Q1.

FACULTY SURVEY
Dear Colleague,

Early in the new year, the Department Head, Associate Head, and Division Head review each faculty
member. The information from this review is used in salary recommendations for the Dean of Science, the
President’s Report, the Physics Journal (Physics@MIT), and other places.

This online form provides you an opportunity to provide us with information for this process. The information
you provide is shared with your Division Head. Please take a few minutes to fill out this form.

One remark: Question 8, asks for committee service. We, of course, know who is on departmental
committees, but might not know about other important committees such as laboratory or center committees,
national or international committees or panels. Providing this information will help us and MIT make better
decisions regarding committee assignments at all levels.

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Q2. PERSONAL QUESTIONS

Q3. First Name

Nuh

Q4. Last Name

Gedik
Q5. Email

[email protected]

Q6. Primary Division Affiliation

Astrophysics

Atomic, Biophysics, Condensed Matter, and Plasma Physics

Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics

Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics

Q9.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Q10. In a brief paragraph, please summarize your most important research accomplishment for the past
year. Please make it simple, in a style like that of Scientific American. Try to keep it under 300 words.

Strong interactions between different degrees of freedom lead to exotic phases of matter with complex order parameters and emergent collective
excitations. Conventional techniques, such as scattering and transport, probe the amplitudes of these excitations, but they are typically insensitive to
phase. Therefore, novel methods with phase sensitivity are required to understand ground states with phase modulations and interactions that couple to
the phase of collective modes. By performing phase-resolved coherent phonon spectroscopy (CPS), we revealed a hidden spin–lattice coupling in a vdW
antiferromagnet FePS3 that eluded other phase-insensitive conventional probes, such as Raman and X-ray scattering (PNAS 120, e2208968120
(2023)). With comparative analysis and analytical calculations, we directly showed that the magnetic order in FePS3 selectively couples to the trigonal
distortions through partially filled t2g orbitals. This magnetoelastic coupling is linear in magnetic order and lattice parameters, rendering these distortions
inaccessible to inelastic scattering techniques. Our results not only capture the elusive spin–lattice coupling in FePS3 but also establish phase-resolved
CPS as a tool to investigate hidden interactions. We also visualized this strong spin-lattice coupling by detecting demagnetization-driven interlayer shear
with ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy (Nature 620, 988 (2023).

Q11. Please summarize your contributions to the teaching program for the past year. Please let us know of
any new ideas or innovations you have used or developed.

I was the co-administrator of 8.02. We continued to further improve the lectures by using the format we developed after Covid. Our course now
incorporates pre-class learning sequences that play the role of lectures. These combined with in class brief summary and problem solving helps students
learn the material better.

Q12. Please tell us about any accomplishments in the last year that are important to you. Be sure to include
any awards or honors you have received. Please also tell us of any awards those in your group have
received.

I was selected as the Donner Professor of Science at MIT. Alumni of my group received prestigious appointments and awards. On of my previous
graduate students (Alfred Zong) was hired as an assistant professor of Physics at Stanford. Several other alumni received prestigious awards such as
DOE Early Career award (James McIver, assistant professor at Columbia) and AFOSR YIP and the Keck Foundation Award (Edoardo Baldini, assistant
professor at UT Austin)

Q13. Please tell us your major goals for upcoming research, especially any that could benefit from support,
advocacy, or resources.
 We are continuing our effort to build a momentum microscope at MIT. Using the generous support we received from the Physics department via
philanthropic donation , we were able to raise significant equipment funds from DOE for this project ($2.3M in total). We have already ordered the main
chamber and teh detector for this experiment and currently working on the design of the beamline. We are also trying to raise funds for the personnel
budget for this effort.

Q14. Please tell us if you have future projects or idea for teaching, especially any that could benefit from
support, advocacy, or resources.

We would like to think about if artificial intelligence based methods can be used to improve teaching 8.02. We are also continuously evaluating content
that we are covering in this course.

Q15. STUDENT SUPERVISION

Q16. Please list by name the graduate students and UROP/senior thesis students you have supervised. As
appropriate, indicate where they have gone after graduation. Also list any especially noteworthy
accomplishments of your advisees (e.g. Marshall Scholarship).

