Polina Anikeeva

Department Head DMSE/Professor
Department
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Technology Areas
Chemicals & Materials: Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials, Polymers, Catalysis & Synthesis, Metals, Composites / Drug Discovery and Research Tools: Cell Culture / Biotechnology: Prostheses, Tissue Engineering, Biomedical Devices & Systems, Sensors & Monitoring, Biomanufacturing / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Robotics / Computer Science: Bioinformatics / Biomaterials & Bioelectronics: Health Monitoring, Tissue Repair / Sensing & Imaging: Optical Sensing / Drug Delivery: Microparticles & Nanoparticles, Vectors & Virus like Particles / Therapeutics: Small Molecules
Impact Areas
Healthy Living, Advanced Materials, Uncharted Frontiers

Pushing the frontiers of neurotechnology through innovative devices for brain circuit stimulation and recording, integrating physics and materials science for transformative advances in neuroscience.

Background and Experience

Polina Anikeeva received her BS in physics from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University in 2003 and a PhD in materials science and engineering from MIT in 2009. She completed her postdoctoral training at Stanford University, where she created devices for optical stimulation and recording from brain circuits. She joined the MIT faculty in 2011. She serves as the director of the K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and is an associate director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics.

Awards and Honors

  • Pioneer Award, High - Risk, High - Reward Research program, National Institutes of Health | 2021
  • MacVicar Faculty Fellowship, MIT | 2020
  • Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science | 2018
  • 35 Innovators Under 35, MIT Technology Review | 2015
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award | 2013

Technologies

Thermally and Electrically Actuated, Heat and Strain Programmable and Sensing,Kilometer-long Micro and Nano, Organic Artificial Muscle Fibers

Technology / Case number: #20097
Polina Anikeeva / Mehmet Kanik
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Magnetic Nanodiscs Mediate Remote Magnetomechanical Control of Neural Calcium

Technology / Case number: #20085
Polina Anikeeva / Alexander Senko / Danijela Gregurec / Pooja Reddy
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Drug Discovery and Research Tools
Impact Areas: Healthy Living, Advanced Materials
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