Four years in the making and now finally out in @Nature: Super excited to share with you my first paper on achieving electrically tunable #quantum confinement of excitons! Huge shoutout to all my brilliant collaborators!
@Chakothra @ETH_physics@eth_dmavt
https://t.co/U2mzynoLXV
The startups YC funds now are much more serious than they were in the supposedly good old days. In the last couple days I've met with startups making optical switches, rewriting the software infrastructure of manufacturing, making nuclear reactors, and curing cancer.
Another PhDone! Yesterday, Dr. Prachi Thureja successfully defended her thesis, "Electrically Reconfigurable Optical Metasurfaces for Universal Wavefront Shaping." Next, onto her postdoc in NYC! 🍎🏙️🤩
Applications are OPEN for the Gordon Research Conference/Seminar on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics 2024! 📆Join fellow academics from across the world in Maine from July 6-12, 2024, to discuss cutting-edge research. 🎙️GRS student talk deadline: March 31. Limited spots – Apply now!
I am beyond excited for my friend, colleague, and academic grandfather Moungi Bawendi to receive the #NobelPrize in Chemistry!!! I can’t think of a scientist whose papers have made me utter “wow” to myself more often than his. That was as true 30 years ago as it is today. 1/n
Congratulations to Ankur on passing his defense and becoming Dr. Thureja! We are very proud and we‘re sure we‘ll see more great science from your postdoc in the US! You‘ll be missed @d_thureja
Community matters. And the support that you receive from your community means everything. Incredibly honored to be selected as a co-recipient of the @KNI_Caltech Catalyst Award! 🙏
https://t.co/LWETTY7ykq
Thrilled to have hosted our first proper lab tour in our new home for these bright and curious students supported by the Swiss Study Foundation! We got bombarded with questions 😅
This is a letter Feynman wrote to a former student who wrote congratulating him for the Nobel. I’ve posted it before but I really find it worth it to read especially as a student or early stage research person.
This one is close to the heart: Incredibly grateful to receive the @CaltechEAS New Horizons DEI Award for leading Womxn in EAS! Shoutout to my fellow womxn scientists for contributing with their energy and passion to empower one another! 👩🔬🔬 #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/deyE46FkT7
Academic job seekers often think that because they didn't get a job one year, or didn't get a particular job, there's something they should change in their application. That's often a mistake. Here are some reasons you maybe didn't get the job that are beyond your control(thread)
What does it take to realize a universal active metasurface to control all properties of light? Check out our perspective published in @Nanophotonics_J! Big thanks to my co-authors for their contributions and the ever-so-engaging coffee room discussions ☕️
https://t.co/869B5WoBqd
What, in your opinion, have been the most significant developments in condensed matter physics in the last 20 years?
I (like everyone else) find it hard to separate "this is important" from "this became a thing" in my thinking.
Apparently, the new neighbors are fellow academics. I hope they're nice and if not I'll rename my WiFi to eduroam and make them go crazy over their login details not working...
ETH researchers have succeeded for the 1st time in trapping excitons - quasiparticles consisting of negatively charged electrons and positively charged holes – in a semiconductor material using controllable electric fields.
https://t.co/DyK8U9zWk5
@eth_dmavt@ETH_physics