Tisdale Lab @ MIT

The Tisdale Lab welcomes its two newest members: Matt Ashner and Nabeel Dahod. Matt is a first-year PhD student in Chemical Engineering who will focus on near-field optical spectroscopy. Nabeel is also a first-year PhD student in Chemical Engineering, who is interested in exciton diffusion and energy transfer at nanostructured materials interfaces.

Mark Weidman and Jolene Mork received Best Poster Award nominations at the Fall 2013 MRS Meeting in Boston. Mark’s poster “Synthesis of Monodisperse, Air-Stable PbS Nanocrystals via Precursor Stoichiometry Control” was nominated in Symposium W: Next-Generation Inorganic Thin Film Photovoltaics. Jolene’s poster “Reassessment of Forster Theory in CdSe Colloidal Quantum Dot Films” was nominated in Symposium N: Functional Aspects of Luminescent and Photoactive Organic and Soft Materials.

Pooja Tyagi joins the Tisdale Lab as a postdoctoral associate. She comes to us from McGill University, where she studied photophysics of semiconductor nanocrystals with Pat Kambhampati. In the Tisdale Lab, Pooja joins the ultrafast team exploring interfacial exciton dynamics in nanostructured materials and developing a novel ultrafast microscopy technique.

Megan Beck has joined the Tisdale Lab as an MPC-CMSE summer student. Megan is a senior at Boise State University double-majoring in Materials Science and Math and minoring in Physics. She will spend the summer exploring the synthesis and characterization of colloidal quantum dots. Welcome Megan!

Areza Sumitro (ChemE ’15) is a recipient of summer research funding from the MIT Energy Initiative Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (MITei-UROP). MITei will support Areza’s work this summer to develop strategies for controlled deposition of function colloidal quantum dot thin films. Areza will also have the opportunity to participate in networking events and energy programs on campus. Congratulations Areza!

Will is a recipient of the 2013 Early Career Award from the Department of Energy.

Across the Office of Science divisions, 61 awards were made out of about 770 proposals that went out for peer-review. The award is $750,000 over 5 years, and will support the group’s experimental efforts to develop a deeper understanding of interfacial electronic processes in next-generation solar cells.

On April 10^th, Lisa attended the conference “Women Inspire Innovation”, organized by the Swiss Embassy in Washington D.C.  She was invited to this event by ETH Zürich because she founded the organization “LIMES” (Ladies In Mechanical and Electrical Studies, www.limes.ethz.ch) for women in mechanical and electrical engineering at ETH.

At the conference she listened to keynote speeches by inspiring Swiss and American personalities including Rebecca Spyke Keiser, Senior Manager for Women@NASA, Cora B. Marrett, Acting Director of the NSF, Professor Kathryn Hess Bellwald of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and Shelly Kapoor Collins, CEO of Enscient Corporation and  National Co-Chair of Technology for Obama (see photo).

Lisa (right) and Shelly Kapoor Collins, CEO of Enscient Corporation and National Co-Chair of Technology for the Obama Administration (left), overlooking the Capitol in Washington D.C.

Areza Sumitro has joined the Tisdale Lab as a UROP.  Welcome!

The Tisdale Lab welcomes Lisa Poulikakos!  Lisa is a visiting student from the Norris group at ETH Zürich, and will be completing her Master’s thesis in our lab.  Welcome Lisa!

This month, we completed the move to our new renovated lab space on the first floor of Building 66. See our facilities page for more details!