Ted Sargent

Ted Sargent is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology at the University of Toronto. In 2005, Ted Sargent was named Research Leader in the Scientific American 50 - a list "recognizing outstanding leaders in science and technology from the past year" - for his advances in the field of solar energy. Also in 2005, he was listed as one of six of "Earth's Innovators" in the Sierra Club Magazine. In 2003 he was named "one of the world's top young innovators" by MIT's Technology Review. In 2002 he was honoured by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research as one of Canada's top twenty researchers under age forty. In 2002 he won the Outstanding Engineer Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of Canada "...For groundbreaking research in applying new phenomena and materials from nanotechnology towards transforming fibre-optic communications systems into agile optical networks." He was awarded a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto in 2000: "[Ted Sargent] has created a new type of laser that unites many sophisticated optical devices onto a single, integrated photonic chip." He received the B.Sc.Eng. (Engineering Physics) from Queen's University in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto in 1998. More information on Ted Sargent is available at www.tedsargent.com; and on his research at www.light.utoronto.ca.