Center for EXcitonics

people

       Faculty       Postdocs        Students         Staff      Alumni      

 Faculty                 

Marc Baldo

 

 

email: baldo@MIT.EDU

phone: (617) 452-5132

office: 13-3053

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

(Center Director) Baldo pioneered phosphorescent OLEDs - now standard for high efficiency solid state lighting.

 
Group Members

Paul Azunre

Matthias Bahlke

Priya Jadhav

Jiye Lee

Hiroshi Mendoza

Carlijn Mulder

Sebastian Reineke

Phil Reusswig

Nicholas Thompson

Tony Wu

Allen Lin

Alan Aspuru-Guzik

 

 

email: alan@aspuru.com
phone: (617) 384-8188
fax: (617) 496-9411

office: M113

address: Harvard University

12 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138

Recently, Aspuru-Guzik pioneered the application of open quantum systems to understand energy transfer in natural and artificial antennas.

 
Group Members

Jacob Krich

Masoud Mosheni

Alejandro Perdoma

Patrick Rebentrost

Cesar Rodriguez-Rosario

Semion Saikin

Sangwoo Shim

Stephanie Valleau

Joel Yuen

Man Hong Yung

Moungi Bawendi

 

 

email: mgb@MIT.EDU

phone: (617) 253-9796

fax: (617) 253-7030

office: 6-221

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Bawendi has pioneered the science and technology of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and has led the spectroscopy of quantum dots at the ensemble and single quantum dot scale.

 
Group Members

Raoul Correa

Dörthe M. Eisele

Russell Jensen

David Strasfeld

 

Karl Berggren

 

 

email: berggren@mit.edu

phone: (617) 324-0272

fax: (617) 253-8509

office: 36-219

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Berggren has pioneered the combination of lithography and self assembly for the patterning of sub 10-nm features.

 
Group Members

Xiaolong Hu

Vitor Manfrinato

Francesco Marsili

Charles Black

 

 

email: ctblack@bnl.gov

phone: 631-344-3093

fax: 631-344-3093

Brookhaven National Laboratory
Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg 735
Upton, NY 11973-5000

Black pioneered nanometer-scale self assembly in lithography.

Vladimir Bulovic

 

 

email: bulovic@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-7012

fax: (617) 452-5110

office: 13-3138

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Bulovic and colleagues demonstrated the first electroluminescence from an exciton polariton and also pioneered QD-LEDs.

Group Members

Gleb Akselrod

Yasu Shirasaki

Kathy Stone

Geoffrey Supran

Will Tisdale

 

Jianshu Cao

 

 

email: jianshu@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-1563

fax: (617) 253-7030

office: 2-121

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Our group develops theoretical models for understanding the structure and dynamics of complex molecular systems. Establishing relationships between these models and experimental observables allows us to explore new ways of describing chemical and biological processes on multiple time and length scales.

Group Member

 

Liam Cleary

Ken Crozier

 

 

email: kcrozier@seas.harvard.edu

phone: (617) 496-1441

fax: (617)495-2484

address: Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Maxwell Dworkin Building 147

Cambridge, MA  02138

Crozier pioneered plasmonic antennas for use with lasers.

Group Member

Tal Ellenbogen

 

Mircea Dincă

 

 

email: mdinca@mit.edu

phone: 617-253-4514

fax: (617) 258-7500

office: 2-227

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

The Dincă Lab is focused on addressing research challenges related to the storage and consumption of energy and global environmental concerns. Central to our efforts is the manipulation of electrochemical and photophysical processes in inorganic materials, with a current emphasis on microporous materials.

 

Group Members

 

Natalia Shustova

Brian McCarthy

Silvija Gradecak

 

 

email: gradecak@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-9896

office: 13-5094

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Gradecak's Cathodoluminescence Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (CL-STEM) tool is presently unique within the US and offers a singular opportunity to correlate the structure and function of excitonic materials.

