Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics

Thomas Allison, PhD

"Recording Movies of Molecular Orbitals with °Angstr¨om and Attosecond Resolution"

Tom Allison develops and utilizes new light sources and techniques to follow the motions of molecular systems in real-time. Developing new technologies and physics ideas go hand in hand with gaining insight into chemical dynamics. He earned his BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University and his PhD in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He started at Stony Brook in 2013 after a postdoctoral fellowship at JILA.

Associate Professor
Laufer Center for
Physical & Quantitative Biology
and Department of Biomedical Engineering 

Gábor Balázsi, PhD

"Tuning Multicellularity to Uncover its Role in Drug Resistance"

Gábor Balázsi, PhD, joined Stony Brook University in 2014 as the Henry Laufer Associate Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology to lead an interdisciplinary research group that utilizes synthetic gene circuits to control genes in yeast and human cells. Using such gene circuits, he wants to understand how genes control fundamental biological processes underlying microbial drug resistance and cancer.

Dr. Balázsi’s postdoctoral research focused on designing synthetic gene circuits to study how cellular diversity promotes drug resistance. Over the past decade he's expanded on these efforts, building and using synthetic gene circuits as new tools for understanding antibiotic resistance and cancer metastasis.

Dr. Balázsi was named a finalist for the inaugural Discovery Prize in 2014, and is a recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award created to “stimulate highly innovative research.”

Matthew Reuter, PhD

"Characterizing Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Quantum Mechanical Systems"

Matt Reuter joined Stony Brook University in January 2015. Prior to coming to Stony Brook he was a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University, where he studied single-molecule behavior. He received BSc degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics from Michigan Technological University (2006) and a PhD degree in Theoretical/Computational Chemistry from Northwestern University in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he developed theories and algorithms for studying electron transport processes and materials chemistry. Matt's research interests focus on electron dynamics in nanometer-scale systems and combine chemical physics, applied mathematics, and computational science.

Neelima Sehgal, PhD

"Unveiling the First Moments of the Universe's Creation with CMB Delensing and the Simons Observatory"

Neelima Sehgal is a Cosmologist in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Stony Brook.  She studies the cosmic microwave background, which is the oldest light in the Universe, to determine what happened during the first few fractions of a second after the Big Bang. She also studies the microwave background to discover the properties of neutrinos, dark matter, and dark energy. Neelima is a member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory Collaborations. She received her BS in Physics and Mathematics from Yale University and her PhD in Physics and Astronomy from Rutgers University.  She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford and Princeton Universities before joining the faculty at Stony Brook in 2012.