Jeffrey Moses

Biography

Jeff Moses joined the faculty in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University in 2014. Before that, he worked at MIT as a research scientist and principal investigator of federally sponsored research programs in ultrafast laser methods, laser technology and molecular physics. Moses received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 2007, and his B.Sc. from Yale in 2001, with both degrees in Applied Physics. In 2013, he was named an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator

Research Interest

Jeff Moses' research group focuses on capturing "ultrafast phenomena" in real time (i.e., capturing events so brief as to be barely detectable by state-of-the-art technology), and on developing the light-pulse technologies for doing so. We focus on using laser pulses analogously to strobe lights, in order to view brief moments during the coordinated motions of electrons and coupled particles. Such techniques fall under the category of ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy, and within the purview of the broad field of nonlinear optics