Dr. Thomay is an experimental physicist specializing in solid state quantum light emitters, ultrafast dynamics of excitonic systems, and fiber integration of quantum detectors and sources.
Currently an assistant professor in the physics department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He started to study physics in Konstanz, Germany, with stops for his Bachelor’s degree at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil under the supervision of Dr. Elisa Baggio-Saitovitch and the University of Vienna, Austria. After obtaining his master’s degree in Konstanz he also did his PhD there where he focused on ultrafast spectroscopy and nanofabrication of nanoscale semiconductors and photonic structures. He subsequently won a postdoctoral fellowship grant to study at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, USA where he studied the quantum optical properties of III-VI Quantum Dots and their applications in Quantum Communication. After being a research scientist in the Electrical Engineering Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he became an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department.
He is an attendant of the 2nd MULTIPHOTONICS meeting.