The Physics Department
Jean Michel Nunzi
Professor
Physics & Chemistry, Queen's University
Bio
Dr. Jean-Michel Nunzi is a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Chiral Photonics and holds a cross appointment in the Physics and Chemistry departments at Queen's University. He obtained his PhD in Physics on nonlinear optics with surface plasmons at l’Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau and worked for 16 years as full time researcher on Organic Devices at Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique in Saclay before becoming a University Professor. He is a Fellow of the Institute Physics (FInstP), UK.
Nunzi Research Group aims at developing tools and techniques for sustainable development: affordable and clean energy, climate action, sustainable cities and communities.
Technical interests are the optical and electronic properties of organic, nano and 2-Dimensional-materials and devices: their photo-physics, nonlinear optics, self-organization under light, charge generation and transport, nano-materials, photo-catalysis and bio-inspired nano-photonics.
His research group develops hot-electron emission devices, solar cells, plastic lasers, and study neuronal optical-computing and the fabrication of passive cooling/heating metamaterials.
They also study the fabrication of chiral structures using light - matter interactions and its implications in life-sciences.