Tisdale Lab @ MIT

This winter, the Tisdale Lab welcomed the addition of three new PhD students: Sam Winslow (Chem Eng), Seung Kyun Ha (Chem Eng), and Oat Paritmongkol (Phys Chem). Read about them on our People page!

Tisdale Lab postdoc Dan Congreve has accepted a new principle investigator position at the Rowland Institute at Harvard! In August 2016, Dan will become one of a new batch of Rowland Junior Fellows, starting his own research lab at Harvard. These highly competitive fellowships offer institutional and financial support for up to five years, enabling outstanding young researchers to establish independent research careers. Read more about Dan’s new lab here. Congratulations Dan!

Will is a recipient of one of the 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships in Chemistry. The award will support scholarly activities in the Tisdale Lab!

Will Tisdale is among the newest recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)! He will travel to Washington, D.C., this spring to receive his award from President Obama at the White House. Will was nominated by the Department of Energy, Office of Science, for his research into excited state dynamics at surfaces.

Rachel received an Outstanding Student Poster Award from the Division of Colloid and Surface Science at the recent ACS Fall Meeting held in Boston for her work “Upconversion of Trapped Charge Carriers in Electronically Coupled PbS Quantum Dot Solids.” Congratulations, Rachel!

You can hear Will talk about the importance of nanoscale science & engineering in the latest promotional video for MIT.nano. View the video on YouTube.

Will will receive a 2015 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The 5-year award, which is jointly funded by the Division of Chemistry and The Division of Materials Research, will support studies of vibrational relaxation in semiconductor nanocrystals and nanocrystal arrays, as well as new teaching and outreach activities.

Pooja’s recent publication on colloidal organohalide perovskite nanoplatelets was listed among the top 20 “most read articles” in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. in May!

Congratulations to Matt Ashner, who is the Tisdale Lab’s newest recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship!

Mark’s comprehensive study of interparticle spacing and structural ordering in superlattice PbS nanocrystal assemblies was featured on the cover of the January 27, 2015, issue of Chemistry of Materials.