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Nan Marie Jokerst
Professor,
J.A.  Jones Distinguished Professor
of  Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Box 90291
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0291

Phone: (919) 660-5503
Secretary:  (919)-660-5442
Fax:   (919)-613-9158
E-Mail: njokerst@ee.duke.edu



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RM 3589, Fitzpatrick Center for
Interdisciplinary Engineering,
Medicine, and Applied Sciences (FCEIMAS)
Research Drive
Duke University
Durham, NC 27706





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Duke University
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Short Biography/..

Nan Marie Jokerst is the J.A. Jones Distinguisted Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Philip Baugh Scholar, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. She received her BS in Physics from Creighton University in 1982, and her MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1984 and 1989, respectively. Before joining the Duke faculty, she served on the ECE faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology for 15 years, and was Research Director of the NSF ERC in Electronic Packaging Research, and a researcher in the Microelectronics Research Center at Georgia Tech.   She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2003, an Optical Society of America Fellow in 2000, and was awarded an IEEE Third Millenium Medal Winner in 2000. She was named a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator in 1990, a DuPont Young Professor in 1989, a Newport Research Award winner in 1986, and a Hewlett Packard Fellow in 1983.  She has also been recognized for her teaching accomplishments, which include the IEEE Education Society Harris B. Rigas Medal in 2002 and the award for Best Teacher in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1990.  Her research work focuses on integrated nanosystems and microsystems with an emphasis on photonic integration for sensing and telecommunications systems. She has over 200 refereed publications and presentations, and five patents.  

Dr. Jokerst is also serving as Chair of the Cleanroom Design Committee toward the implementation of Duke's new fabrication and characterization facilities in FCIEMAS, and she is the Director of the Nano and Micro Integrated Systems Center at Duke.

In her personal life, Professor Jokerst is married to Professor Martin Brooke, also in the ECE Department at Duke, and they have two children, Nathaniel (8) and Joanna (3).  Dr. Jokerst is an enthusiatic environmentalist, naturalist, organic gardener, and vegetarian cook, and enjoys hiking, bird watching, astronomy, gardening, reading, and cooking with her family and friends on a regular basis.