Jeremy Munday received his PhD in Physics from Harvard in 2008, and his BS in Physics and Astronomy from Middle Tennessee State University in 2003. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech before moving to the University of Maryland In 2011 as an Assistant Professor. He has received a number of awards Including the NASA Early Career Faculty Award in 2012.

His lab’s current research endeavors range from photovoltaics, near field optics, photonics, and plasmonics for energy to nanoscale forces (e.g. the Casimir Force) for actuating micro- and nano-mechanical devices.

Prof. Munday is currently teaching courses on Solar Energy Conversion and on Electricity and Magnetism, and he looks forward to future courses on a variety of topics. He is also interested in music, and in his free time recently designed and built a hybrid electric resonator guitar.