Teri W. Odom, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, is the recipient of the 2024 SPIE Mozi Award for “significant contributions to the field of nanophotonics and to the development of moiré photonics.”
The SPIE Mozi Award is an “international award named in honor of the Chinese philosopher, scientist, and engineer Mozi (468-391 BC), the first person in recorded history to mention the simple principles behind the concept of the camera obscura. This award is presented for outstanding discoveries, scientific and technical achievements, or inventions in the field of optics.”
Odom is an expert in designing structured nanoscale materials with exceptional optical and physical properties. Odom has pioneered a suite of multi-scale nanofabrication tools that has resulted in flat optics that can manipulate light at the nanoscale and beat the diffraction limit, plasmon-based nanoscale lasers that exhibit tunable color, and hierarchical substrates that show controlled wetting and super-hydrophobicity.
In addition to Weinberg’s chemistry department, Odom is a professor of materials science and engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and a member of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute. Odom holds membership with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Chemical Society, the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Royal Society of Chemistry.