Mircea Cotlet
Res Staff 6 Materials, Advanced Optical Facility/Soft/Bio Materials, Center for Functional Nanomaterials

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

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