David Bishop
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Professor, ECE, Physics, MSE, ME, BME, College of Engineering
Head of the Division of Materials Science & Engineering
Director of the CELL-MET Engineering Research Center
- Education
- PhD, MS in Physics from Cornell
BS in Physics from Syracuse
Post Doc at Bell Labs. - Office
- PHO, Room 609
- djb1@bu.edu
- Phone
- 617-990-4037
David Bishop is a Professor of Physics, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is also the Director of the CELL-MET NSF Engineering Research Center and Head of the Division of Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University.
His interests lie in nanotechnology, low temperature physics, mechanical properties of materials at low temperatures, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) and NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), MEMS in lightwave networks, all-optical switching, superconductivity and superfluidity, magnetic vortices in superconductors and their phase transitions, the Casimir effect and Casimir oscillators, energy efficient networking, electron coherence effects in metallic nanostructures at low temperatures, and cybersecurity and protecting critical infrastructure.
- Fellows
- Research Fellows
- Fields
- Hariri Faculty Affiliate