Michael C. McAlpine
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University (2006)
Profile
Professor McAlpine began his appointment as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Princeton in 2008, and is an associated faculty member with the Princeton Department of Chemistry and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM).
Professor McAlpine’s research interests encompass the fields of hybrid materials, energy science, and biomimetic platforms.
He received a B.S. with honors in Chemistry from Brown University in 2000, an M.A. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 2006.
His dissertation work at Harvard under Professor Charles M. Lieber involved the development of integrated, high performance nanoelectronic systems on flexible plastic substrates.
His post-doctoral work at Caltech under Professor James R. Heath focused on nanotechnology-enabled hybrid sensors for medical applications.
His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Nature Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Proceedings of the IEEE.
He has given talks at several universities and conferences, most notably an invitation to speak to the prestigious JASONs Defense Advisory Group.
He has received a number of awards, most prominently an Air Force Young Investigator Program Award and an Intelligence Community Young Investigator Contract.