Matthew completed his B.S. in chemistry with a minor in physics at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly, SLO) in June of 2015. In the summer of 2014, he participated in the Radiochemistry Fuel Cycle Summer School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he began investigating the lattice structure of doped scheelite materials using density functional theory (DFT). Matt continued this work through the summer of 2015 before moving to Chicago to begin a Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago that September. He joined the PGS lab in December of 2015 to begin work on mid-infrared photodetection.

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B.S., Indian Institute of Science  Read more about Ananth at  http://ananthkamath95.wixsite.com/ananth

ananthkamath@uchicago.edu

Menglu comes from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2015. She is interested in the electrical transport studies in infrared quantum dot films. In the PGS group she works on using electrochemistry methods to understand the doping and band structure of mercury chalcogenide quantum dots.

mengluchen@uchicago.edu

Chris completed his B.A. in chemistry and music at the University of Rochester in 2016. There, with Lewis Rothberg, he studied the  photophysics in organic polymer light emitting diode (OLED) materials, and built a time-resolved resonance Raman instrument for the study of photocatalytic reaction mechanisms. With the PGS group, he studies the carrier dynamics in mercury chalcogenide nanocrystals using a variety of linear and nonlinear mid-infrared optical spectroscopies.

Xin Tang received his B.E. degree in Engineering from the Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong in 2017. His research interests include design, fabrication and optimization of quantum infrared photodetectors based on nanomaterials.