Emre Ergecen (graduated in 2023), Batyr Ilyas, Dongsung Choi, Bryan Fichera, Yifan Su, Clifford
Graduate Students Allington, Kyoung Hun Oh, Tianchuang (Michael) Luo, Zongqi Shen, Haoyu Xia, Tommy Tai, Jack
Maier

Rosemary Wynnychenko (Wellesley College)

Undergraduate Students

Q17. Please briefly describe how you provide career and professional guidance to those in your group
(students, faculty and post docs). Please also list any informal mentoring and outreach.

I have regular meetings with every member of my group including students and postdocs. Every semester we review our broad career goals and revise
our plan as needed. I give quite a bit of freedom to my postdoctoral scholars and advancd graduate students, this really helps with their professional
development. I continue to provide mentorship support to the alumni of my group after they become professors as needed. Beyond my group members,
junior faculty working in my field in other universities sometimes reach out to me for advice.

Q18. Please list by name any undergraduate and graduate academic advisees who were formally assigned to
you.

Undergraduate academic advisees Sebastian Rotella

Allington, Clifford John; Kim, Dasol, ; Occhialini, Connor A.; Rao, Skandaprasad Valliyur; Zheng,
Graduate academic advisees Zhiren; Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro; Jess Ip

Q19. SERVICE ON COMMITTEES/PANELS

Q20. Physics faculty serve on many committees and we are making a comprehensive list so we can fairly
distribute assignments in the department. Please list all committees on which you are currently serving at the
Institute, lab, department, and division level. Please also list committee or other service outside MIT.
 N/A
Institute

Pappalardo Committee and Faculty search committee

Departmental

N/A
Division

N/A
Lab/Center

N/A
National

N/A
International

Q21. Please tell us of any specific interest you have for future service to the Department, School of Science,
or the Institute.

N/A

Q22. POSTDOC SUPERVISION

Q23. Please list the postdoctoral associates or fellows working with you, the unit in which they are appointed
(MKI, LNS, etc), the funding source (MIT funds, research funds or external fellowships), and whether or not
you have held an annual review with your postdoc/fellow this year [using, for example, the template
Postdoctoral Performance Review Recommendations (PDF)].

Funding Source (MIT,

Research, or External Annual Review Meeting
Postdoc Full Name Appointment Unit Fellowships) (Y/N)

1 Alexander von Hoegen Physics Fellowship Y

2 Honglie Ning MRL Research Y

Q24. GRANTS
Q25. Please list grants applied for in the last year, received in the last year, and those continuing into the last
year.

Development of Time-Resolved Momentum Microscope, DOE, $1,15M Ultrafast Electronic and

Structural Dynamics in Quantum Materials, DOE, $1,35M Ultrafast Control of Emerging Electronic
Grants applied for in last year Phenomena in 2D Quantum Materials, DOE, $886K MURI proposal: High Temperature, Scalable
Flat Bands, AFSOR, $450K,

Development of Time-Resolved Momentum Microscope, DOE, $1,15M Ultrafast Electronic and

Structural Dynamics in Quantum Materials, DOE, $1,35M Ultrafast Control of Emerging Electronic
Grants received in last year Phenomena in 2D Quantum Materials, DOE, $886K MURI proposal: High Temperature, Scalable
Flat Bands, AFSOR, $450K,

