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The Arthur Nozik Lecture Series honors the research and career of Prof. Nozik, who has been a leader in the thriving ecosystem of renewable energy research that has developed along the front range over the last four decades. This lecture was recorded on December 9, 2024.

Biography:

Matthew C. Beard is a senior laboratory research fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Director of the Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE) and Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the Office of Science within DOE.  Beard is also a Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute a joint research institute between NREL and CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and an Adjoint professor within the Chemistry department of Colorado School of Mines.  Beard has been at NREL since 2003 (working for Arthur Nozik) and before that graduated from the Yale Chemistry Department where he received his Ph.D. degree developing non-contact ultrafast probes of carrier dynamics in semiconductors and semiconductor nanocrystals with Charlie Schmuttenmaer.  Beard also served as Associate director for the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics.  Beard is a fellow of the AAAS, American Physical Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Beard is listed a Clarivate highly cited researcher from 2023-2018 with over 200 publications.  Beard was awarded the 2020 H.M. Hubbard award, the 2022 E.O. Lawarence Award from DOE, the RSC Chemical Dynamics award, and NREL’s highest impact paper in 2024.  Beard serves on the editorial boards of Phyiscal Review Letters (divisional editor), ACS Energy Letters and Journal of Chemical Physics.  He has 10 patents and patent applications under review and given  > 150 invited presentations, including being named the 2024 Alexander Cruickshank Gordon research conference lecturer, the 2022 McElvain lecturer at U. of Wisconsin, and the 2024 William Chupka Lecturer at Yale University.