Marc Baldo

Background and Education

Marc Baldo is the Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Baldo’s research interests include light emitting devices and solar cells, electrical and exciton transport in organic materials, exciton fission and fusion, chemical sensors, and spintronics.

Professor Baldo has been at MIT since 2002. Before that he received his B. Eng. (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Sydney in 1995 with first class honors and university medal, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He directed the Center for Excitonics, a Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center, from 2009–2019 and has been the Director of the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT since 2017.

He was awarded the Jan Rajchman Prize from the Society for Information Display in 2013 for his contributions to modern phosphorescent organic light emitting displays. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.