P.James Schuck

Jim Schuck and his research group aim to characterize, understand and control light-matter interactions, with a focus on sensing, engineering and exploiting novel quantum and optoelectronic properties emerging from nanostructures and interfaces. This offers unprecedented opportunities for developing innovative material and device functionalities that rely on dynamic, local manipulation of single photons and charge carriers.  They gain their knowledge by correlating spatially-dependent physical properties (e.g. electronic structure, excitonic interactions) with chemical information (e.g. molecular composition, reaction rates and dynamics) and morphological structure (e.g. strain, phase).

He is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a principal investigator with Columbia's Department of Energy EFRC on Programmable Quantum Materials. He is also a co-director of Columbia's M.S. in Quantum Science and Technology.