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

• charge carrier and energy transfer in low dimensional materials and related interfaces: quantum dots, 2D vDW materials, nanowires.

Research Activities

-electron transfer in nanostructures and nanocomposites.

-organic-inorganic and biological-inorganic hybrids.

-solar harvesting, sensing, self-assembly. 

Education

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

Professional Appointments

• Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2007-on, Staff Scientist.

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

519th Brookhaven Lecture

Brookhaven Science and Technology Award 2020

Battelle Inventor for 2019

Director's Postodoctoral Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM

ESF Human Frontier for Science Promotion Visiting Postdoc, Harvard University, MA