Esther A. Wertz
Assistant Professor
Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Esther Wertz obtained her B.S. in Physics from the University of Paris 7 in 2005. She received her PhD in Physics in 2010 for the work she did with Dr. Jacqueline Bloch at the Laboratory for Photonics and Nanostructures in Marcoussis, France. There she pioneered the lab’s work on the formation and manipulation of polariton condensates in GaAs microcavities. Esther did her postdoctoral work with Dr. Julie Biteen at the University of Michigan, investigating the use of single-molecule techniques to probe the interactions between plasmonic antennas and single fluorescent dyes and proteins. She is the recipient of a PicoQuant Young Investigator Award. In 2015, Esther joined the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, & Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an Assistant Professor.
Research Interest
Experimental study of light-matter interactions at the single-molecule level, Design and characterization of plasmonic nanostructures
Publications
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E. Wertz, L. Ferrier, T. C. H. Liew, D. D. Solnyshkov, D. Sanvitto, P. Senellart, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, A. V. Kavokin, G. Malpuech and J. Bloch, Propagation and amplification dynamics of 1D polariton condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 216404 (2012).
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E. Wertz, B. P. Isaacoff, J. E. Donehue, and J. S. Biteen, Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Microscopy Reveals How Light Couples to a Plasmonic Nanoantenna on the Nanometer Scale, Nano Lett. 15, 2662 (2015).
