Karl Berggren

Background and Education

Prof. Berggren is the faculty head of electrical engineering Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he heads the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group. From 1996 to 2003, Prof. Berggren served as a staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, and from 2010 to 2011, was on sabbatical at the Delft in the Netherlands.

His current research focuses on superconductive circuits, electronic devices, single-photon detectors for quantum applications, and electron-optical systems.

Awards and Honors

• Fellow of AAAS and a fellow of IEEE
• Kavli fellow
• Recipient of the 2015 Paul T. Forman Team Engineering Award from the Optical Society of America
• Bose Fellowship | 2015
• EECS Department’s Frank Quick Innovation Fellowship
• Burgess (‘52) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award for Excellence in Teaching
• MIT MacVicar fellow | 2024