Zakaria Al Balushi obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2017 from The Pennsylvania State University. He joined the Atwater group at Caltech in 2017 and focused his research on band alignment in two-dimensional and layered materials in order to design new heterojunctions for photonic and optoelectronic devices. Zak is currently an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley where his research group works on the creation of novel synthesis, processing and integration schemes for emerging electronic and photonic materials, and the development of new instrumentation that will ultimately aid in the discovery of new materials for microelectronics, optoelectronics and quantum technologies.
