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 ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥. 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.