Joel Voldman's Biography

Joel Voldman, Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joel Voldman is Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering and Faculty Head in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1995. He received the M.S and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1997 and 2001, developing bioMEMS for single-cell analysis. Following this, he was a postdoctoral associate at Harvard Medical School. In 2002 he returned to MIT as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. In 2004 he was awarded the NBX Career Development Chair, in 2006 promoted to Associate Professor, and in 2013 promoted to Professor in the department. In 2018 he became Associate Head of the Department. Among several awards, he has received an NSF CAREER award, an ACS Young Innovator Award, a Bose Research award, Jamieson Teaching Award, Smullin Teaching Award, Quick Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship, AIMBE Fellow, and awards for posters and presentations at international conferences.