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
Project: Integrating magnetic resonance and optical pump-probe spectroscopy for solar energy and thermal management materials
Project: Singlet Exciton Fission
CUNY Graduate Students
Project: Inorganic Nanostructures for LED and energy application
Kamyar Rishidi
Project: Organic Exciton-Polaritons
Project: Photocatalysis
Project: Ultrafast Methods Development; Organic Nonlinear Optics
Visiting and Undergraduate Students
Project: Singlet Fission
Project: Ultrafast Methods Development
Co-Advised Graduate Students
Project: Singlet Exciton Fission
Advisor: Luis Campos, Columbia University