Kyle Shen
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics

  • Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics,
    Physics Department, Cornell University (June 2007 - present)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physics Department,
    University of British Columbia (2005 - 2007)

  • Ph.D. in Applied Physics; Stanford University (2005)
  • B.Sc. in Physics, B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering;
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998)
Our research program is based around utilizing momentum-resolved probes to study the electronic structure of complex quantum materials, such as high-temperature superconductors and colossal magnetoresistive manganites. The main theme of our research is to understand how interactions and the interplay between different degrees of freedom (charge, lattice, spin, orbital) give rise to many of the unusual and exotic properties observed in these states of matter. Our initial focus will be in constructing a next-generation, lab-based system for angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) studies of these correlated electron systems.

In addition to our laboratory on campus, we also perform experiments at various synchrotrons around the world (SSRL, ALS, NSRRC, BESSY, CLS, HiSOR), where we employ a suite of techniques (x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), resonant soft x-ray scattering (RSXS), and ARPES), to obtain information about electron dynamics and ordering phenomena in correlated materials.