Holger Schmidt received an M.S. degree in physics from the University of 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. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and holds the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics. He serves as Associate Dean for Research for the School of Engineering and Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. Prof. Schmidt has authored over 400 publications and several book chapters in various fields of optics. He recently edited the first Handbook of Optofluidics published with CRC Press. His research interests include single molecule detection and analysis in optofluidic devices, hollow-core waveguide photonics, atomic spectroscopy on a chip, nano-magneto-optics, and spintronics. He received an NSF Career Award in 2002 and a Keck Futures Nanotechnology Award in 2005. He was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2014 and Fellow of the IEEE in 2017.
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