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 interfaces: quantum dots, 2D van Der Waals materials, including perovskites.
• ultrafast spectroscopy and single nanostructure optical microscopy.

Research Activities

-photoinduced electron transfer in nanostructures and nanocomposites.

-2D heterostructures and hybrids including self-assembly

-solar harvesting, sensing, quantum materials characterization

Education

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

Professional Appointments

• Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2007-2013, Assistant through Associate Scientitst (term appointment)
• Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2014-current, Scientist (S4) with indefinite appointment (now RS6).

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