--- title: Tomás Palacios named director of the Institute for... description: Tomás Palacios, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, has been appointed director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tom-s-palacios-named-director-of-the-institute-for-soldier-nanotechnologies-vpvcixdfz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tomás Palacios named director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies | daily.dev og:description: Tomás Palacios, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, has been appointed director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tom-s-palacios-named-director-of-the-institute-for-soldier-nanotechnologies-vpvcixdfz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vPvcIxdFz.png og:image:alt: Tomás Palacios named director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tomás Palacios named director of the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tomás Palacios, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, has been appointed director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN). He will continue serving as director of MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories. ISN is a U.S. Army-sponsored research center focused on nanotechnology for soldier protection, sensing, and survivability. Palacios is known for his work on wide-bandgap semiconductors, nanoelectronics, and advanced electronic materials, and has co-founded several technology companies. He succeeds John Joannopoulos, who led ISN from 2006 until his death in August 2025. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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