Lionel Kimerling

Lionel Cooper Kimerling (born 2 December 1943) is an American materials scientist, known for his work in the field of semiconductor materials and their processing. As of 2016, he is the Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He headed the Materials Physics Research Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1981 to 1990.

He gained a first degree in Metallurgy in 1965 and a Ph.D in 1968, both from MIT.

As Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, Kimerling was involved in the launch of the first global roadmap for integrated photonics: Integrated Photonics Systems Roadmap - International (IPSR-I). The MIT Microphotonics Center in the United States and PhotonDelta in Europe founded the roadmap that is an amalgation of their two previously independent roadmaps IPSR and WTWF.