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Associate Professor
Mathias Kolle
Interests
- Biologically inspired tunable optical materials.
- Scalable manufacture of optical materials.
- Morphogenesis of biological photonic structures.
Professor Kolle News + Media
Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
MIT engineers including Associate Professor Mathias Kolle and Professor Peter So have developed a simple chip powered by quantum dots that allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.
How strong is your knot?
With the help of color-changing fibers, MIT researchers including Associate Professor Mathias Kolle have developed a mathematical model to predict a knot’s stability.
Engineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
A team of researchers including Assistant Professor Mathias Kolle have found that clear water droplets can produce brilliant colors, an effect that could be harnessed for light displays, litmus tests, or makeup products.
Faculty Details
Education
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2006
SAARLAND UNIVERSITY
M.Sc. -
2010
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Ph.D.
Research Interests
- Optics and photonics
- Biological materials
- Biomimetics
- Bioimaging
- Instrumentation development
Online Data
- Google Scholar: (http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p_o0HtMAAAAJ&hl=en)
Honors + Awards
- 2021, Human Frontier Science Program Grant
- 2018, Stepping Strong Innovator Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- 2014, Best poster award, Frontiers of Bioengineering Symposium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 2011 – 13, Feodor Lynen research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt – Foundation
- 2013, Poster award at the Gordon Research Conference on Soft Condensed Matter Physics
- 2011, Salje medal for the best PhD in the Sciences, Clare Hall College, Cambridge, UK
- 2011, Dissertation award of the German Physical Society, Section Condensed Matter (2011)
- 2011, Thesis published in “Springer Theses: Recognizing outstanding PhD research”
Memberships
- SPIE - the International Society for Optics and Photonics
- MRS - the Materials Research Society
- APS - the American Physical Society
- DPG - The German Physical Society
Professional Service
- 2014 - present, Frontiers Bioengineering Review Editor
MIT Service
- 2013 - Present, Department Graduate Admissions Committee
Teaching
- Measurement and Instrumentation (2.671)
Publications
- Li, L., Kolle, S., Weaver, J.C., Ortiz, C., Aizenberg J. & Kolle, M. "A highly conspicuous mineralized 2015 composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet" Nature Communications 6, 6322, 2015.
- England, G., Kolle, M., Kim, P., Khan, M., Munoz, P., Mazur, E., Aizenberg, J. "Bioinspired 2014 micrograting arrays mimicking the reverse color diffraction elements evolved by the butterfly Pierella luna" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 111 (44), 15630–15634, 2014.
- Vasquez, Y., Kolle, M., Mishchenko, L., Hatton, B.D., Aizenberg, J. "Three-Phase Co-Assembly: In- 2014 situ Incorporation of Nanoparticles into Tunable, Highly-Ordered, Porous Silica FIlms" ACS Photonics,1 (1), 53-60, 2014.
- Phillips, K.R., Vogel, N., Hu, Y., Kolle, M., Perry, C.C., Aizenberg, J. "Tunable Anisotropy in Inverse 2014 Opals and Emerging Optical Properties" Chem. Mater., 26 (4), 1622-1628, 2014.
- Kolle, M., Lethbridge, A., Kreysing, M., Baumberg, J.J., Aizenberg, J., Vukusic, P. "Bio-Inspired 2013 Band-Gap Tunable Elastic Optical Multilayer Fibers" Adv. Mater., 25 (15), 2239-2245, 2013.
- Kats, A.M., Byrnes, J.S., Blanchard, R., Kolle, M., Genevet, P., Aizenberg, J., Capasso, F. 2013 "Enhancement of absorption and color contrast in ultra-thin highly absorbing optical coatings" Appl. Phys. Lett., 103, 101104, 2013.
- Hatton, B.D., Wheeldon, I., Hancock, M.J., Kolle, M., Aizenberg, J., Ingber, D.E. "An artificial 2013 vasculature for adaptive thermal control of windows" Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 117, 429-436, 2013.
- Kim, P., Hu, Y., Alvarenga, J., Kolle, M., Suo, Z., Aizenberg, J. "Rational Design of Mechano- 2013 Responsive Optical Materials by Fine Tuning the Evolution of Strain-Dependent Wrinkling Patterns" Adv. Optical Mater., 1 (5), 381-388, 2013.
- Kolle M., Salgard-Cunha, P. M., Scherer, M. R. J., Huang, F., Vukusic, P., Mahajan, S., Baumberg, J. 2010 J. & Steiner, U., “Mimicking the colourful wing scale structure of the Papilio butterfly”, Nature Nanotechnology 5, 511-515, 2010.
- Whitney, H. M., Kolle, M., Andrew, P., Chittka, L., Steiner, U. & Glover, B. J., “Floral iridescence, 2009 produced by diffractive optics, acts as a cue for animal pollinators”, Science 323, 130-133, 2009.