Team

Harold Craighead, Ph.D.
Cornell University

Professor Craighead is a Charles W. Lake Professor of Engineering and Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics. He was the director of the National Nanofabrication Facility, as well as the founding director of the multi-institutional Nanobiotechnology Center. Professor Craighead is a pioneer in the fabrication and application of ultra-small structures and devices. In recent years he and his research group at Cornell have demonstrated several new approaches to molecular sorting and analysis using nanoscale fluid systems and devices for confining optical excitation to extremely small volumes for spectroscopy of small systems. He has also directed research in the creation and utilization of nanomechanical systems. Professor Craighead is author of over 280 published papers. Adding to his numerous awards, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for contributions to the fabrication and exploitation of nanostructures. Professor Craighead received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, in 1974, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1980. He joined the faculty of Cornell University 1989.