Jennifer Dionne

Jennifer (Jen) Dionne is an American scientist and pioneer of nanophotonics. She is currently Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research Platforms at Stanford University, and an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and by courtesy, of Radiology. She serves as Director of the Department of Energy's EFRC, Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits, and co-director of Stanford's TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. She is also an Associate Editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters. [1] Jen's research develops methods to observe and control chemical and biological processes as they unfold with nanometer scale resolution, emphasizing critical challenges in global health and sustainability.

Jennifer Anne Dionne
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma mater
  • California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
  • Washington University (BS)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Materials Science, Radiology
InstitutionsStanford University
ThesisFlatland Photonics: Circumventing Diffraction with Planar Plasmonic Architectures (2009)
Doctoral advisorHarry Atwater

Early Life and Education

Dionne was born October 28, 1981 in Warwick, Rhode Island to Sandra Dionne (Draper), an intensive care unit nurse, and George Dionne, a cabinet maker. She grew up figure skating, but also enjoyed science and math. As a student at Bay View Academy, she was selected to be a Student Ambassador to Australia. She also participated in the Washington University Summer Scholars Program and the Harvard University Secondary School Program.

She attended Washington University in St. Louis, where she received bachelor's degrees in Physics and Systems Science and Mathematics in 2003. There, she served on the Mission Control of Steve Fosset's first attempted solo hot air balloon circumnavigation. She also worked as student lead of the Crow Observatory.

She then received her masters and doctoral degrees in Applied Physics from Caltech in 2009, advised by Harry Atwater. At Caltech, she was named an Everhart Lecturer, and awarded the Francis and Milton Clauser Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis, recognizing her work developing the first negative refractive index material at visible wavelengths.[2] Before starting her faculty position at Stanford, she spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow in Chemistry at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, advised by Paul Alivisatos.

Career

Dionne began as an Assistant Professor at Stanford in March, 2010. In 2016, she was promoted to Associate Professor, and became an affiliate faculty of the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Bio-X, and the Precourt Institute for Energy. In 2019, she jointed the Department of Radiology as a courtesy faculty and became Director of the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. In 2020, she was appointed Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research Platforms, helping Stanford to redefine shared research instrumentation and organization across the Schools of Engineering, Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Earth Sciences, and SLAC. [3]

Under Dionne's leadership, her lab helped to establish the field of quantum plasmonics. She also pioneered methods in combined optical and environmental electron microscopy to image photocatalysis with near-atomic-scale resolution. Her group is also credited with developing record-high-quality-factor phase-gradient metasurfaces, with applications in on-chip photonics and multiplexed biosensing.

Awards

Patents

Patents include:[13]

  • Metal Oxide Si field effect plasmonic modulator
  • Materials for parity-time symmetric electro-optical devices
  • Quantum converting nanoparticles as optical electro field sensors
  • Method and structure for plasmonic optical trapping of nanoscale particles
  • Slot waveguide for color display

References
  1. "Jennifer Dionne's Profile". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
  2. Sam Scott (May–June 2015). "The Improbable World of Jennifer Dionne". Stanford Magazine. ISSN 0745-3981.
  3. "The Dionne Group". dionne.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  4. Bourzac, Katherine. "Innovator Under 35: Jennifer Dionne, 29". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  5. "50 Things That Will Make You Say "Wow!"". Oprah.com. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  6. "President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". whitehouse.gov. 2013-12-23. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  7. Elaine Ray (2015-02-24). "Three Stanford scientists named Sloan Research Fellows". news.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  8. "The Dionne Group | Stanford University". dionne.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  9. "Adolph Lomb Medal". The Optical Society (OSA).
  10. Aditi Risbud (2018-01-03). "Beyond the Lab:Jennifer Dionne, Ph.D." Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  11. "NIH Director's New Innovator Award Recipients 2019 Awardees". commonfund.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  12. "2019 Alan T. Waterman Awardees". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  13. "Search Patents - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
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