Principal Investigator

Matthew Sfeir

Dr. Matthew Y. Sfeir

Associate Professor, Photonics Initiative, ASRC
Department of Physics, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Department of Chemistry, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Email: msfeir@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3270

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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

Evripidis Michail

Email: emichail@gc.cuny.edu

Ph.D., Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany
Project: Organic Exciton-Polaritons

Kanad Majumder

Kanad Majumder

Email: kanad.majumder31@gc.cuny.edu

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, India
Project: Singlet Fission

Kanad Majumder

Azel Murzabekova

Email: amurzabekova@gc.cuny.edu

Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Project: Broadband THz spectroscopy on conducting polymers

CUNY Graduate Students

Siedah Hall

Siedah Hall  

Email: shall@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Project: Ultrafast Methods Development; 2D Materials

Anton

Anton Kyrylenko

Email: akyrylenko1@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Project: Inorganic Nanostructures for LED and energy application

Kamyar

Kamyar Rishidi

Email: krashidi@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Project: Organic Exciton-Polaritons

Sarah Jane Baker

Sarah Jane Baker

Email: sbaker2@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Project: Singlet Fission

Bernardo Salcido-Santacruz

Bernardo Salcido-Santacruz

Email: bsalcidosantacruz@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Project: Singlet fission, with particular interest in understanding the unique properties of multiexciton states and the potential advantages over conventional excitons.

Matthew Sfeir

Charanjot Singh

Email: csingh@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Project: Open-Shell Conjugated Polymers

Karamoko Soumahoro

Karamoko Soumahoro

Email: ksoumahoro@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Project: Development of Spatially Resolved High-Speed Ultrafast Methods

Co-Advised Graduate Students

Agneya Dharmapalan

Agneya Dharmapalan

Email: adharmapalan@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Advisor: Vinod Menon, Department of Physics, The City College of New York, CUNY

Project: 2D Materials, Exciton Dynamics

Damon Turney

Damon Turney

Email: dturney@ccny.cuny.edu
Advisor: Ronald Koder, Department of Physics, The City College of New York, CUNY

High School Students

Vivian Chen

Vivian Chen

 

Project: Singlet Fission

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

Peter Budden, Natural Resources Defense Council, https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-budden-b03b12a4

Guiying He, Carnegie Mellon University, https://www.linkedin.com/in/guiying-he-95a6b0232

 

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

Kaia Parenti, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaia-parenti-703883116

Yamuna Paudel, Intel Corporation, https://www.linkedin.com/in/yamuna-paudel-b9757b121

 

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, AMETEK Hughes-Treitler, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefferson-almonte-2682b2122/

Anne Zats, Ramboll, https://www.linkedin.com/in/annezats

Estella Shklyar, University of Chicago, https://www.linkedin.com/in/estella-shklyar-859000259