Principal Investigator

Matthew Sfeir
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

Evripidis Michail

emichail@gc.cuny.edu

Project: Organic Exciton-Polaritons

Matthew Sfeir

Peter Budden

peterjbudden@gmail.com

Project: Integrating magnetic resonance and optical pump-probe spectroscopy for solar energy and thermal management materials

Matthew Sfeir

Guiying He

ghe@gc.cuny.edu 

Project: Singlet Exciton Fission

CUNY Graduate Students

Project: Inorganic Nanostructures for LED and energy application

Project: Organic Exciton-Polaritons

Matthew Sfeir

Yamuna Paudel  

yamuna.paudel1@gmail.com 

 

Project: Photocatalysis

Matthew Sfeir

Siedah Hall  

shall@gradcenter.cuny.edu 

 

Project: Ultrafast Methods Development; Organic Nonlinear Optics

Visiting and Undergraduate Students 

Matthew Sfeir

Sarah Baker  

sbaker2@gradcenter.cuny.edu 

 

Project: Singlet Fission

Matthew Sfeir

Anne Zats  

azats@gc.cuny.edu 

 

Project: Ultrafast Methods Development

Co-Advised Graduate Students

Matthew Sfeir

Kaia Parenti

krp2144@columbia.edu

 

Project: Singlet Exciton Fission

Advisor: Luis Campos, Columbia University

Alumni

Postdocs:

Krishen Appavoo, University of Alabama Birmingham 

https://www.appavoo-lab.org/team 

Erik Busby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikbusby/

Jessica Hoy, AIP Publishing 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjessicahoy 

Andreas Liapis, Aalto University 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sUzrKVAAAAAJ&hl=en

Daniel Niesner, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg 

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=N05OoPkAAAAJ&hl=de

Ramya Raghunathan 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qHkTOksAAAAJ&hl=en

Bin Liu, University of Michigan

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FJY3qnQAAAAJ&hl=en

Graduate Students:

Eli Kinigstein, Argonne National Laboratory 

https://www.aps.anl.gov/About/Advanced-Photon-Source-Directory?name=Eli__Kinigstein 

Samuel Sanders, Rowland Institute 

https://www2.rowland.harvard.edu/people/sam-sanders 

Dana Sulas, NREL 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-sulas 

Abagail Williams, University of Southern Mississsippi

Undergraduate Students:

Lindsey Klinge 

https://www.drexelair.com/news/group-members/ 

Qudus Lawal 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/qudus-lawal 

Myela Paige, Georgia Tech 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/myelapaige 

Zoey Warecki, UMD College Park 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoey-warecki-193828a5

Yocheved Kopel, Johns Hopkins 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoey-warecki-193828a5

Natascha Krishnanand

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natascha-krishnanand/

Jefferson Almonte

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefferson-almonte-2682b2122/