Tisdale Lab @ MIT

Congratulations to Matt Ashner and Nabeel Dahod, who both successfully defended their Ph.D. theses in May 2019! Matt’s Ph.D. thesis in Chemical Engineering is titled “Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Exciton-Exciton Interactions in CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals.” Matt is headed to Los Angeles next where he will begin work as an engineer at Aerospace Corporation. Nabeel’s Ph.D. thesis in Chemical Engineering is titled “Nanoscale Origins of Thermal Transport Phenomena in Hybrid Layered Perovskites.” Nabeel is headed on an adventure in Spain before deciding on his next steps. Congratulations to both!

A short video describing research and education in the Tisdale Lab was produced for the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Check it out here.

Congratulations to Liza Lee, who successfully defended her PhD thesis “Nonequilibrium Energy Transport in Heterogeneous Nanoscale Semiconductors”. Liza is headed next to the University of Chicago, where she will begin a postdoctoral appointment in the groups of Juan de Pablo and Giulia Galli.

Congratulations to Aaron Goodman, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in Physical Chemistry in May!

Elizabeth M. Y. Lee, Chemical Engineering PhD student in the Tisdale Lab, won first place in the Electronics and Photonics Division Graduate Student Research Award at the 2017 AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Annual National Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.  The purpose of the award is to encourage graduate students to excel and to identify future leaders in the electronics and photonics field.  Liza presented “Energetic Disorder in Quantum Dot Solids,” revealing a new method she developed for creating phenomenological energy transport models for quantum dot solids.  Her approach unifies theory, experiment, and numerical simulations, bridging the gap between the varying length and time scales typically observed in spectroscopy experiments.

The MIT Energy Initiative produced a feature story on our QD research, which appeared on the cover of the quarterly MITei magazine and posted as a university research highlight on the DOE Office of Science homepage. The article is available here.

Congratulations to Rachel Gilmore, PhD, for successfully defending her thesis in Chemical Engineering! After a well-deserved vacation, Rachel will join the engineering consulting firm Creare LLC in Hanover, NH.

Our perspective article on perovskite nanoplatelets, which was featured on the cover of the June 27 issue of Chemistry of Materials as part of their “Up-and-Coming Series”, was the #1 most-downloaded article for the month of May, and remains in the top 10 this month!

Will has been selected by the Provost’s Office to receive the ARCO Career Development Chair, a competitive institute-wide professorship “presented to a promising untenured faculty member to support research and teaching in energy studies.”

Will was recently named the 2017 recipient of AIChE’s Nanoscale Science & Engineering Forum (NSEF) Young Investigator Award. The award recognizes outstanding interdisciplinary research in nanoscience and nanotechnology by engineers or scientists in the early stages of their professional careers (within 10 years of completion of highest degree). The award will be presented at the 2017 AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis in November.