2021-2022 Graduate Student Fellow
Previous Faculty Advisor: Professor Paul Alivisatos
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Jason's research is centered around understanding the thermodynamics of small systems, particularly nanomaterials, with an emphasis on experimental calorimetry. During his Ph.D. and as a Kavli ENSI Philomathia fellow, Jason used isothermal titration calorimetry in Dr. Paul Alivisatos' lab to study molecular exchanges at the surfaces of colloidal quantum dots and developed modeling techniques to accurately describe the effect neighboring molecules had on the exchange. He also showed that many prototypical colloidal quantum dots have negative surface energies due to tightly binding molecules on their surfaces.
Currently, Jason is a postdoctoral fellow in the research lab of Dr. Jarad Mason at Harvard University, where he studies microporous water, an aqueous solution of nanocrystals that increases the gas capacity of water several orders of magnitude, and thermal transport in metal–organic frameworks and quantum dot superlattices.