Caroline A. Ross
Interim Department Head, Materials Science and Engineering, Ford Professor of Engineering
Primary Impact, Materials, Research Type
Contact Info
Assistant
Assistant Name: Sarah Ciriello
Assistant Email:
sciri@mit.edu
Assistant Phone:
617-253-1621
Research
Professor Caroline Ross works on magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials, primarily oxide thin films, for device applications; magneto-optical films for integrated photonics; and oxide nanocomposites and self-assembly of block copolymers for nanoscale lithography and fabrication.
Biography
Professor Ross attended Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, where she obtained a BA in 1985 and a PhD in 1988 in materials science, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Before joining MIT in 1997, she was an engineer at Komag in Silicon Valley, where she developed hard disk data storage technology. She teaches classes on the structure of materials and magnetic materials
Awards & Honors
2013
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2009
Fellow, Materials Research Society
2004
Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement in MIT Education
2004
Fellow, American Physical Society
2000
Joseph Lane Award for Excellence in Teaching