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Arto V. Nurmikko is the L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering and Professor of Physics at Brown University in the School of Engineering. A native of Finland, he earned his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968, M.S. in 1969, and Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral work at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Throughout his career, Nurmikko has focused on advancing neuroengineering, photonics, microelectronics, and nanosciences, directing the Neuroengineering and Nanophotonics Laboratory (N3 Lab) at Brown University. His research specializes in device science for implantable neural interfaces, ultracompact semiconductor light emitters, and ultrafast optical switching of magnetism.