Raymond Blackwell
IDEA Fellow
Physics and Astronomy
Office: Physics B 103
Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2024 Feb 18)
Biography:
Raymond Blackwell has been an IDEA Fellow at Stony Brook University since September
of 2023. Prior to joining Stony Brook, Raymond completed a postdoc at Brookhaven National
Laboratory and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of California-Berkeley
where he used Scanned Probe Microscopy (SPM) techniques to study nanographenes. Outside
of the lab, Raymond is likely watching his beloved University of North Carolina Tar
Heels or otherwise playing baseball in New York City.
Research Statement:
My current research focuses on utilizing Scanned Probe Microscopy (SPM) techniques
to study emergent phenomena in strongly correlated material systems. Of particular
interest is gaining a deeper understanding of superconductivity in both iron and copper
based compounds and using SPM to understand correlated physics in two-dimensional
systems (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.)