Group Members

 

Jordan  Chesin

Xiang Zhou

Alfredo Alexander-Katz

 

 

email: aalexand@mit.edu

phone: 617-452-2238 

office: 12-009

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Alexander-Katz's group focuses on understanding the self-assembly and dynamics of bio-polymers from a fundamental point-of-view for novel applications in fields such as medicine, biology, engineering, physics, and chemistry.

Group Member

YongJoo Kim

Jing Kong

 

 

email: jingkong@mit.edu

phone: (617) 324-4068

fax: (617) 324-5293

office: 13-3065

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Kong is a leading expert in exciton engineering in these nanostructures.

 

Group Member

 

Tingying (Helen) Zeng

Marko Loncar

 

 

email: loncar@seas.harvard.edu

phone: (617) 495-5798

fax: (617) 496-6404 

office: Maxwell-Dworkin 127

address: Harvard University
33 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

 

Loncar's research approach is through experimental and theoretical exploration of nanoscale optics, with emphasis on all aspects of the problem: design, fabrication and characterization.

 
Group Members
 

 Parag Deotare

Jennifer T. Choy

 

 

Jagadeesh Moodera

 

email: moodera@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-5423

fax: (617) 253-5405

office: NW14-3102

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Moodera focuses on fundamental and applied aspects of magnetism and super-conductivity, the foremost interest being nano-spintronics, including magnetic tunnel junctions, spin injection into semiconductors, diluted magnetic semiconductors, Josephson junctions based on MgB2 superconductors and recently organic spintronics .

 

Group Member

 David Ciudad

 

Keith Nelson

 

 

email: kanelson@MIT.EDU

phone: (617) 253-1423

office: 6-235

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Nelson pioneered the development of fully phase coherent two dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy —a key capability of our proposed center.

Group Members
 

Dylan Arias

Stephanie Teo

Daniel Turner

Patrick Wen

Colby Stein

Yongbao Sun

 

Bradley Olsen

 

email: bdolsen@MIT.EDU

phone: 617) 715-4548

office: 66-556

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Olsen's research focus is on block copolymers, soft condensed matther physics, protein-based materials, and bioelectronics.


 

Group Member

 YongJoo Kim

Eric Stach

 

 

email: estach@bnl.gov

phone: (631) 344-2618

fax: 631-344-7769

address: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg 735
Upton, NY 11973-5000

Stach's research interests focus on the development and application of electron microscopy techniques to solve materials problems in nanostructure growth, catalysis, thin film growth and materials deformation.

Tim Swager

 

 

email: tswager@MIT.EDU

phone: (617) 253-4423

office: 18-597 and 18-398

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Swager introduced exciton diffusion in electronic polymers to amplify fluorescence based chemical sensors.

Group Members

 

Jeewoo Lim

Shuang Liu

Rebecca Parkhurst

Harry Tuller

 

email: hltuller@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-6890

fax: (617) 258-5749

office: 13-3126

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Prof. Tuller's current research emphasizes the integration of sensor and actuator materials into microelectromechanical (MEMS) and microphotonic systems and the modeling, processing, characterazation and optimization of solid state ionic devices (sensors, batteries, fuel cells).

Group Members

Johanna Engel

Nick Thompson

Troy Van Voorhis

 

email: tvan@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-1488

office: 6-229

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Van Voorhis pioneered the use of constrained density functional theory (DFT) for the description of electron transfer and exciton formation in OLEDs.

Group Members

Tamar Mentzel

Eric Hontz

Shane Yost

Sina Yeganeh

 

 

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Postdocs

 

Jiahao Chen

 

 

email: jihaocMIT.EDU

phone: (617) 253-1539

fax: (617) 253-7030

office: 6-228

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

David Ciudad Río-Pérez

 

 

email: dciudad@MIT.EDU

phone: (617) 324-1042

office: NW14-2506

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Parag Deotare

 

email: pdeotare@seas.harvard.edu

phone: (617) 495-0861

office: Mckay Labs, 219

 

address: Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Mckay Labs, 219

9 Oxford St.

Cambridge, MA 02138

Dörthe M. Eisele


 

 

email: eisele@mit.edu
phone(lab): 617-253-8594
office: 18-080

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139


Tal Ellenbogen

 

 

email: tale@seas.harvard.edu

phone: (617) 495-2941

fax: (617) 495-2489

office: Pierce B11

address: Harvard University

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Pierce Hall, B11

Cambridge, MA 02138

Jacob Krich

 

 

address:  Harvard University

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

12 Oxford Street, M104A

Cambridge, MA  02138

Masoud Mohseni

 

 

email: mohseni@mit.edu

phone: (617) 452-5108

fax: (617) 258-7864

office: 35-472B

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Sebastian Reineke

 

 

email: reineke@mit.edu

phone: (617) 452-2326

office: 13-3029

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

 

Cesar Rodriquez-Rosario

 

 

email: rodriquez@chemistry.harvard.edu

phone: (617) 495-9676

office: M 110

 

address: Harvard University

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA  02138

Natalia Shustova

 

 

email: shustova@mit.edu

phone: (617) 324-2161

office: 6-433

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Kathy Stone

 

 

email: kawstone@mit.edu

phone2: (617) 324-0126

office1: 13-3150

office2: 2-063

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

David Strasfeld

 

 

email: dbstrasf@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-8594

office: 18-050

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Will Tisdale

 

 

email: tisdale@mit.edu

phone: 617-253-6893

office: 13-3078

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Jing Zhao

 

 

email: jingzhao@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-8594

office: 18-050

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

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Students

Gleb Akselrod

 

 

email: akselrod@mit.edu

phone1: (617) 225-8146

phone2: (617) 252-3210

office: 13-3146

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Dylan Arias

 

 

email: darias@mit.edu

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Paul Azunre

 

 

email: azunre@mit.edu

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Matthias Bahlke

 

 

email: mbahlke@mit.edu

phone: (617) 324-2129

office: 13-3041

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Julian Chan

 

 

email: jmchan@mit.edu

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Jordan Chesin

 

 

email: jchesin@mit.edu

office: 13-5146

phone: (617) 253-6924

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Jennifer. T. Choy

 

email: jchoy@fas.harvard.edu

phone: (617) 495-0861

office: M 110

 

address: Harvard University

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

9 Oxford Street, Rm:219

Cambridge, MA  02138

 

Dan Congreve

 

email: congreve@mit.edu

phone: (617) 452-2326

office: 13-3029

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Raoul Correa

 

 

email: rcorrea@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-7239

office: 18-082

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Johanna Engel

 

 

email: joenge@mit.edu

phone: 617-253-2364

office: 13-4010

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Eric Hontz

 

 

email: ehontz@mit.edu

phone: 610.509.9611                               

office: 6-228

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

 

Xiaolong Hu

 

 

email: xlhu@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-0237

office: 34-245

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Priya Jadhav

 

 

email: pjadhav@mit.edu

phone:(617) 452-4586

office: 13-3045

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Russell Jensen

 

 

email: russjen@mit.edu

Phone: 617-253-7239
Office: 18-082

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Jiye Lee

 

 

email: jiye@mit.edu

phone: (617) 324-2129

office: 13-3041

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Jeewoo Lim

 

 

email: jeewoo@mit.edu

phone: (617) 452-5097

office: 18-014

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Sung Keun Lim

 

 

email: stroot1@mit.edu

phone: (617) 715-4088

office: 13-5114

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Shuang Liu

 

 

email: shliu@mit.edu

phone: (857) 998-1969

office: 18-034

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Vitor Manfrinato

 

 

email: vitor@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-0213

office: 36- 227

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Hiroshi Mendoza

 

 

email: hiro88@mit.edu

phone: 617-452-2326

office: 13-3029

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Carlijn Mulder

 

 

email: cmulder@mit.edu

phone: 617-324-2129

office: 13-3041

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Alejandro Perdomo

 

 

email: perdomo@fas.harvard.edu

 

address: Harvard University

Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

Patrick Rebentrost

 

 

email: rebentr@fas.harvard.edu

 

address: Harvard University

Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Phil Reusswig

 

 

email: reusswig@mit.edu

phone: (617) 452-4586

office: 13-3045

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Yasu Shirasaki

 

 

email: yshir@mit.edu

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Yongbao Sun

 

 

email: ybsun@mit.edu

office phone: 617-253-1956      

lab phone: 617-324-0127

office: 2-084

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Geoffrey Supran

 

 

email: gjsupran@MIT.EDU

phone: (617) 452-5029

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Stephanie Teo

 

 

email: steo@mit.edu

phone: 617-253-1956

office: 6-026 Lab: 6-011      

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Nicholas Thompson

 

 

email: nthompso@mit.edu

phone: (617) 452-4586

office: 13-3045

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Daniel Turner

 

 

email: dbt@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-1956

office: 6-026

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Leslie Vogt

 

 

email: lvogt@fas.harvard.edu

phone: (617) 495-9676

office: Mallinckrodt 111

 

address: Harvard University

Mallinckrodt Chemistry Lab

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Patrick Wen

 

 

email: patwen@mit.edu

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

James Whitfield

 

 

email: whitfield@chemistry.harvard.edu

 

address:   Harvard University

Converst Chemistry Lab

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA  02138

Tony Wu

 

email: tonyw@mit.edu

phone: 617-253-1539

office: 13-3061

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Allen Yin

 

email: allenyin@MIT.EDU

phone: 617-452-2326

office: 13-3029

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Shane Yost

 

email: sryost@mit.edu

phone: 617-253-1539

office: 6-234B

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Xiang Zhou

 

 

email: zhoux@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-2499

office: 13-5098

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Eric Zimanyi

 

 

email: ezimanyi@mit.edu

phone: (617)253-1538

office: 6-226

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

 

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Staff

 

Cathy Bourgeois

Financial Assistant & Administrator

 

 

email: cmbourg@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-0085

faxc: 617-324-5275

office: 13-3057

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Beverly J. Freeman

Major Program Coordinator


 

email: freemanb@mit.edu
phone: 617.324.2877
fax: 617.258.7864

office:36-418

 

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

Semion Saikin

Research Associate

 

 

email: saykin@fas.harvard.edu

phone (617) 495-9676

 

address:  Harvard University

Department of chemistry and Chemical Biology

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA  02138

Man Hong Yung

Visiting Scientist

 

 

email: physicist01@gmail.com

 

address:  Harvard University

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

12 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA  02138

Tingying (Helen) Zeng

Research Scientist

 

 

email: tyzeng@mit.edu

phone: (617) 253-6860

office: 13-3033

 

address:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

               Cambridge, MA  02139

 

Alumni

 

Megan Brewster

 

 

Materials Scientist

GE Global Research

 

Xin Chen

 

 

 

Timothy Heidel

 

Postdoctoral Associate

MIT Energy Initiative

 

 

Michael Khasin

 

 

Visiting Scholar

Leonard Sander, H. M. Randall Laboratory of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

 

 

Francesco Marsili

 

 

Postdoctoral Associate

Single Photonics & Quantum Information Project Optoelectronic Manufacturing Group

NIST, Boulder Colorado

 

 

Carmel Rotschild

 

 

Faculty - Mechanical Engineering

Technion University

Haifa, Israel

 

Paul Steinvurzel

 

 

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Boston University

 

 

Jason Sussman

 

 

Technical Advisor

Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston

 

 

Yakov Tischler

 

 

Faculty - Senior Lecturer

Department of Chemistry

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

 

 

Vanessa Wood

 

Professor of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) and head of the Laboratory of Nanoelectronics at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich. 

 

 

Elizabeth Young

 

 

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry Department

Amherst College

Amherst, Massachusetts

 

 

Sina Yeganeh

 

 

Quantitative Researcher

Investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

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