Sebastian Schulz (He/Him)

Dr. Sebastian Schulz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Before joining Waterloo, he served as the head of the Nanophotonics research group and a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of St Andrews. Dr. Schulz earned both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Physics from the University of St Andrews, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Ottawa and the Cork Institute of Technology. His research focuses on novel optical materials and structures that enable control of dispersion and scattering of light, with applications in areas such as metrology and data communications.

• Nanophotonics

• Plasmonics

• Metamaterials

• Metasurfaces

• Nonlinear optics

• Photonic crystals

• Nanometrology

Dr Schulz is interested in photonic materials and structures that control the dispersion and scattering of light to enable new applications in fields such as metrology, communications and light manipulation in general.

This includes:

- Epsilon-near-zero materials for nonlinear optics

- Tunable optical metasurfaces

- Hybrid-epsilon near zero metasurfaces

- slow light based optical delay lines

- nanophotonic displacement sensors

- on-chip speckle spectrometers

• 2008-2012 PhD, Physics, University of St Andrews, UK

• 2004-2008 MPhys, Physics, University of St Andrews, UK

• ECE 635 - Fabrication in the Nanoscale: Principles, Technology, & Applications
  • Taught in 2025
• NE 353 - Nanoprobing and Lithography
  • Taught in 2025
• NE 461 - Micro and Nano-instrumentation
  • Taught in 2025

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