Rate My Professor Maiken Mikkelsen

Maiken H. Mikkelsen is the James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. She also serves as Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Professor of Physics. She received her B.S. in Physics from the University of Copenhagen in 2004 and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the Duke faculty in 2012.

Her research explores quantum nanophotonics, plasmonics, light-matter interactions in artificially structured nanoscale materials, hybrid molecular-scale materials, and spin phenomena in the solid state. This work focuses on nanophotonics and new quantum materials to enable transformative breakthroughs for optoelectronics, quantum science, the environment, and human health. Awards and honors include the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the American Physical Society in 2017, the NSF CAREER Award in 2015, the Moore Inventor Fellow award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, young investigator program awards from the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award from the Pratt School of Engineering in 2021, the Early Career Achievement Award from SPIE in 2017, the Cottrell Scholar Award in 2016, and the Ph.D. Thesis Prize in Quantum Electronics and Optics from the European Physical Society in 2011. Key publications include works on ultrafast pyroelectric photodetection, third-harmonic generation in plasmonic nanogaps, tailored emission spectra of 2D semiconductors, and ultrafast room-temperature single photon sources with plasmonic nanocavities.