Oliver Monti

Oliver Monti is a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Physics and has held the Homer C. and Emily Davis Weed Endowed Chair in Chemistry (2020-2023). He has degrees from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Oxford (UK) and was a postdoctoral fellow at JILA in Boulder, CO.

His research focuses on electronic structure, spin properties and ultrafast dynamics in cutting-edge semiconductor materials, including organic semiconductors and atomically thin 2D materials, and quantum materials to develop the necessary insights for building next-generation low-power electronic devices. He is also at the forefront of developing single molecule based devices that are at the absolute limit of miniaturization and exhibit highly tunable and unprecedented electronic properties. He heads EPSILON-UA and is faculty advisor of LESSA, two premier research facilities for both on- and off-campus researchers to probe semiconductor interfaces, electronic structure, spintronic behavior on micron length-scales.

Oliver enjoys teaching all things quantum mechanics, thermodynamics and condensed matter physics.

Focus Area

2D materials, spin-resolved band structure, transport, ultrafast carrier dynamics