Mathias Kolle

Mathias Kolle is a German physicist specializing in bio-inspired optics, optoelectronics and materials science and head of the Laboratory for Biologically Inspired Photonic Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He currently holds the Rockwell Career Development Professorship and is Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department (MECHE) at MIT.

Education Kolle graduated from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Gera in 2000. He then completed his trinational physics studies with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken. He also studied at the Henri Poincaré University in Nancy and at the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. before being appointed Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts in 2013.

Teaching At MIT, in addition to seminars, Kolle holds the basic course on measurement and instrumentation.

Publications Kolle is (as of April 2024) the author or co-author of over 140 scientific articles in international journals. resulting in an h-index (according to Google Scholar) of 40. "Bio-inspired band-gap tunable elastic optical multilayer fibers", or "Structural Color in Animals", which he published in collaboration with researchers such as Joanna Aizenberg

His dissertation on “Photonic Structures Inspired by Nature” was published as a book by Springer Verlag.