Ryan P Smith Faculty Profile
Ryan P Smith
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
- E-mail: ryan.p.smith at csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-4418
- Office: NS 216 /(Lab NS 251)
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Ryan Smith comes from the east coast, where he completed his B.S. in Physics in 2004 at Georgia Tech. His Ph.D. work at the University of Colorado involved using lasers to study the connection between quantum states of light and many-body electronic dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures. Dr. Smith spent a year in South Korea researching quantum dot solar cells, before coming to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Science Division. At Berkeley, Dr. Smith developed techniques and performed experiments in ultrafast optical and terahertz spectroscopy on nanostructure materials such as graphene and plasmonics. Dr. Smith joined the Physics Department at California State University East Bay in the fall of 2015 and is enthusiastic about engaging students in learning and researching physics.
Renewable energy materials, ultrafast optics, spectroscopy from the terahertz to visible range, nanoscale phenomena, advanced laboratory education.
- B.S. Physics, Georgia Tech (2004)
- Ph.D. Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder (2010)
Not teaching this semester.