Kenneth Burch

Kenneth Burch is a Professor and Chair of the Boston College Physics Department, running the Laboratory for Assembly and Spectroscopy of Emergence (LASE). He has made seminal contributions to developing novel techniques to understand and exploit quantum materials. This includes discovering the Axial Higgs Mode in a Charge Density Wave, the colossal bulk photovoltaic effect in a Weyl semimetal, modulation doping in 2D materials, fractional spin excitations in RuCl3, and developed cutting-edge graphene biosensors. His group created the cleanroom in a glovebox where all fabrication and heterostructure preparation is performed. Prof. Burch is an APS fellow, received the Lee-Asheroff-Riuchardson Prize, and the APS GMAG best dissertation award. The work also resulted in over 100 publications in high-impact journals, including Nature, Advanced Materials, Nature Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Physical Review X, multiple patents, and has been supported by NIH, NSF, DOE, ONR, AFOSR, ARO, BARDA, GRIP molecular and GINER Inc.