Dr. Eric Borguet is the Hazel Tomlinson Professor of Chemistry at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He was born and spent his formative years in Dublin, Ireland. He attended college in France at the Université de Paris-Sud (XI-Orsay) where he studied chemistry and physics. He traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the USA and obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, under the mentorship of Professor Hai-Lung Dai, where he studied adsorption and intermolecular interaction on stepped metal surfaces. His post-doctoral training was completed at Columbia University in the group of Professor Kenneth Eisenthal, using nonlinear optics to investigate spectroscopy and ultrafast dynamics at liquid interfaces.
Current Research themes:
Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Processes at Interfaces
Development of Ultrafast Optical Parametric Amplifiers
Electrical Conductivity and Switching in Single Molecules
Molecular Interactions and Catalysis with Nanoporous Materials (MOFs,COFs, SWNTs)
Nanomaterial Synthesis and Characterization
Nanoscale Dynamics at Interfaces
Surface Mediated Sensors
Plasmonics
Honors and Awards:
Inaugural Hazel Tomlinson Professor of Chemistry 2023-present
Morino Lectureship, Japan 2019-2020
Honorary Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India 2019-2020
Fullbright Specialist Roster, 2018-2023
Visiting Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France 2013
Temple CST Dean’s Distinguished Excellence in Mentoring Award, 2012
Visiting Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan 2012
American Physical Society Fellow, 2010
American Chemical Society, Philadelphia Section Award, 2009
U.S. Young Observer to 2007 IUPAC General Assembly and Congress, 2007
Visiting Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2007-2008 Visiting Professor, Université de Bordeaux, France 1999 NSF- CAREER Award, 1998-2002
Department of Chemistry
130 Beury Hall
Temple University
1901 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Office: 1 (215) 204-9696, Room 252
eborguet@temple.edu