Research interests: Epsilon-Near-Zero materials; metasurfaces; photonic crystal-based and disordered optical devices
Biography
Sebastian Schulz joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo as Associate professor in September 2024. Before hand he was the head of the Nanophotonics research group and a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of St Andrews. Prof Schulz obtained both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Physics at the University of St Andrews. For his PhD he worked on slow light in photonic crystal waveguides, focusing mainly on the impact of disorder and propagation losses, in the group of Prof. Krauss. He then moved on to postdoctoral positions at the University of Ottawa (supervisor: Prof. Robert Boyd), the Cork Institute of Technology (now Munster Technical University) and Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland (Supervisor: Dr Liam O’Faolain). During this time, he continued to work on slow light and photonic crystal devices, but also extended his interest to include nonlinear optics, optical metasurfaces, epsilon-near-zero materials and non-reciprocal optics. In 2018, he was appointed Lecturer at the University of St Andrews.
Education
- 2008-2012 PhD, Physics, University of St Andrews, UK
- 2004-2008 MPhys, Physics, University of St Andrews, UK
