Toussaint Joins MechSE

7/3/2012 By Kathryn L. Heine

Assistant Professor Kimani ToussaintDr. Kimani Toussaint, formerly an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology at the University of Chicago, has joined MechSE as an Assistant Professor. Toussaint earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2004.

Written by By Kathryn L. Heine

Kimani Toussaint, Jr.
Kimani Toussaint, Jr.
Assistant Professor Kimani Toussaint
Dr. Kimani Toussaint, formerly an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology at the University of Chicago, has joined MechSE as an Assistant Professor. Toussaint earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2004. In 2006, he was one of 100 top American scientists in the United States under 45 selected to be selected for the National Academy of Science's 18th Annual Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium.

His interdisciplinary research in optical physics and engineering cuts across many disciplines, including chemistry, biology, physics and engineering. He holds two patents. One is for a novel approach to generating optical vector beams using diffractive optics an interferometry that he developed at University of Chicago. The other was for a method he designed and developed at Boston University that allows researchers to obtain ellipsometric data at low light levels from a reflective sample using a non-classical optical source.


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This story was published July 3, 2012.