Nuh Gedik

Background and Education

Professor Gedik joined MIT Physics Department as an assistant professor in January 2008. He received his B.S. in Physics in 1998 from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey and his Ph.D in Physics in 2004 from University of California, Berkeley. After his Ph.D, he moved to Caltech where he worked as a postdoctoral scholar till January 2008. His awards include National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Department of Energy Early Career Award, Sloan fellowship, DARPA Young Faculty Award and Moore Experimental Investigator award. He was promoted to Full Professor of Physics in 2018.

Awards and Honors

• National Brown Investigator Award | 2024
• Committed to Caring honoree (MIT) | 2023-25
• American Physical Society (APS) Fellow | 2022
• "For the creation of time-resolved techniques to selectively probe dynamics of charge, spin, and lattice excitations with unprecedented time, momentum, and energy resolutions and for the observation of Floquet-Bloch states in a topological insulator material achieved with novel pump-probe methods."
• Gordon and Betty Moore EPiQS Experimental Investigator Award | 2020-25
• "In support of experimental research aimed at achieving optical control of topological properties and ordered phases in quantum materials."
• Ludwig-Genzel-Prize (Physikalisches Institut, University of Stuttgart, Germany) | 2020
• "For pioneering the field of light-matter interactions in quantum materials using advanced optical and electron spectroscopy."
• Miller Visiting Professorship (UC Berkeley) | 2019
• Gordon and Betty Moore Experimental Investigator in Quantum Materials | 2015-20
• "In support of leading-edge research to control the properties of quantum materials using light and to probe the time-dependent material states using photoemission spectroscopy and electron diffraction."
• DARPA Young Faculty Award | 2013
• Biedenharn Career Development Professorship | 2012-15
• Sloan Research Fellowship | 2012-14
• DOE Early Career Award | 2011
• NSF CAREER Award | 2009