Xavier Sylvain Roy

Xavier Roy's materials chemistry lab focuses on the design and synthesis of organic and inorganic building blocks that can be assembled into functional electronic and magnetic materials. They study the chemical and physical principles that govern the organization of these building blocks into nanostructured materials and the emergence of collective physical properties that arise in these assemblies. They use a variety of techniques to prepare and explore these materials, including air-free synthesis, solid-state synthesis, single crystal and powder X-ray crystallography, spectroscopy, magnetometry and opto/magnetoelectrical device fabrication and measurement.

He is an Associate Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and a principal investigator with Columbia's Department of Energy EFRC on Programmable Quantum Materials and Columbia's National Science Foundation MRSEC on Precision-Assembled Quantum Materials.