipson

Michal Lipson and her group investigate the physics and applications of nanoscale photonic structures. In particular, we are interested in light-confining structures that can slow down, trap, enhance and manipulate light. Photonic structures can enhance light-matter interactions by orders of magnitude. The applications of the devices that we design, fabricate and demonstrate are numerous: on-chip light modulation (optically and electro-optically) and detection, networks on-chip, nonlinear phenomena, multi-material devices and platforms, microfluidics, basic physics, etc.

She is Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, a Professor of Applied Physics, and a principal investigator with Columbia's Department of Energy EFRC on Programmable Quantum Materials.