Jennifer Dionne

Jennifer Dionne is Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research Platforms/Shared Facilities and an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Radiology (by courtesy) at Stanford University, USA. Dionne received her PhD in Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology and BS degrees in Physics and Systems & Electrical Engineering from Washington University. Prior to joining Stanford, she served as a postdoctoral researcher in Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. 

Dionne’s research develops new nano and optical materials for applications ranging from high-efficiency energy conversion and storage to bioimaging and manipulation. This research has led to demonstration of negative refraction at visible wavelengths, development of a subwavelength silicon electro-optic modulator, design of plasmonic optical tweezers for nano-specimen trapping, demonstration of a metamaterial fluid, and synthesis of high-efficiency and active upconverting materials. Most recently, she has developed in situ techniques to visualize chemical transformations and light-matter interactions with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.

In 2016, she received the Adolph Lomb Medal “for revealing nanoscopic optical phenomena in metal optics.” She was elected a Fellow of Optica in 2021.