1. Project/Proposal Title: Natural and Synthetic Non-Hermitian Quantum Materials Proposal/Award

Number (if available): 032962-00004 Source of Support: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Primary Place of Performance: MIT Project/Proposal Support Start Date (if available): 03/2022
Project/Proposal Support End Date (if available): 02/2025 Total Award Amount (including Indirect
Costs): $705,000 2. Project/Proposal Title: Anomalous Polar Textures in Quasi-1D Chalcogenides
and Heterostructures Proposal/Award Number (if available): SCON-00002258 Source of Support:
University of Southern California (ARO Prime Sponsor) Primary Place of Performance: MIT
Project/Proposal Support Start Date (if available): 06/2021 Project/Proposal Support End Date (if
available): 10/2024 Total Award Amount (including Indirect Costs): $589,000 3. Project/Proposal
Title: Ultrafast Control of Emerging Electronic Phenomena in 2D Quantum Materials
Proposal/Award Number (if available): Source of Support: University of Washington (DOE Prime
Sponsor) Primary Place of Performance: MIT Project/Proposal Support Start Date (if available):
08/2023 Project/Proposal Support End Date (if available): 08/2026 Total Award Amount (including
Indirect Costs): $886K 4. Project/Proposal Title: Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics in
Quantum Materials Proposal/Award Number (if available): DE-FG02-08ER46521 Source of
Support: DOE Primary Place of Performance: MIT Project/Proposal Support Start Date (if
available): 08/2023 Project/Proposal Support End Date (if available): 08/2026 Total Award Amount
(including Indirect Costs): $1,350,000 5. Project/Proposal Title: Quantum Control of Material
Properties with Light Proposal/Award Number (if available): 9459 Source of Support: Gordon &
Betty Moore Foundation Primary Place of Performance: MIT Project/Proposal Support Start Date
Continuing grants (if available): 05/2020 Project/Proposal Support End Date (if available): 05/2025 Total Award
Amount (including Indirect Costs): $1,600,000 6. Project/Proposal Title: Center for Integrated
Quantum Materials (Years 1 through 9) Proposal/Award Number (if available): 123826-5056263
Source of Support: Harvard University (NSF Prime Sponsor) Primary Place of Performance: MIT
Project/Proposal Support Start Date (if available): 10/2013 Project/Proposal Support End Date (if
available): 03/2024 Total Award Amount (including Indirect Costs): $561,389 7. Project/Proposal
Title: Development of Time-Resolved Momentum Microscope Proposal/Award Number (if
available): Source of Support: DOE Primary Place of Performance: MIT Project/Proposal Support
Start Date (if available): 08/2023 Project/Proposal Support End Date (if available): 08/2026 Total
Award Amount (including Indirect Costs): $1,150,000 8. Project/Proposal Title: Development of
Time-Resolved Momentum Microscope Proposal/Award Number (if available): Source of Support:
DOE Primary Place of Performance: MIT Project/Proposal Support Start Date (if available):
08/2023 Project/Proposal Support End Date (if available): 08/2026 Total Award Amount (including
Indirect Costs): $1,150,000 9. Time-Resolved Probing of Unconventional Orders in Novel Kagome
Metals Proposal/Award Number (if available): Source of Support: NSF Primary Place of
Performance: MIT Project/Proposal Support Start Date (if available): 02/2023 Project/Proposal
Support End Date (if available): 02/2027 Total Award Amount (including Indirect Costs): $720,000
10. High Temperature, Scalable Flat Bands, AFSOR, $450K, Proposal/Award Number (if
available): Source of Support: AFSOR Primary Place of Performance: MIT Project/Proposal
Support Start Date (if available): 01/2022 Project/Proposal Support End Date (if available):
08/2025 Total Award Amount (including Indirect Costs): $450,000

