Michael S. Isaacson

Michael S. Isaacson

  • Narinder Singh Kapany Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Director, Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 607-283-3133
  • by appointment
  • SOE2
  • Michael Isaacson is the Narinder Singh Kapany Professor emeritus of electrical engineering at UCSC. He is recipient of numerous awards for fundamental achievements in microscopy including a Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship, the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America (MSA), an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the MSA. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and the MSA. Professor Isaacson has a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. and PhD in physics from the University of Chicago. He has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago and Cornell University where he taught a course on microcharacterization of materials for over a decade.
  • Nano- and microfabrication technology and applications to biomedical and diagnostic devices, novel modes of imaging, electron and light optics; renewable energy systems, STEM education, sustainability
  • Ph.D. in Physics, 1971, University of Chicago
  • M.S. in Physics, 1966, University of Chicago
  • B.S. in Engineering Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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