Mailing Address:
Princeton University
Engineering Quad
Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08544

Office: D-414
E-mail: mcm [at] princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 542-0275
Fax: (609) 258-1918

Curriculum Vitae

Welcome

We are a research group in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, focused on exploring nanotechnology-enabled approaches to addressing fundamental problems in medicine, energy, and flexible materials.

Our research is highly interdisciplinary, existing at the interface of the physical sciences, natural sciences, and across engineering disciplines.

We are currently welcoming highly motivated graduate, undergraduate, and post-doctoral applicants who thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced research environment.

Students from a variety of engineering and scientific backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Professor Michael C. McAlpine

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 energy harvesting, hybrid materials, 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 Award, an Intelligence Community Young Investigator Award, and an American Asthma Foundation Early Excellence Award.

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