QRI Fellow Yuki Kobayashi Selected for DOE Early Career Research Program

October 23, 2026

QRI Fellow Yuki Kobayashi Selected for DOE Early Career Research Program

His project, “Recollision Physics of Exciton Quantum States in Low-Dimensional Materials,” will extend concepts from attosecond and strong-field physics to excitons, bound electron-hole quantum states in solids. His group will explore how ultrafast laser fields can probe and coherently control exciton dynamics in two-dimensional materials, advancing research at the intersection of ultrafast science, quantum materials, and attosecond physics.

Kobayashi joined U-M in 2023. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University. His research combines attosecond spectroscopy, strong-field physics, and quantum materials to observe and control electronic and quasiparticle dynamics on their natural time scales.

The DOE selected 67 early-career scientists from institutions across the United States. Awards to university researchers are approximately $875,000 over five years.

Yuki Kobayashi, assistant professor of chemistry and fellow of the University of Michigan Quantum Research Institute, has been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s 2026 Early Career Research Program.

His project, “Recollision Physics of Exciton Quantum States in Low-Dimensional Materials,” will extend concepts from attosecond and strong-field physics to excitons, bound electron-hole quantum states in solids. His group will explore how ultrafast laser fields can probe and coherently control exciton dynamics in two-dimensional materials, advancing research at the intersection of ultrafast science, quantum materials, and attosecond physics.

Kobayashi joined U-M in 2023. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University. His research combines attosecond spectroscopy, strong-field physics, and quantum materials to observe and control electronic and quasiparticle dynamics on their natural time scales.

The DOE selected 67 early-career scientists from institutions across the United States. Awards to university researchers are approximately $875,000 over five years.

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His project, “Recollision Physics of Exciton Quantum States in Low-Dimensional Materials,” will extend concepts from attosecond and strong-field physics to excitons, bound electron-hole quantum states in solids. His group will explore how ultrafast laser fields can probe and coherently control exciton dynamics in two-dimensional materials, advancing research at the intersection of ultrafast science, quantum materials, and attosecond physics.

Kobayashi joined U-M in 2023. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University. His research combines attosecond spectroscopy, strong-field physics, and quantum materials to observe and control electronic and quasiparticle dynamics on their natural time scales.

The DOE selected 67 early-career scientists from institutions across the United States. Awards to university researchers are approximately $875,000 over five years.

Yuki Kobayashi, assistant professor of chemistry and fellow of the University of Michigan Quantum Research Institute, has been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s 2026 Early Career Research Program.

His project, “Recollision Physics of Exciton Quantum States in Low-Dimensional Materials,” will extend concepts from attosecond and strong-field physics to excitons, bound electron-hole quantum states in solids. His group will explore how ultrafast laser fields can probe and coherently control exciton dynamics in two-dimensional materials, advancing research at the intersection of ultrafast science, quantum materials, and attosecond physics.

Kobayashi joined U-M in 2023. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University. His research combines attosecond spectroscopy, strong-field physics, and quantum materials to observe and control electronic and quasiparticle dynamics on their natural time scales.

The DOE selected 67 early-career scientists from institutions across the United States. Awards to university researchers are approximately $875,000 over five years.