(L-R, front) Poet Thomas Kinsella, Galway historian Catherine Corless, American physicist Michal Lipson.
(L-R, rear) Dr. Patrick Pendergast, provost of Trinity College, and Dr. Mary Robinson, chancellor of the University of Dublin, at the honorary doctorate ceremony.
In recognition of her work in silicon photonics, Lipson has received a MacArthur Fellowship, the Blavatnik Award, and the Optical Society’s R. W. Wood Prize. She recently received the 2019 IEEE Photonics Award, and since 2014, Thomson Reuters has named her a Highly Cited Researcher (top 1 percent) in physics. Lipson received her PhD in physics from the Technion, in Israel, and did a postdoctoral fellowship in materials science at MIT. After fourteen years on the Cornell University faculty, she joined the electrical engineering department at Columbia in 2015.