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Dirk Englund received his BS in Physics from Caltech in 2002. Following a Fulbright year at TU Eindhoven, he earned an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in Applied Physics in 2008, both from Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 2010, when he started his group as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics at Columbia University. In 2013, he joined the faculty of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

• 2023 — Fellow of the IEEE
• 2022 — Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
• 2023 — Best Paper Award, OECC/PSC Conference 2022
• 2023 — R&D 100 Award winner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory Microsystems Prototyping Foundry)
• 2021–2024 — Web of Science / Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (Physics 2022–2024; Cross-Field 2021)
• 2021 — Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America)
• 2020 — Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
• 2018 — Bose Research Fellow
• 2017 — Adolph Lomb Medal (OSA / Optica top award for a young researcher in optics)
• 2017 — ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award
• 2016 — MIT Lincoln Laboratory R&D 100 Award
• 2015 — Lincoln Laboratory Best Paper Award
• 2012 — IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award
• 2012 — IBM Faculty Award
• 2012 — DARPA Young Faculty Award
• 2011 — Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
• 2011 — Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics
• 2010 — Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award
• 2004 — NSF Graduate Fellowship
• 2003 — NDSEG Fellow
• 2002 — U.S. Fulbright Fellow
• 2002 — D.S. Kothari Thesis Prize in Physics, Caltech

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