(6gy) Rational Synthesis and Assembly of Doped Nanomaterials for Quantum and Optoelectronic Applications

The ability to engineer materials with precise atomic structure over large length scales represents one of the major challenges in chemistry and materials science. Fundamental studies to achieve this goal have led to widespread applications in medicine, chemistry, physics, and engineering. Among the many possible synthetic parameters, optically driven processes play an increasingly important role due to their ability to resonantly target nanomaterials and to create highly non-equilibrium environments, enabling the exploration of new chemistries and technologies.

I'm interested in leveraging photonic effects to demonstrate high fidelity control of nanomaterial composition and assembly across a wide range of length scales. Specifically, I’m interested in the synthesis and characterization of doped materials for quantum computing and sensing applications. During my presentation, I’ll outline a research plan to study the properties of nanomaterials and to develop scalable processing methods for the integration these materials into macroscopic devices for application in quantum technologies, metamaterials, and photochemistry.

Teaching Interests: While I'm specifically interested in teaching transport processes and developing a class on light-matter interactions in nanomaterials that emphasizes modeling, I'm excited to teach the entire chemical engineering curriculum. Specifically, I'm excited to incorporate example based learning where students learn by encountering examples of phenomena before learning the equations the underscore a phenomena.