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Natalia Litchinitser is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, obtained in 1997. Litchinitser's primary research interests focus on metamaterials and their ability to manipulate the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. She began her career as a research scientist at the University of Michigan and joined the faculty at the University of Buffalo in 2008. Over the past decade, she has become a leading expert in optical metamaterials. Her current research includes work on topological photonics, which aims to direct light through tight corners using tiny waveguides to prevent photon scattering. Litchinitser is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), and she is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)