Q26. PAPERS & TALKS

Q27. Please list refereed papers, including authors and titles, that were (a) published in the last year and (b)
submitted in the last year.
 Delamination-assisted ultrafast wrinkle formation in a freestanding film” Yifan Su, Alfred Zong,
Anshul Kogar, Di Lu, Seung Sae Hong, Byron Freelon, Timm Rohwer, Harold Y. Hwang, Nuh
Gedik, Nano Lett. 23, 10772–10778 (2023)(pdf) 2. “Spin-mediated shear oscillators in a van der
Waals antiferromagnet” Alfred Zong*, Qi Zhang*, Faran Zhou*, Yifan Su, Kyle Hwangbo, Xiaozhe
Shen, Qianni Jiang, Haihua Liu, Thomas E. Gage, Donald A. Walko, Michael E. Kozina, Duan
Luo, Alexander H. Reid, Jie Yang, Suji Park, Saul H. Lapidus, Jiun-Haw Chu, Ilke Arslan, Xijie
Wang, Di Xiao, Xiaodong Xu, Nuh Gedik, Haidan Wen, Nature 620, 988 (2023)(pdf) 3. “Reply to:
Dilemma in optical identification of single-layer multiferroics” Qian Song, Connor A. Occhialini,
Emre Ergecen, Batyr Ilyas, Danila Amoroso, Paolo Barone, Jesse Kapeghian, Kenji Watanabe,
Takashi Taniguchi, Antia S. Botana, Silvia Picozzi, Nuh Gedik, Riccardo Comin Nature 619, E44-
E46 (2023)(pdf) 4. “Direct Observation of Collective Modes of the Carge Density Wave in the
Kagome Metal CsV3Sb5” Doron Azoury, Alexander von Hoegen, Yifan Su, Kyoung Hun Oh,
Published papers
Tobias Holder, Hengxin Tan, Brenden R. Ortiz, Andrea Capa Salinas, Stephen D. Wilson, Binghai
Yan, Nuh Gedik, PNAS 120, e2308588120 (2023)(pdf) 5. “Design and construction of a compact,
high-repetition-rate ultrafast electron diffraction instrument” Byron Freelon, Timm Rohwer, Alfred
Zong, Anshul Kogar, Hengyun Zhou, Liang Jie Wong, Emre Ergeçen, Nuh Gedik, Rev Sci Instrum
94, 053305 (2023)(pdf) 6. “The spontaneous symmetry breaking in Ta2NiSe5 is structural in
nature” Edoardo Baldini, Alfred Zong, Dongsung Choi, Changmin Lee, Marios H. Michael, Lukas
Windgaetter, Igor I. Mazin, Simone Latini, Doron Azoury, Baiqing Lv, Anshul Kogar, Yao Wang,
Yangfan Lu, Tomohiro Takayama, Hidenori Takagi, Andrew J. Millis, Angel Rubio, Eugene Demler,
Nuh Gedik, PNAS 120, e222168120 (2023) (pdf) 7. “Coherent detection of hidden spin-lattice
coupling in a van der Waals antiferromagnet” Emre Ergeçen*, Batyr Ilyas*, Junghyun Kim, Jaena
Park, Mehmet B. Yilmaz, Tianchuang Luo, Di Xiao, Satoshi Okamoto, Je-Geun Park, Nuh Gedik,
PNAS 120, e2208968120 (2023) (pdf)

1. “Light-induced insulator-metal transition in Sr2IrO4 reveals the nature of the insulating ground
state” Dongsung Choi*, Changming Yue*, Doron Azoury, Zachary Porter, Jiyu Chen, Francesco
Petocchi, Edoardo Baldini, Baiqing Lv, Masataka Mogi, Yifan Su, Stephen D. Wilson, Martin
Eckstein, Philipp Werner, Nuh Gedik, submitted (2023)(pdf) 2. “Probing charge order of monolayer
NbSe2 within a bulk crystal” Doron Azoury*, Edoardo Baldini*, Aravind Devarakonda, Jiarui Li,
Shiang Fang, Pheona Wiliams, Riccardo Comin, Joseph Checkelsky, Nuh Gedik, submitted
(2023)(pdf) 3. “Coexistence of interacting charge density waves in a layered semiconductor”
Baiqing Lv , Alfred Zong , Dong Wu , Zhengwei Nie , Yifan Su , Dongsung Choi , Batyr Ilyas ,
Bryan Fichera , Jiarui Li , Edoardo Baldini , Masataka Mogi , Yaobo Huang , Ho Chun Po , Sheng
Meng , Yao Wang , Professor Nan-Lin Wang, Nuh Gedik, submitted (2023) 4. “Room temperature
nonvolatile optical control of polar order in a charge density wave” QM Liu,Dong Wu, TY Wu, SS
Submitted papers Han, YR Peng, ZH Yuan, YH Cheng, BH Li, TC Hu, Li Yue, SX Xu, RX Ding, Ming Lu, RS Li, SJ
Zhang, BQ Lv, Alfred Zong, YF Su, Nuh Gedik, ZP Yin, Tao Dong, NL Wang, submitted (2023) 5.
“Terahertz field-induced metastable magnetization near criticality in FePS3” Batyr Ilyas ,
Tianchuang Luo , Alexander von Hoegen , Emil Viñas Boström , Zhuquan Zhang , Jaena Park ,
Junghyun Kim , Je-Geun Park , Keith Nelson , Angel Rubio, Nuh Gedik, submitted (2023) 6.
“Dynamical decoding of the competition between charge density waves in a kagome
superconductor” Honglie Ning , Kyoung Hun Oh , Yifan Su , Alexander von Hoegen , Zach Porter ,
Andrea Capa Salinas , Quynh Nguyen , Matthieu Chollet , Takahiro Sato , Vincent Esposito ,
Matthias Hoffmann , Adam White , Cynthia Melendrez , Diling Zhu , Stephen Wilson, Nuh Gedik,
submitted, (2023) 7. “Time-of-flight detection of terahertz phonon polariton” Tianchuang Luo ,
Batyr Ilyas , Alexander von Hoegen , Youjin Lee , Jaena Park , Je-Geun Park, Nuh Gedik,
submitted, (2023)

