Raymond Blackwell
Assistant Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Office: Physics B 103
Research Group Website | Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2024 Feb 18)
Biography:
Raymond Blackwell has been an assistant professor at Stony Brook since August of 2025.
Prior to starting as an assistant professor, he was an IDEA Fellow from 2023-2025.
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.)