Principal investigator
 
Masaru Kuno
Assistant 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

Biography
Washington University in St. Louis, B. A. 1989-1993
Advisors: John M. Jean and William E. Buhro

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physical Chemistry, Ph. D. 1993-1998
Advisor: Moungi G. Bawendi
Thesis: Band edge spectroscopy of CdSe quantum dots

JILA/NIST/University of Colorado 1998-2001
NRC Postdoctoral fellow
Advisors: David J. Nesbitt and Alan Gallagher

US Naval Research Laboratory, Optical Science Division, Code 5611, 2001-2003
Research Scientist

University of Notre Dame, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2003-Present
Assistant Professor

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


Some recent books read in my "free" time
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)