John Rogers

Northwestern University

Professor John A. Rogers began his career at Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997 and served as its director from the end of 2000 to 2002. He then spent 13 years at the University of Illinois, serving as the Swanlund Chair Professor and director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory. In 2016, he joined Northwestern University as the Simpson/Querrey Professor, where he is also director of the Institute for Bioelectronics. He has co-authored nearly 1000 papers and he is co-inventor on more than 100 patents. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021), the James Prize from the NAS (2022), and the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award (2024). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society.