Q28. Please list any major talks given this past year as well as the total number of conference presentations,
seminars or colloquia given.

Several invited talks and colloquia, examples include: 1. “Capturing Light Induced Phase transitions with Femtosecond Movies” Plenary talk in Center for
Integrated Nanotechnologies 2023 users meeting, Santa Fe, NM, (September 19-20, 2023) 2. “Terahertz field induced metastable magnetization in a van
der Waals antiferromagnet”, Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter 2023 Summer Workshop, Seattle, WA (August 5-7, 2023) 3. “Time, Energy and
Momentum Resolved Probing of Charge Order Dynamics in A Kagome Metal”, X. International symposium “Ultrafast Dynamics &Ultrafast Bandgap
Photonics”, Crete, Greece (June 4-10, 2023)

Q29. EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS & SERVICE

Q30. Please list contributions to the Educational Commons not already listed (freshman admissions and
orientation, freshman advising, Institute Committees, commencement, Housemasters and House Fellows)
 Lab tour for Freshman Orientation Program

Q31. Please list any efforts in educational outreach and to broadening participation in physics and related
fields, at MIT or beyond.

We hosted lab visits from high school students.

Q32. Please list any other service outside MIT that you would like us to know about.

N/A

Q33. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Q34. Please list any professional development or training activities you participated in (e.g., summer courses,
workshops, leadership training, coaching, etc.)

N/A

Q35. DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION ACTIVITIES

Q36. Please tell us about any activities you have undertaken to increase the diversity (broadly interpreted) of
the Physics Department or MIT. This may include outreach, informal advising, participation in a reading
group, or other things.

We are working towards making the scientific community a more welcoming place for members of underrepresented minorities. In particular, for the past
three years, we implemented a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) journal club in our group. We periodically devote one of our weekly group meetings
(once in about every 6 weeks) to discussing topics such as exclusionary practices in academia, racism and gender bias. In these meetings, couple
members of my group volunteer to prepare educational material on these issues and lead the interactive discussion. Beside educating ourselves on
these issues, we also try to come up with action items that will make our group more diverse. For example, we worked on a group values statement and
posted on our webpage. It reads: ”Our lab welcomes students, postdocs, and visiting scholars regardless of identity. We strive to be an inclusive group
and we value diversity in backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. As a group, we are committed to reflecting on the issues of diversity, equity, and
inclusion (DEI), especially their impact on our group and the scientific community as a whole.”

Q37.
In particular, please describe any activities toward upholding the Physics Values and improving the climate in
the Department.

I am working on implementing these values in my group and improve the climate within my group.
Q39. OTHER

Q40. Please add any additional information that you want to share that is not captured elsewhere in this
survey. (Examples could include other contributions to the Department, School, or Institute, or community that
might otherwise go unnoticed; external obligations; family/caregiving leave; medical leave; professional leave;
or anything else deemed appropriate.)

I am grateful for the support of the department!

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