John D. Joannopoulos
Professor of Physics, MIT, WiTricity co-founder
John was a member of the MIT research team that developed both the theoretical basis and experimental validation of this novel method for wireless power transfer. He is a Professor of Physics at MIT, and was awarded the Francis Wright Davis Chair in 1996. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been on the Faculty of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor of Physics (1974), Associate Professor of Physics (1978), Professor of Physics (1983). He has served as Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters, member of the Editorial Board of Reviews of Modern Physics, and was appointed as the Director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies in 2006. Professor Joannopoulos is the author or co-author of about 500 refereed scientific journal articles, three textbooks on Photonic Crystals, and holds over 50 issued U.S. Patents. He is co-founder of two other start-up companies: OmniGuide and Luminus Devices. Professor Joannopoulos is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1983) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002). He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1976–1980) and John S. Guggenheim Fellow (1981–1982). He is the recipient of the Student Council Graduate Teaching Award (1991), the William Buechner Teaching Prize (1996), the David Adler Award of the American Physical Society (1997), and the School of Science Graduate Teaching Award (2002). Since 2003, he has been recognized as one of the Thompson ISI most Highly Cited Researchers.
Peter Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics, MIT, WiTricity co-founder
Peter was a member of the MIT research team that developed both the theoretical basis and experimental validation of this novel method for wireless power transfer. He is a Professor of Physics at MIT and is Division Head for Experimental Particle and Nuclear Physics. Peter received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1988. His main research activities are the experimental detection of dark matter using a new kind of detector with directional sensitivity and understanding the weak interactions using tau decay. His other projects include neutrino physics, new means of energy production, and development of new kinds of particle detectors.
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