Gleb Akselrod

Gleb Akselrod, founder and CTO of Lumotive, has more than 10 years of experience in photonics and optoelectronics. Prior to Lumotive, he was the Director for Optical Technologies at Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, Wash., where he led a program on the commercialization of optical metamaterial and nanophotonic technologies. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics at Duke University, where his work focused on plasmonic nanoantennas and metasurfaces. He completed his Ph.D. in 2013 at MIT, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow and an NSF Graduate Fellow studying excitons in materials for solar cells and OLEDs. Prior to MIT, Dr. Akselrod was at Landauer, Inc. where he developed and patented a fluorescent radiation sensor that is currently deployed by the US Army. Dr. Akselrod received his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT and his B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds more than 30 US Patents and has published over 25 scientific articles.