Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Kiyoul Yang receives federal Young Investigator awards

Photonics work supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research ...
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Areas of Application

The area of application is an integral part of the concentration. Students are encouraged to select an area of application that corresponds to an area of intellectual interest. Current concentrators ...
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Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Science & Engineering Contact cgately@seas.harvard.edu ...
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Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish

These fish-inspired robots can synchronize their movements without any outside control. Based on the simple production and detection of LED light, the robotic collective exhibits complex ...
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A router for photons

Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks The same devices used for control could be used for qubit state readout, or for forming direct links to convert finicky quantum information ...
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The Tentacle Bot

The soft robot is controlled with two valves, one to apply pressure for bending the arm and one for a vacuum that engages the suckers. By changing the pressure and vacuum, the arm can attach to any ...
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A New Window into Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

Key Takeaways Harvard SEAS researchers have tested and validated lightweight nanofabricated structures that can passively float in the mesophere, which is about 45 miles above Earth’s surface. The ...
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Methane's role in climate change

Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering ...
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A springtail-like jumping robot

To go airborne, the robot uses what’s called latch-mediated spring actuation, in which potential energy is stored in an elastic element – the furcula – that can be deployed in milliseconds like a ...
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A New Explanation for 'Snowball Earth'

A new study by Earth scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) offers an explanation for one of Earth’s great climate puzzles: how the Sturtian ...
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How future volcanic eruptions will impact Earth’s ozone layer

CFCs, greenhouse gases, and naturally occurring emissions of halogens will shape how volcanoes impact the ozone layer into the next century ...
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Qubits ‘Dressed’ For Success

These states, called “dressed” because they are “wearing” a continuous acoustic field, are less sensitive to the low‑frequency noise in the environment. Because spin coherence is protected here by a ...