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TECHNICAL TALK: Advanced photonic materials for sustainability

 

CAREER-FOCUSED TALK: Photonics research across borders: opportunities and challenges of globalization

 

Dr. Marina Leite is a Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and a Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Davis (USA). She has >80 publications (with 38 journal covers) and has delivered >200 invited talks at conferences and research institutions around the globe. Leite is a Fellow of Optica and of SPIE, a senior member of IEEE and a 2026 IEEE Photonics Lectureship Awardee, a 2025 ACS Energy Lectureship Award finalist, an awardee of the 2016 APS Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship from the American Physical Society and of the 2014 Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award. Her research interests encompass materials for sustainability and for photonics (including transient devices and photonics switchability), the visualization of dynamic processes at the nanoscale in unconventional semiconductors and the use of AI to forecast their behavior. Before joining UC Davis, Leite was an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also worked at NIST and was a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech. Under her guidance, the researchers in the group have received 97 awards in the last 13 years, including 11 NSF graduate fellowships.