Masaru Kuno Associate Professor of Chemistry University of Notre Dame Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 251 Nieuwland Science Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574)-631-0494 mkuno@nd.edu Honors Cottrell Teacher Scholar Fellow NSF CAREER Award NRC Postdoctoral Fellow Corning Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow Sigma Xi Phi Beta Kappa Summa Cum Laude, Washington University in St. Louis

Biography Washington University in St. Louis, B. A. 1989-1993 Advisors: John M. Jean and William E. Buhro link1, link2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physical Chemistry, Ph. D. 1993-1998 Advisor: Moungi G. Bawendi Thesis: Band edge spectroscopy of CdSe quantum dots link1, link2 JILA/NIST/University of Colorado 1998-2001 NRC Postdoctoral fellow Advisors: David J. Nesbitt and Alan Gallagher link1 US Naval Research Laboratory, Optical Science Division, Code 5611, 2001-2003 Research Scientist University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2003-2009 Assistant Professor University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2009-Present Associate Professor

Some recent books read in my "free" time
Plastic Fantastic, How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world (Eugenie S. Reich) +
Sway: The irresistible pull of irrational behavior (Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman) +
Talent is overrated (Geoff Colvin) +/-
Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) +
How Starbucks saved my life (Michael Gates Gill) +
The unthinkable, who survives when disaster strikes and why (Amanda Ripley) -
Accidental asian (Eric Liu) +/-
Into the wild (Jon Krakauer) +/-
American Vertigo: Traveling American in the footsteps of Tocqueville (Bernard-Henri Levi) -
American Prometheus: The triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin) +/-
Deep survival (Laurence Gonzales) +/-
Shutting out the sun: How Japan created its own lost generation (Michaeil Zielenziger) +
Social Intelligence (Daniel Goldman) +/-
Freakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner) +
John Stossel: Myths, lies and downright stupidity (John Stossel) -
The world is flat (Thomas Friedman) +
Blink, The power of thinking without thinking (Malcolm Gladwell) +
Linked (Albert-Laszlo Barabasi) +
How would you move Mount Fuji (William Poundstone) +/-
Letters to a teacher (Sam Pickering) +
How the laser happened (Charles Townes) +
What's the matter with Kansas (Thomas Frank) +/-
Career warfare (David D'Alessandro) +
Of paradise and power, America and Europe in the new world order (Robert Kagan) +
Hard America soft America (Michael Baron) +
Bringing down the house. The inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions. (Ben Mezrich) +
The Idea Factory: Learning to think at M.I.T (Pepper White) +/-