Michelle Sander, PhD Associate Professor (ECE, BME, MSE)
Education PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012Primary Appointment Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Interest Ultrafast, nonlinear and quantum photonics
Femtosecond fiber lasers
Real-time characterization methods
Infrared spectroscopy
Photothermal light-matter interactions
Label-free imaging and super-resolution microscopy
Infrared neuromodulation
Publications
Honors and Awards Optica Fellow, 2025
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2025
NSF CAREER Award, 2019
College of Engineering Dean’s Catalyst Award, 2014, 2017, & 2018
AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2017
Optical Society of America Ambassador, 2017
BU Nanotechnology Innovation Center Award, 2017
BU MSE Innovation Award, 2016
Senior Member: IEEE, SPIE
Classes Taught EK131/132 Photonics
EK 307 Electric Circuits
EC 570 Lasers and Applications
Additional Affiliations Division of Materials Science & Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Neurophotonics Center
Photonics Center
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