Todd D. Krauss

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Optics

Office: Hutchison 465
Phone: (585) 275-5093
E-mail: krauss@chem.rochester.edu

Short Biography
Prof. Krauss received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Applied Physics all from Cornell University, the latter under Frank Wise. Upon graduation in 1998, he moved t Columbia University, serving as a postdoctoral fellow under Louis Brus until 2000 when he joined the Chemistry faculty at the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor. In 2006, Krauss was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Chemistry and in 2008 he received a joint appointment with Optics. The author of more than 50 publications in peer reviewed journals, Krauss also lectures locally and nationally on the optics of nanometer scale materials. Krauss is the director of the Nano and Optical Materials Cluster at the University, and most recently received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2005), and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2004).

Research
Prof. Krauss' main research area concern understanding the fundamental properties of materials with a size in between indivdual molecules and macroscopic objects. These nanometer scale materials have physical characteristics that are strong functions of their size and shape, with prperties that can be easily manipulated to address a given application. His group's investigations in this area are currently focused on fundamental phtophysical studies of carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots, and the integration of these materials into both novel devices for solar energy conversion and biological sensors. These studies are highly interdisciplinary, and lie at the interface between chemistry, optics, physics, applies physics, and materials science.

For further details, go to Prof. Krauss' home page at: http://chem.rochester.edu/~krauss/