Prof. Jonathan E. Halpert is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). Prof. Halpert’s work to date has focused on synthesizing novel nanomaterials in order to build thin film devices for optical and electronic applications. He started his career as an undergraduate majoring in ACS Chemistry at Tufts University with a minor in mathematics. After this he did his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he worked in the group of Prof. Moungi Bawendi, investigating methods of designing and synthesizing semiconductor nanocrystal (NC) heterostructures for use in nanocrystal optoelectronic devices, mainly quantum dot light emitting devices (QD-LEDs). He graduated with his PhD in Physical Chemistry with a thesis entitled “Design and Synthesis of Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Optoelectronic Applications”. In 2010 he received a Fellowship for Visiting Young Scientists to do postdoctoral work in the group of Prof. Dan Wang in the nanostructured materials division of the Institute for Process Engineering (IPE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing. After this, he worked for two years as a postdoctoral researcher for Prof. Neil Greenham in the Optoelectronics Group in the Cavendish lab at the University of Cambridge. There he fabricated solar cells from CIS nanocrystals to understand excited state and charge dynamics in these devices. In October of 2013, he left Cambridge and started as a lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) where he taught and performed research as a Rutherford Discovery Fellow (2014-