Professor Holger Schmidt

Biography

Prof. Holger Schmidt received an M.S. degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, he joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001, where he is currently a Professor of electrical engineering and Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. He has authored or coauthored over 200 publications and several book chapters in various field of optics. His research interests are in single particle optics, including single-photon nonlinearities, nano-magneto-optics, and single-molecule studies in optofluidic devices. Dr. Schmidt is a member of the OSA, IEEE, and APS, and is coeditor of the CRC Handbook of Optofluidics. He was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2002 and a Keck Futures Nanotechnology Award in 2005.

Prof. Schmidt has authored or coauthored over 130 publications and several book chapters in various field of optics. He is co-editor of the CRC Press' Handbook of Optofluidics. Dr. Schmidt is a member of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. He is a member of the California Institiute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), and the Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC). He directs the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics at UC Santa Cruz .

Research interests:
- Single particle optics
- Integrated optofluidics
- Integrated optics for biomedical applications
- Nano-magneto-optics, nano-magnetism
- Time-resolved spectroscopy of molecules, semiconductors and nanostructures
- Quantum interference, electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)
- Nonlinear optics
- Quantum optics
- All-optical semiconductor devices