People - The Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech

KNI Faculty Director

Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering; Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute

KNI Board of Directors

Harry A. Atwater, Jr.

Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science; Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; Director, Liquid Sunlight Alliance

Andrei Faraon

William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering

Alireza Marandi

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics

Austin J. Minnich

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; EAS Division Deputy Chair

Michael L. Roukes

Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering

Axel Scherer

Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics; Merkin Institute Professor

Kerry J. Vahala

Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology and Applied Physics; Executive Officer for Applied Physics and Materials Science

Nai-Chang Yeh

Thomas W. Hogan Professor of Physics

Affiliated Faculty

Rana Adhikari

Professor of Physics

Paul D. Asimow

Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geology and Geochemistry

Harry A. Atwater, Jr.

Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science; Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science; Director, Liquid Sunlight Alliance

Jacqueline K. Barton

John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, Emerita

Pamela Bjorkman

David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; Merkin Institute Professor

James J. (Jamie) Bock

Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Physics; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist

Scott K. Cushing

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Chiara Daraio

G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute

Joseph Falson

Assistant Professor of Materials Science; William H. Hurt Scholar

Andrei Faraon

William L. Valentine Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering

Wei Gao

Professor of Medical Engineering; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute

Morteza (Mory) Gharib

Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering; Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories; Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies

Sunil Golwala

Professor of Physics; Deputy Executive Officer for Astrophysics

Julia R. Greer

Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering; Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute

Ali Hajimiri

Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Co-Director, Space-Based Solar Power Project

David Hsieh

Donald A. Glaser Professor of Physics; Executive Officer for Physics

Nathan S. Lewis

George L. Argyros Professor and Professor of Chemistry

Alireza Marandi

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics

Austin J. Minnich

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics; EAS Division Deputy Chair

Mohammad Mirhosseini

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics

Stevan Nadj-Perge

Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science

Dianne K. Newman

Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology; Merkin Institute Professor

Oskar J. Painter

John G Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics

Guruswami (Ravi) Ravichandran

John E. Goode, Jr., Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Thomas F. Rosenbaum

President; Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair; Professor of Physics

Paul W. Rothemund

Visiting Associate in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and Computation and Neural Systems

Michael L. Roukes

Frank J. Roshek Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering

Axel Scherer

Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics; Merkin Institute Professor

Keith C. Schwab

Professor of Applied Physics

Kimberly A. See

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Mikhail Shapiro

Max Delbrück Professor of Chemical Engineering and Medical Engineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Paul W. Sternberg

Bren Professor of Biology; William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering

David Tirrell

Provost; Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Carl and Shirley Larson Provostial Chair

Kerry J. Vahala

Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Science and Technology and Applied Physics; Executive Officer for Applied Physics and Materials Science

Lihong Wang

Bren Professor of Medical Engineering and Electrical Engineering; Andrew and Peggy Cherng Medical Engineering Leadership Chair; Executive Officer for Medical Engineering

Amnon Yariv

Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering

Nai-Chang Yeh

Thomas W. Hogan Professor of Physics

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Aisulu Aitbekova

KNI Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Applied Physics and Materials Science

Muhammad Alam

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University

Shannon Boettcher

Professor of Inorganic and Materials Chemistry, ONAMI Signature Researcher, University of Oregon

Victor Brar

Van Vleck Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Artur Davoyan

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Matthew S. Eichenfield

SPIE Endowed Chair in Optical Sciences and Associate Professor of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona; Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (Physics) and CINT Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories