Ted Sargent

Ted Sargent is a University Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He serves as Vice-President International for the university and holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology.

Research Interests: His work spans

• Photonics
• Electronics
• Biomedical Engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Quantum optoelectronic devices
• Solution-processed semiconductors

with applications in solar cells, light sensors, and biomedical technologies.

Scientific Awards:

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• Fellow of AAAS and IEEE
• NSERC Silver Medal
• Scientific American 50
• Canada’s Top 40 Under 40
• MIT Technology Review TR100

Entrepreneurial Roles: Founder and CTO of InVisage Technologies, co-founder of Xagenic, and author of The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (Penguin, 2005).