Marcie Black

Marcie Black’s passion is in solving important problems in the world including equitable health care, energy and the environment and energy security. She is the CEO at Advanced Silicon Group (ASG).  ASG is commercializing a silicon photoelectric sensor (Light Sense) which will lowering the barriers of protein sensing so that everyone has access to good health care. 

Prior to founding ASG, Marcie was the President and co-founder of Bandgap Engineering, which focused on lowering the cost of solar electricity through black silicon solar cells. Marcie also was a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) working on a variety of nanotechnology and optical systems. She began at LANL as a prestigious Director’s Funded Post Doc, developing organic and nano solar cells.

Marcie has a Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering, under the supervision of Institute Professor, Mildred Dresselhaus. Prior to her Ph.D. work, Marcie was a device engineer at Motorola. 

In 2009, she was awarded an R&D 100 award for her contributions to work at LANL.  Marcie also was honored as one of the ten “Women-to-Watch in 2010” by Mass High Tech.  Marcie has over 30+ papers and more than 20 issued patents with many more pending.