Toussaint receives Dean's Award for Excellence in Research

Associate Professor Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr. has won the College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research. The distinction recognizes associate professors like Toussaint who have had exceptional research accomplishments in the last five years. The award is presented at the Engineering Faculty Awards Ceremony on April 27.

Toussaint joined MechSE as an assistant professor in 2007 after working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago’s James Franck Institute. He also holds affiliate positions in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, the Beckman Institute, and the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at UIC.

Toussaint leads the Laboratory for Photonics Research of Bio/nano Environments (PROBE Lab), a research group that focuses on bioimaging within biophotonics and nano-optics within nanophotonics. The PROBE Lab group was recently recognized for its work with Quantitative Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging (SHG) and Novel Metal Nanoantennas.

For the 2014-15 school year, he is a Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Associate Professor at MIT, where he is investigating ways in which nonlinear optical microscopy technology can be used for quantitative imaging of neurons.