Edwin Carlen

Research

Edwin Carlen’s research interests are in integrated sensing systems, micro/nano sensors, chem/bio sensors, nanoplasmonics, enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and micro/nanofabrication technology. He has authored over 100 articles in refereed scientific and engineering journals and conference proceedings, four book chapters, and multiple US patents.

Biography

Edwin Carlen received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2001. From 2000-2003, he was a Senior Research Engineer developing telecommunication photonic switching devices and systems at Corning-Intellisense Corporation. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Principle Member of the Technical Staff at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, responsible for developing microscale and nanoscale devices, sensors, and sensing systems. In 2006, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Physics, Leiden University, the Netherlands, and later that year, was appointed a 3TU Assistant Professor at the University of Twente and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, the Netherlands. He was a tenured Associate Professor leading the Nanosensing group (within the BIOS group) at the University of Twente until 2015. From 2013-2017, he was an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where he led the Plasmonics and Nanosensing Laboratory at the Institute of Materials Science. In 2018, he founded Aichmis Technologies, LLC, a startup developing portable instruments for detecting multi-gas mixtures using state-of-the-art optical spectroscopy techniques. He will join the Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Department at Washington University in St. Louis in Fall 2024.