Tony F. Heinz

Tony F. Heinz is a Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science at Stanford University and the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He received his undergraduate education at Stanford (BS, Physics, 1978) and his graduate training at UC Berkeley (PhD, Physics, 1982). His was a research staff member at the IBM Watson Research Center (1983–1995) and a Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at Columbia University (1995–2014). He served as OSA President in 2012. He is an Optica Fellow and recipient of the 2020 William F. Meggers Award.

Heinz has developed a wide range of spectroscopic techniques to examine the properties and dynamics of nanoscale systems. These methods include interface sensitive nonlinear spectroscopy and time-resolved approaches, such as terahertz time-domain techniques. The measurement techniques have been applied to elucidate the electronic, optical, and chemical properties of 0-, 1-, and 2-dimensional materials and interfaces. The research would not have been possible without the insight and hard work of more than 70 graduate students and postdocs over the years.