Matt Eichenfield’s research focus is on the creation of novel, scalable microsystems that control and harness the interactions between photons, phonons, and electrons for classical and quantum information processing and sensing.

Dr. Eichenfield received his B.S. in 2004 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Caltech in 2007 and 2009, where his thesis on Cavity Optomechanics in Photonic and Phononic Crystals won the Demitriades Prize for best Caltech thesis in the nanosciences. He spent 18 months as the Kavli Nanoscience Institute Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech before moving on to Sandia National Labs as a Harry S. Truman Fellow in 2011. He has been at Sandia for ten years and is now a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. Since joining Sandia, he has built the MEMS-Enabled Quantum Photonics group from the ground up, with the group currently home to 18 staff, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students.