Ibrahim Cissé

Professor Ibrahim Cissé is a Professor of Physics at Caltech. He received his Bachelor in Physics in 2004 from North Carolina Central University and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 2009. He moved to Paris from 2010 to 2012, where he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Ecole Normale Supérieure. He moved back to the US in 2013, as a Research Specialist at the HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus before joining MIT in 2014. His research on single-molecule and super-resolution imaging in live cells has been recognized internationally, including through the Young Fluorescence Investigator Award from the Biophysical Society, The Pew Biomedical Scholars, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and Science News SN10 Scientists To Watch.