Jennifer Dionne

Jennifer Anne Dionne
Dionne in 2019
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) Washington University (BS)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Materials Science, Radiology
Institutions	Stanford University
Thesis	Flatland Photonics: Circumventing Diffraction with Planar Plasmonic Architectures (2009, Awarded Francis and Milton Clauser Prize for best Caltech PhD thesis)
Doctoral advisor	Harry Atwater

Jennifer (Jen) Dionne is an American scientist and pioneer of nanophotonics. She is currently senior associate vice provost of research platforms at Stanford University, a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, and an associate professor of materials science and engineering and by courtesy, of radiology. She serves as director of the Department of Energy's "Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits" Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC), which strives to create thermodynamic engines driven by light, and she leads the "Extreme Scale Characterization" efforts of the DOE's Q-NEXT Quantum Science Center. She is also an associate editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters.^[1] Dionne's research develops optical methods to observe and control chemical and biological processes as they unfold with nanometer scale resolution, emphasizing critical challenges in global health and sustainability.