QSE Faculty

Daniel Jafferis

jafferis@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Physics

The research of Daniel Jafferis involves string theory, supersymmetric quantum field theory, and quantum gravity. String theory unifies many fundamental questions in theoretical physics, including the search for a complete description of quantum gravity...

Efthimios (Tim) Kaxiras

kaxiras@physics.harvard.edu

Chair, Department of Physics

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics

The modern theory of materials, based on the quantum theory of solids and powerful computational methods, makes it possible to apply the theoretical concepts to realistic situations. This allows researchers to explain experimental findings in great detail...

Philip Kim

pkim@physics.harvard.edu

Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics

Philip Kim is an experimental condensed matter physicist. The focus of Kim group’s research is the mesoscopic investigation of various physical phenomena in low dimensional and nanostructured materials. In a nanoscaled material, effectively reduced...

Boris Kozinsky

bkoz@seas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Computational Materials Science

Boris Kozinsky works at the intersection of fundamental physics of materials properties, efficient computational algorithms, and data-intensive informatics approaches. The overall vision is to leverage the rapidly expanding power of computation and data...

Na Li

nali@seas.harvard.edu

Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics

I am a Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University and a research affiliate in Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at...

Xin Li

lixin@seas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Materials Science

Xin Li’s research group at Harvard University focuses on the design of next generation energy storage materials through advanced synthesis, test, characterization and simulation. By combining electrochemistry, microscopy, spectroscopy, first principle...

Marko Lončar

loncar@seas.harvard.edu

Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics

Harvard College Professor

Marko Lončar is Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard's John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), as well as Harvard College Professor. Lončar received his Diploma from University of Belgrade (R. Serbia) in...

Yue Lu

yuelu@seas.harvard.edu

Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Mathematics

Yue M. Lu was born in Shanghai. After finishing undergraduate studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical...

Mikhail Lukin

lukin@physics.harvard.edu

George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics

Mikhail Lukin received his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University in 1998. He has been on the faculty of the Harvard Physics Department since 2001, where he is currently the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics, as well as a co-Director of the...

Jarad Mason

mason@chemistry.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

After growing up in North Carolina, Jarad earned B.S. and M.S. degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. While there, he worked in the lab of Professor Larry Sneddon on the synthesis of ultra-high-temperature ceramics from polymer precursors and the...

Eric Mazur

mazur@physics.harvard.edu

Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics

Eric Mazur’s research group uses ultra-short laser pulses to study ultrafast dynamics in physical systems and to create extreme non-equilibrium conditions in matter. For instance, ultrashort laser pulses provide a direct view of the ultrafast carrier and...

Julia Mundy

mundy@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Physics

Julia Mundy is an experimental condensed matter physicist. Her research combines thin film deposition with advanced characterization techniques to design, synthesize and probe novel quantum materials at the atomic-scale.