Kirsten E. Moselund is a Danish engineer who is a professor of electronics and microtechnology at

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

. She also leads the Laboratory for Nano and Quantum Technologies at

Paul Scherrer Institute The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is a multi-disciplinary research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland. It is located in the Canton of Aargau in the municipalities Villigen and Würenlingen on either side of the River A ...

. She previously worked as Head of the Materials Integration and Nanoscale Devices group at IBM Research.

Early life and education

Moselund grew up in

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, where she attended Henriette Hoerlück Skole. She completed a master's degree at the

Technical University of Denmark The Technical University of Denmark ( da, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet), often simply referred to as DTU, is a polytechnic university and school of engineering. It was founded in 1829 at the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted as Denmark's fi ...

. In 2003, she moved to the

, where she completed her doctoral research in microelectronics, developing electronic devices from silicon nanowires.

Research and career

Moselund joined

IBM Research IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. IBM Research is the largest industrial research org ...

, where she led a group dedicated to "Materials Integration and Nanoscale Devices". She was particularly interested in

neuromorphic engineering Neuromorphic engineering, also known as neuromorphic computing, is the use of electronic circuits to mimic neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system. A neuromorphic computer/chip is any device that uses physical artificial ne ...

nanophotonics Nanophotonics or nano-optics is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, and of the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light. It is a branch of optics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology. It ...

and

Quantum computing Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...

. She was involved with the development of active nanowire devices for photonics. Making use of both active and passive nanowire matrices, Moselund developed platforms that could interface with neurons. These nanowire based devices can be used to study cell assembly and actively monitor individual cells. Moselund was part of the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

project Ionic Neuromodulation For Epilepsy Treatment (IN-FET). She has also worked on vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting-laser (VECSELs). In 2016, Moselund was awarded a

European Research Council The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union (EU). Established by the European Commission in 2007, the ERC is composed of an independent Scientific ...

starting grant to develop plasmonically enhanced III–V

nanowire lasers Semiconductor nanowire lasers are nano-scaled lasers that can be embedded on chips and constitute an advance for computing and information processing applications. Nanowire lasers are coherent light sources (single mode optical waveguides) as any ...

on silicon for integrated communications (PLASMIC). She focused on plasmonic materials that were compatible with

Very Large Scale Integration Very large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when MOS integrated circuit (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) c ...

(VLSI) processing. To achieve this, she made use of Template Assisted Selective

Epitaxy Epitaxy refers to a type of crystal growth or material deposition in which new crystalline layers are formed with one or more well-defined orientations with respect to the crystalline seed layer. The deposited crystalline film is called an epit ...

, which integrates the nanowires on a Si-SiO₂ substrate. Central to this technique is the use of an oxide cavity, which guides growth from a tiny silicon surface. Moselund returned to École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where she was made Professor of Electrical and Microengineering. In February 2022, she was made Head of the LNQ (Laboratory Nano and Quantum Technologies).

Personal life

Moselund has two sons.

Selected publications

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References

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