Svetlana V. Boriskina
Principal Research Scientist
Director, META Research Lab
Mechanical Engineering Department
Interests
Photonic materials, optics and spectroscopy, polymer science, fiber and textile engineering, renewable energy, heat transfer
Email: sborisk@mit.edu
Boriskina lab website: https://sites.mit.edu/metalab
Phone: 617-253-0079
Bio
Dr. Boriskina’s multi-disciplinary research blends photonics, opto-electronics, polymer physics, thermodynamics, and mechanics. Her Multifunctional Metamaterials (META) Research Lab develops new materials and technologies to harvest and manipulate light, heat, and acoustic waves. She makes smart stain-resistant fabrics that provide thermal comfort indoors and outdoors, new meta-materials that bend light in unusual ways and exhibit tunable color without any dyes or pigments, polymer-based solid-state cooling technologies to replace conventional HVACs, and opto-thermo-mechanical technologies to provide clean energy and fresh water to off-electrical-grid and disaster-stricken communities. Svetlana is the author and co-author of over 130 peer-reviewed papers, several award-winning courses, and multiple patens, and has led multiple U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, NATO, and industry-funded projects.
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