Nicholas Rivera
Assistant Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Welcome! Here, you can learn about our research on light-matter interactions. Light-matter interactions are central to a wide range of technologies and applications such as lasers, sensors, materials characterization, optical communication, computing, and medical imaging. With my collaborators, I work on identifying new fundamental effects in light-matter interactions, and translating these new effects into new devices and new applications.
Our lab does both theoretical and experimental work, and the interaction between theory and experiment is a basic feature of our work. Also of major importance to us is developing first-principles computational methods to accurately predict the results of experiments. We have a strong track-record of developing models that both closely track experiments and predict new effects.
About me
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. My research focuses on the physics of light and matter, especially quantum and nonlinear optical systems where new physical effects can be understood, controlled, and translated into new technologies.
