Sebastian Fernández
@CbasFernandez21
PhD Candidate @Stanford_ee @CongreveLab | BS’19 @GeorgiaTech_ECE | DARE, IBUILD, SGF, and GEM Fellow | http://serio.stanford.edu President | 🇵🇪 |
Looking forward to MRS Fall next week! Please see my attached presentation schedule, including results related to emissive perovskites, efforts to support underrepresented students, and my faculty candidate poster. Send me a message if you would like to meet in Boston!

Excited to visit @Berkeley_EECS and share my research with the physical electronics community later this month! I will be delivering a Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar on November 22nd!

It is a tremendous honor to be named the winner of this year’s University of Washington Chemical Engineering Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar (DYSS) Series! As a trained EE, I was excited to share my research with this new ChemE community! Thank you for having me!
Congratulations, Sebastian Fernández (@CbasFernandez21), Ph.D. candidate at @Stanford University! Sebastian was named Top Speaker from this year's Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar series. Learn more about Sebastian’s work: fernandezsebastian.com @StanfordEng
The fourth iteration of the Stanford Engineering Research Introductions (SERIS) Program is now accepting applications! If you know any UG underclassmen curious about STEM research, please share to have them join us @StanfordEng for two days!

Huge thanks to #DYSS for the opportunity to visit @UWChemE ! What a fantastic department filled with great faculty, postdocs, and students alike. Thanks to all who welcomed me and came to my seminar! Looking forward to staying in touch!
TODAY! Sebastian Fernández (@CbasFernandez21), PhD Candidate from Stanford University (@Stanford, @stanford_ee), will share a talk titled: "Enabling Perovskite Semiconductors for a Brighter, Safer, and Efficient World." PAA A114 11:00a.m. -12:00p.m. tinyurl.com/Fernandez081324
Excited to be selected for the 2024 Rising Stars in Materials Science and Engineering workshop hosted by @StanfordMSE @mit_dmse @cmu_mse @IllinoisMatSE! Looking forward to connecting with both faculty and other rising stars participants!

#DYSS 2024 TODAY! Tracy Schloemer (@tracyhle), Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University (@Stanford), will be sharing a talk titled: "Harnessing Photons for Controlling Soft Matter with Upconversion." PAA A114 11:00a.m. -12:00p.m. tinyurl.com/Schloemer071624
I had the pleasure and honor to deliver an invited department seminar at @NorthwesternU MSE as part of their MSE Future Leaders Seminar Series! Thank you to all faculty members and students for joining me as well as the follow-up conversations with MSE faculty members!

For all those who think DEI hiring in academia is a significant threat.
Check out our* most recent News and Views in Nature Electronics @NaturePortfolio , where we highlight super cool multifunctional perovskite semiconductor-based displays! * @CbasFernandez21, @ManchenHu , and @dncongreve nature.com/articles/s4192…
Happy to see this in print! We strongly believe that preparing talented underrepresented students early on in their undergrad is a viable pathway to improve DEI & access in engineering academia. Please take a look!
Check out @CbasFernandez21 , Claire Anderson, Alexandria Boehm, and @dncongreve 's recent article showcasing the efforts towards increasing DEI & access to engineering through the Stanford Engineering Research Introductions Organization (SERIO). 🙌👏🫶 tinyurl.com/4sccuzvv
I've had the pleasure to work with and mentor both @nataliamrrtt and @willmichaels0 on their path towards graduate school and am excited that they are now both NSF GRFP winners! Stay tuned for their announcement on where they will conduct their PhD!
What a week!!!! Huge congratulations to Qi who passed her qualifying exams! Your "son"/loaf of bread is also very proud of you (Whiskey the corgi). Huge congratulations to @nataliamrrtt and @willmichaels0 for their NSF GRFP awards!
Congrats! Looking forward to fun adventures soon :)
Congratulations to our @OnaSegira for a successful final PhD defense and thanks to the examiners Zeger Hens @NanoUGent, David Norris @NorrisOMEL and Jillian Dempsey @jillianldempsey for the interesting questions and discussion!! Good luck for your future adventure @CongreveLab 👏🏻
Congratulations to our @OnaSegira for a successful final PhD defense and thanks to the examiners Zeger Hens @NanoUGent, David Norris @NorrisOMEL and Jillian Dempsey @jillianldempsey for the interesting questions and discussion!! Good luck for your future adventure @CongreveLab 👏🏻
NextProf Nexus apps due April 22nd! Snr-level Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, early-career scientists or researchers in Engineering interested in a career in academia are eligible. Get started on your app now! bit.ly/3suoYhS #NextProf @Cal_Engineer @gatechengineers
Excited to introduce the newest SERIS cohort to @StanfordEng later this month! The time to diversify engineering academia is now. At SERIO & SERIS, we believe we can do this by training underrepresented students early in their college careers!

3rd place Halloween pumpkin carving! Dreaded reviewer 2!!! Classic and spooky (the vomit even bubbled at one point). @pournimanaraya1 @ArynnOGallegos @CbasFernandez21 @ManchenHu @nataliamrrtt
Super excited to visit @DukeEngineering in a few weeks!!
Congrats to @cbasfernandez21 on being selected to participate in the @DukeEngineering Future Faculty of Innovation and Excellence (DEFINE) Program!!
Incredibly well deserved! Jenny is a fantastic mentor and will continue to empower the next-generation of engineers!!
#VIPGrads Congratulations to Jennifer Leestma on being awarded a fellowship for her guidance and mentorship of undergraduate researchers! She has played a pivotal role in mentoring many students who have been part of the Robotic Human Augmentation VIP team. @MEgeorgiatech
"One of the great things about light is that it’s ubiquitous," says Prof. @dncongreve. "It’s everywhere; we know how to generate it; we know how to harness it. And as we continue to develop finer and finer control over these things, light becomes an enormously powerful tool."