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Kyle Seyler

Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences
Kyle Seyler headshot

Office: Meinel 521

Mailing Address:
Wyant College of Optical Sciences
The University of Arizona
1630 E. University Blvd.
P.O. Box 210094
Tucson, AZ 85721-0094

Employment

  • Assistant Professor: The University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, 2023 - present
  • Postdoctoral Scholar: California Institute of Technology, 2018 - 2023

Awards and Honors

  • Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2025
  • Early Career Research Program Award, U.S. Department of Energy, 2024
  • Quantum Creators Prize, Chicago Quantum Exchange, 2022
  • Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, Caltech Physics, 2018–2021
  • Miller Scholarship Award, University of Washington Physics, 2015

Specific Research Interests

  • Ultrafast optical control of quantum materials
  • Light-induced quantum phases
  • Moiré materials and van der Waals heterostructures
  • 2D magnets and spin dynamics
  • Ultrafast and nonlinear optical spectroscopy
     

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Washington, 2018
  • B.S., Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2013