Richard Royal Lunt
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
rlunt msu.edu
Richard R. Lunt joined the faculty of Michigan State University in August 2011 in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Physics Departments. He earned his B.Ch.E. in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in 2004, graduating with honors for his work on phase equilibria in superconducting-related perovskites under Douglas J. Buttrey. He received his doctorate degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University in June 2010 while working as a researcher with Stephen Forrest at the University of Michigan (2006-2010) and Jay B. Benziger at Princeton. Just prior to arriving at MSU he worked as a postdoctoral associate with Vladimir Bulovic (2010-2011) in the organic and nanostructured lab at MIT. He is the inventor of over 12 pending U.S. patents, the majority of which have been licensed. He has worked extensively in the field of organic and molecular crystalline growth, and excitonic electronics for nearly a decade. He is a co-founder of Ubiquitous Energy Inc. that is commercializing a range of technologies that enable seamless deployment of light-harvesting functionality in the form of products and surfaces.