Mikhail Kats, S.M. ’10, Ph.D. ’14 (applied physics) has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research in the area of thermal-emission engineering.
The award is one of the most prestigious for up-and-coming researchers in science and engineering. Kats, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, studies optics and photonics, plasmonics, optoelectronics, light harvesting, device physics, and nanoscale science.
His research group seeks to create next generation optical components to emit, modulate, and detect light across the visible and infrared spectral ranges.
Kats also recently received the 2018 Coatings Young Investigator Award.
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