Matthew Grayson

Matthew Grayson is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, where he joined in 2007, became an associate professor in 2012, and was promoted to full professor in 2018. His research focuses on the design, fabrication, and characterization of electronic devices and materials, with applications in quantum information processing and cryogenic thermoelectrics.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton University, where he studied under Prof. Daniel Tsui on tunnel spectroscopy of fractional quantum Hall effect edges
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame
• Postdoctoral research at University of Maryland studying infrared Hall angle of cuprate superconducting films
• Research Associate at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (7 years) with a Humboldt Fellowship, leading his own research group at the Walter Schottky Institut
• Research Associate at Max-Planck-Institut for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany

Professor Grayson specializes in low-dimensional electron systems including quantum wells, one-dimensional wires, and quantum Hall effect systems. His research spans multiple areas of condensed matter physics and materials science, with recent work focusing on thermoelectric materials, amorphous systems, and resistive tomographic imaging. He has pioneered transverse thermoelectrics for integrated thermal management and has advanced understanding of anomalous diffusion in amorphous materials. His laboratory features measurement capabilities from 15 mK to 400 K and magnetic fields up to 17 T.

His recent publications demonstrate expertise across quantum materials, thermoelectrics, and imaging technologies, with a strong emphasis on both fundamental physics and practical applications. Grayson's work bridges theoretical concepts with experimental realization, particularly in the areas of quantum transport and novel electronic materials.

Scientific Awards:

• NSF CAREER Award 2008: "Bose-Einstein Condensation Using Different Flavors of Electrons"
• Teacher of the Year 2008, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Professor Grayson leads the Quantum Interactions and Control Group at Northwestern, where they engineer semiconductor nanosystems to control and study quantum interactions. His research has applications in quantum information processing and cryogenic thermoelectrics. The group investigates systems including electron valleys, hole spins, cryo-thermoelectrics, and quantum Hall effect phenomena.