Mircea Cotlet

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Bldg. 735, Room 2019
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-7778
cotlet@bnl.gov

Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Highlights | Awards

Expertise

• Pump-probe ultrafast optical methods, single molecule/nanostructure optical spectroscopy and their application to 2D semiconductors, quantum dots and nanowires.
• carrier transport in nanomaterials and at interfaces. 

Research Activities

-interfacial charge carrier and energy transfer in heterostructures.

Education

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium, Physical Chemistry (Ph.D 2002)

Professional Appointments

• Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2007-on, Scientist RS6 with indefinite appointment.
• Stony Brook University, MSCE Department NY, Adjunct Professor and Lecturer (2010-on) 
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, Chemistry Division, Technical Staff Member (2006-2007)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, Chemistry Division, Director's Postdoc Fellow (2004-2006)
• Harvard University, MA, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, European Science Foundation postdoc (2003)
• Editorial Board Advisory Member for MDPI Photonics (2020-on) and Wiley - Particle and Particle Systems and Characterization (2018-on).

Research Highlights

• 519th Broohaven Lecture on Ultrafast Nanoscience
• Meet the 2020 Science & Technology Award Recipients
• Nanohybrid Structure Improves Efficiency of Light-Harvesting
• Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”
• Detecting light in a different dimension (2018)
• Understanding light-induced generation of currents in atomically thin semiconductors (2018)

Awards & Recognition

@BNL

519th Brookhaven Lecture

Brookhaven Science and Technology Award 2020

Battelle Inventor for 2019

prior to BNL

Director's Postdoctoral Fellow Los Alamos National Laboratory 2004

Human Frontier for Science Promotion visiting fellowship (ESF) 2003