Biography:

Sean T. Roberts received a BS in Chemistry from the University of California Los Angeles in 2003, a PhD in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute in Technology in 2010, and worked as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California from 2010 to 2013. In 2014, Dr. Roberts started his independent career at the University of Texas at Austin where he leads a research group that develops ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to visualize the transport of charge, energy, and spin in nanoscale materials designed for applications in solar energy, 3D printing, imaging, and optoelectronics. Dr. Roberts was named a Fellow of the W. T. Doherty Professorship in Chemistry in 2025 and received the Richard Van Duyne Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 2026. In 2024, Dr. Roberts received the Partners in Progress & Prosperity Award, also from the American Chemical Society, for his work in education and he currently serves as the education and outreach faculty director for the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials, a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) based at UT Austin.