Ankit S. Disa

Principal Investigator

Ankit Disa earned his B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University in 2016. His doctoral work focused on manipulating electronic and magnetic properties of complex oxides through the synthesis of atomically precise heterostructures.

He then joined the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany as a postdoctoral scientist, where he developed novel methods to control functional properties on ultrafast time scales using THz light. In 2017, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship.

In 2019, he became a fellow of the Max Planck-NYC Center for Non-equilibrium Quantum Phenomena based at Columbia University. He returned to Cornell in July 2022 to join the faculty in Applied and Engineering Physics as an Assistant Professor.