Jennifer Dionne


Jennifer Dionne is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University and director of its TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. She is notable for her work on materials science and imaging. Her research focuses on the development of new optical materials and microscopy technologies to observe chemical and biological processes as they unfold with nanometer scale resolution. The results of her research help improve energy-relevant processes and medical diagnostics and therapeutics.

Biography

Dionne grew up in Rhode Island. She received bachelor's degrees in Physics and Systems Science and Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003. She then received master's and doctoral degrees in Applied Physics from Caltech in 2009, advised by Harry Atwater.
She is currently Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and is also a professor of Radiology, affiliate faculty at the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, and director of the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy.

Patents

Patents include: