Principal Investigator
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2005
S.B., University of Chicago, 2000
Matthew Sfeir joined The Graduate Center from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. As part of the laboratory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials, his work focuses on enabling technologies for next-generation optoelectronic devices. He has received numerous awards for his work in photophysics, and in 2018 was named an “Inventor of the Year” by the global science and technology organization Battelle. He has served on several committees and advisory boards, including the executive committee for the Energy Subdivision of the American Chemical Society Division of Physical Chemistry; co-authored more than 100 journal articles; and secured five patents.
Postdocs
Ph.D., Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany
Project: Organic Exciton-Polaritons
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, India
Project: Singlet Fission
CUNY Graduate Students
Project: Ultrafast Methods Development; 2D Materials
Anton Kyrylenko
Project: Inorganic Nanostructures for LED and energy application
Kamyar Rishidi
Email: krashidi@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Project: Organic Exciton-Polaritons
Project: Singlet Fission
Project: Singlet fission, with particular interest in understanding the unique properties of multiexciton states and the potential advantages over conventional excitons.
Project: Open-Shell Conjugated Polymers
Project: Development of Spatially Resolved High-Speed Ultrafast Methods
Co-Advised Graduate Students
Project: 2D Materials, Exciton Dynamics
High School Students
Project: Singlet Fission