David Schurig

David Schurig implements his skills as a designer to create the seemingly impossible, including invisibility cloaks and other interesting devices, using the transformation method and implementing them with metamaterials.

He received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from UC Berkeley and then worked at Lawrence Berkeley Lab on laser ablation and photoacoustic spectroscopy. UC San Diego granted him a Ph.D. in physics and David went on to work for the California Space Institute, performing space mission feasibility studies. He also worked for Tristan Technologies (named after the coldest, continuously inhabited place on Earth), designing and building cryogenically cooled, SQUID-based instruments.

David is now a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and is supported by the IC (Intelligence Community) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.