Juanita Kurtin

Juanita Kurtin is a Director of Materials Research for OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, located in Portland, Oregon, where she works on nanomaterials for solid state lighting and related applications. Prior to OSRAM, Juanita was the CTO and co-founder of Pacific Light Technologies, a start-up company delivering high quality nanomaterials to LED manufacturers in order to increase LED brightness and color quality. She has a background in the research of nanomaterials for various device applications, including transistors, solar cells, and light emitting diodes.

Dr. Kurtin obtained her BS degree in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, studying with quantum dot pioneer Dr. Paul Alivisatos