ABOUT
Dr. Matthew Sfeir is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Science and Engineering and the Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency.
He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Columbia University. He held a postdoc position at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department.
Prior to joining GT, he was a staff member at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory followed by position at the City University of New York, where he was an Associate Professor in the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and in the Physics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center.
EDUCATION & AWARDS
Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (2005), Columbia University, New York, NY.
B.S. in Chemistry (2000), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Tenure
Experimental Physics Investigator, Moore Foundation, 2023.
Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science Group, 2019.
Battelle “Inventor of the Year”, 2018.
Foreign Expert in “One-hundred Talents Project” Hubei Province, P. R. China, 2017.
R & D 100 Award “Multimodal Optical Nanoprobe for Advanced Electron Microscopy”, 2011.
Ph. D. with Distinction, 2005.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Matthew Sfeir's group investigates macromolecular and nanoscale materials with unconventional functional properties that can be leveraged in emerging sustainable energy technologies and specializes in (i) the development of non-invasive and high-throughput ultrafast methods based on optical, infrared, and terahertz radiation to address challenging chemical and materials science problems, (ii) organic and nanoscale materials with strongly interacting electronic, vibrational, and spin degrees of freedom, and (iii) the design and implementation of nanophotonic platforms that enhance the performance of photophysical and photochemical light harvesting processes.