Dr. John S. Colton completed his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University, graduating with B.S. degrees in Physics and Mathematics in 1994. He received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from U.

C. Berkeley in 2000. Later, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. from 2001 to 2003, studying optically detected and controlled semiconductor spintronics. He joined the faculty at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse from 2003 to 2007, after which he returned again to Brigham Young University, as faculty. John's research throughout his career has focused on studying semiconductors through optical methods. Since 2021, he has focused on hybrid organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites.

In addition to research, John also enjoys teaching and has won several awards, including receiving a 2023 Outstanding Performance Award from BYU's Department of Physics and Astronomy. John was also appointed as a 2017 BYU Alcuin Fellow and selected as the 2006-2007 Wisconsin Teaching Fellow from UW-La Crosse. Dr. Kameron R. Hansen graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in Physics and a minor in Mathematics, where he studied quantum dots and wrote an undergraduate thesis on synthesis procedures to grow various types of quantum dots inside spherical proteins. Later, he completed his M.

S. degree in chemical physics from Columbia University and was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He worked in Dr. Xiaoyang Zhu's laboratory, researching next generation semiconductors, such as metal-halide perovskites and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Most recently, Kameron earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry under the supervision of Dr. Luisa Whittaker Brooks (Utah, Chemistry) while closely collaborating with Dr.

John S. Colton (BYU, Physics). His doctoral and postdoctoral research is multidisciplinary as he utilizes both experimental and computational approaches to study two-dimensional perovskites.