Kimani C. Toussaint

Kimani Christopher Toussaint, Jr. is an American engineer who is a professor and senior associate dean in the School of Engineering at Brown University. He is a Fellow of Optica.

Early life and education Toussaint is from Philadelphia. He became interested in physics as a child. Toussaint studied physics and African American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met Anthony Garito, a professor who introduced him to optics and engineering. At Boston, he was awarded a Gates Millennium Fellowship, which supported his graduate program.

Toussaint was appointed to the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. His research exploits various properties of light, including angular momentum, linear momentum and other polarization degrees of freedom. He is interested in the realization of bioimaging techniques to better understand biological tissue and disease. To this end, he developed an imaging platform that combines second-harmonic generation imaging with confocal microscopy and Mueller matrix polarimetry. In Fall 2019, Toussaint joined the faculty at Brown University, and by 2020 he was made a Senior Associate Dean of the School of Engineering. He leads the Photonics Research of Bio/Nano Environments (PROBE) laboratory and is Senior Associate Dean in the School of Engineering. He is part of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials. In response, Toussaint started to develop a new, more equitable device.

Awards and honors Toussaint is a Fellow of SPIE and Optica. 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Associate Professor 2017 Illinois Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence 2019 Distinguished Promotion Award 2020 Elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences 2021 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Selected publications His publications The effect of keratoconus on the structural, mechanical, and optical properties of the corne Nonlinear optical response from arrays of Au bowtie nanoantennas