Cating-Subramanian
I received my B.S. in Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University in 2010 and my Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2018. My doctoral work focused on the effect of nanostructure morphology and heterogeneity on charge and thermal transport and dynamics on the sub-micron and sub-picosecond scale.
I am interested in the development of spectromicroscopy techniques at the boundaries of spatial and temporal resolution, and the use of those techniques to study the relationship between nanoscale morphologies and ultrafast dynamics in nanostructured materials, metamaterials, and strongly correlated systems.
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