Caroline Ross

Caroline Ross serves as Toyota Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, where she has revolutionized magnetic materials and nanofabrication since 1997. After earning her BA and PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge University and completing postdoctoral work at Harvard University, she gained industry experience at Komag developing hard disk storage technology. Her research focuses on magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials, particularly oxide thin films for device applications and self-assembly techniques for nanoscale fabrication. As Associate Head of MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, her contributions have earned numerous honors including fellowship in the American Physical Society (2004), Materials Research Society (2009), and IEEE (2013). Through her innovative work on magnetic properties of thin films and development of novel lithographic methods, she continues to advance both fundamental materials science and practical applications in data storage technology