Mona Jarrahi has made significant contributions to the development of ultrafast electronic and optoelectronic devices and integrated systems for terahertz, infrared, and millimetre-wave sensing, imaging, computing, and communication systems through use of novel materials, nanostructures, and quantum structures as well as innovative plasmonic and optical concepts. The outcomes of her research have appeared in more than 250 publications and 200 invited talks.
In November 2022, Jarrahi was named a fellow of the American Physical Society, in recognition of her ‘pioneering research, development, and commercialisation of plasmonic terahertz optoelectronics, enabling high-sensitivity, high-throughput terahertz sensing, and imaging systems’.
Jarrahi, who received the 2021 Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize, leads the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory, which focuses on new materials and device concepts to bring new functionalities to terahertz devices and systems.
Connect with Jarrahi on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mona-jarrahi-7783b717, or view her group’s research activities at www.seas.ucla.edu/~mjarrahi.
Organisation: UCLA
Role: Professor of electrical and computer engineering
Based in: Los Angeles, California, USA
Education: PhD and Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Bachelor of Science Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran)