Connor G. Bischak
(He/Him/His)
University of Utah
Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry (2021-present)
University of Washington
Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. David Ginger (2018-2021)
UC Berkeley
PhD in Chemistry with Prof. Naomi Ginsberg (2011-2017)
Ruhr University, Bochum
Fulbright Fellow with Prof. Martina Havenith (2010-2011)
Haverford College
B.S. in Chemistry, minor in German Studies, research with Prof. Casey Londergan (2006-2010)
Invited Talks
American Chemical Society Virtual Postdoc Symposium “Electrochemically-driven structural phase transitions in conjugated polymers” Virtual, 11/2020
American Chemical Society Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting & Expo “Electrochemically-driven structural phase transitions in conjugated polymers” Virtual, 8/2020 (ACS PHYS Young Investigator Award Talk)
University of Chicago Special Seminar “From Solar Cells to Bioelectronics: The Interplay Between Electron and Ion Transport in Soft Semiconducting Materials” Chicago, IL, 1/2020.
Gaballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials Special Seminar “Coupled ionic-electronic-structural dynamics in organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors” Stanford, CA, 10/2019
Advanced Light Source 2018 User Meeting “Observing dynamic processes with cathodoluminescence-activated imaging” Berkeley, CA, 10/2018
American Physical Society March Meeting 2017 “Carrier, ion, and phonon mediated phase transitions in mixed halide perovskite nanostructures via low-exposure cathodoluminescence imaging” New Orleans, LA, 3/2017
252nd National Meeting and Exposition of the ACS “Elucidating the nanoscale dynamics of photo-induced phase separation in mixed halide hybrid perovskites” Philadelphia, PA, 8/2016
249th National Meeting and Exposition of the ACS “Cathodoluminescence-Activated Nano-Imaging by Resonant Energy Transfer” Denver, CO, 3/2015
Awards and Honors
ACS PMSE Future Faculty Scholar (2021)
Cottrell Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021)
ACS PHYS Young Investigator Award (2020)
Momental Research Fellowship (2019-2021)
UW Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Travel Award (2019)
Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018-2021)
Edmund Optics Educational Award Finalist (2017)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2011-2016)
Fulbright Research Fellow (2010-2011)
American Institute of Chemists Student Award (2010)