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Professor Thomas (Tom) Kempa<\/h3>\n

Ph.D. in Chemistry: Harvard University, 2012<\/p>\n

<\/i>tkempa@jhu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

CV<\/a><\/p>\n

Bio:<\/strong> Thomas J. Kempa is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University and has courtesy appointments in the Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Materials Science & Engineering. After receiving a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemistry from Boston College (2004) and after being awarded a Marshall Scholarship, Tom completed two years of post-graduate study at Imperial College London. Returning to the United States, he began graduate studies under the direction of Prof. Charles Lieber at Harvard University and earned his PhD in 2012. Thereafter, Tom conducted postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. Daniel Nocera, first at MIT and then Harvard. Professor Kempa\u2019s research group develops new methods to prepare and study low-dimensional inorganic crystals from nanoparticles to few-atom thick 2D sheets whose exceptional properties render them intriguing platforms for optoelectronic, energy conversion, and quantum science studies. Professor Kempa is the recipient of numerous awards including the Moore Investigator Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship, a Toshiba Distinguished Young Investigator Award, two Hopkins Discovery Awards, and others. He has also been honored as a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and a Mercator Fellow by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He was also named an Emerging Investigator by the Journal of Materials Chemistry A<\/em> and was recently selected by Matter<\/em> as one of 35 early career PIs leading breakthroughs in materials science. In 2023, Tom was appointed a member of the Nano Letters<\/em> Editorial Advisory Board. In December 2024, Tom began an appointment as Associate Editor at npj 2D Materials and Applications<\/em>. Tom was elected the co-Vice Chair and Chair of the 2026 and 2028, respectively, GRCs on \u201c2D Electronics Beyond Graphene.\u201d He is also a founder and co-director of the Hub for Imaging and Quantum Technologies<\/em>, an institute at JHU.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Selected Awards & Honors:<\/strong><\/p>\n