Gleb Akselrod

Gleb Akselrod, CTO and Founder of Lumotive, has over 10 years of experience in photonics and optoelectronics. Before Lumotive, he was Director for Optical Technologies at Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue, Wash., leading commercialization of optical metamaterial and nanophotonic technologies.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University’s Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics, focusing on plasmonic nanoantennas and metasurfaces. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2013 as a Hertz Foundation and NSF Graduate Fellow, studying excitons in materials for solar cells and OLEDs. Before MIT, he worked at Landauer Inc., developing and patenting a fluorescent radiation sensor now used by the U.S. Army. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, over 30 U.S. patents, and has published 25+ scientific articles.