Ted Sargent

Ted Sargent received a B.Sc.Eng. (Engineering Physics) from Queen’s University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto in 1998. He was appointed Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Toronto in 1998. Sargent was then appointed Associate Professor in 2002 and afterwards earned the appointment of Full Professor in 2005. He served as Associate Chair in Research for the Faculty of Applied Science from 2009-2012 and then served as Vice-Dean in Research for the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering from 2012-2016. He left Toronto as Vice President-International of Research and Innovation in 2020.

Professor Sargent’s jouney has brought him here where he joins Northwestern’s Department of Chemistry and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is affiliated with the International Institute for Nanotechnology.