Nicholas Rivera Contact [email protected] Information Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA PhD Candidate in Physics 2016-present • Doctoral Supervisor: Prof. Marin Soljaˇci´c • MIT School of Science Fellow 2020-2021 • DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow 2016-2020 Bachelor of Science in Physics June 2016 Accepted 22. Goncalves, PAD., Christensen T., Rivera, N., Jauho A. P., Mortensen N. A., and Soljaˇci´c. Publications M. \Plasmon-Emitter Interactions at the nanoscale." Nature Communications (2020). (* denotes equal 21. Sloan, J.*, Rivera, N.*, Joannopoulos J.D., Kaminer I., and Soljaˇci´cM. \Controlling spins contribution) with surface magnon polaritons." Physical Review B (2019). 20. Rivera N., Wong L. J., Joannopoulos J.D., Soljaˇci´c,M., and Kaminer, I. \Light emission based on nanophotonic vacuum forces". Nature Physics (2019). 19. Dangovski R.,, Rivera, N., Soljaˇci´c, M., and Kaminer, I.\Shaping long-lived electron wavepackets for customizable optical spectra." Optica (2019). 18. Dai, S., Stehle Y., Rivera, N., Fang, W., Tay. R., Ciccarino C., Ma, Q., Rodan-Legrain, D., Jarillo-Herrero, P., Fogler, M., Teo, EHT., Kong, J., Narang. P., and Basov, DN. \Phonon polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride at the atomic-scale limit." Advanced Materials (2019). 17. Rivera N., Flick J., and Narang P. \Variational theory of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics." Physical Review Letters (2019). 16. Rivera N., Christensen T., and Narang P. \Phonon polaritonics in two-dimensional materials'. Nano Letters (2019). 15. Rivera N., Wong L. J., Soljaˇci´c,M., and Kaminer, I. \Ultrafast multiharmonic plasmon generation by optically dressed electrons'. Physical Review Letters (2019). 14. Roques-Carmes, C., Rivera, N., Joannopoulos J.D., Soljaˇci´c,M., and Kaminer, I. \Nonperturbative quantum electrodynamics in the Cherenkov effect”. Physical Review X (2018). 13. Rosolen G., Wong, L. J. Rivera, N., Maes B., Soljaˇci´c,M., and Kaminer, I. \Meta-surface based multi-harmonic light source". Light: Science & Applications (2018). 12. (Review Article) Flick, J., Rivera, N., and Narang, P. \Strong light-matter coupling in quantum chemistry and quantum photonics." Nanophotonics (2018). 11. Machado, F.*, Rivera, N.*, Buljan, H., Soljaˇci´c,M., and Kaminer, I. \Shaping polaritons to reshape selection rules". ACS Photonics (2018). 10. Kurman Y., Rivera, N., Christensen, T., Tsesses, S., Joannopoulos J.D., Soljaˇci´cM, Orenstein M., and Kaminer I. \Control over semiconductor emitter frequency with polariton momenta." Nature Photonics (2018). 9. Lopez, JJ., Ambrosio, A., Dai., S., Huynh, C., Bell, DC., Lin, X., Rivera, N., Huang, S., Ma, Q., Eyhusen, S., Kaminer I., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Kong, J., Basov, DN., Jarillo-Herrero, P., Soljaˇci´c,M. Large photothermal effect in sub-40 nm hBN nanostructures patterned via high-resolution ion beam. Small (2018). 8. Sloan J., Rivera, N., Soljaˇci´cM, and Kaminer I. \Tunable UV emitters through graphene plasmonics." Nano Letters (2018). 1 of 3 7. Rivera, N., Rosolen G, Joannopoulos J.D., Kaminer, I., and Soljaˇci´c,M. "Extreme light- matter interactions with phonon-polaritons in the mid-IR: making two-photon processes dominate one-photon processes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017). 6. Papadakis G.T, Narang P., Sundararaman R. , Rivera, N., Buljan H., Engheta N., and Soljaˇci´cM.\Ultra-light A-scale˚ Optimal Optical Reflectors.” ACS Photonics (2017) 5. Chang C.H., Rivera, N., Joannopoulos J.D., Soljaˇci´cM., and Kaminer I.\Designer atoms through resonant lamb shifts in graphene." ACS Photonics: Special Issue on 2D Nanophotonics. (2017) 4. Lin, X., Yang, Y., Rivera, N., Lopez, J. J., Shen, Y., Kaminer, I., Chen, H., Zhang B., Joannopoulos, J.D., and Soljaˇci´c,M. \All-angle negative refraction of highly squeezed plasmon and phonon polaritons in graphene boron nitride heterostructures." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017). 3. Lin, X. Rivera, N., Lopez, J.J., Kaminer, I., Chen, H., and Soljaˇci´c,M. \Tailoring the energy distribution and loss of 2D plasmons." New Journal of Physics (2016). 2. Rivera, N., Hsu, C.W., Zhen, B., Buljan, H., Joannopoulos J.D., and Soljaˇci´c,M. \Controlling directionality and dimensionality of radiation through separable bound states in the continuum." Scientific Reports (2016). 1. Rivera, N.*, Kaminer, I.*, Zhen B., Joannopoulos, J.D. and Soljaˇci´cM. \Shrinking light to allow forbidden transitions on the atomic scale." Science (2016). Invited Talks 11. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, San Jose, CA. "Toward nanophotonic free-electron and Seminars lasers." May 2020. (Upgraded from contributed talk.) 10. MTL Graphene and 2D Materials Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA. "Polaritonic probes of nonlocal and nonlinear electrodynamics." Nov 2018. 9. Quantum Scanning Probe Microscopy of 2D Materials. Harvard, Cambridge, MA. "Light- matter interactions in polar dielectrics." Oct 2018. 8. Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL. "Quantum optics at the surface of a polaritonic medium." Aug 2018. 7. Gordon Research Seminar in Plasmonics and Nanophotonics. Newry, ME. "Towards polariton- enabled spectroscopy and light sources." Jul 2018. 6. Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics Seminar, Harvard, Cambridge, MA. "QED at the surface of a polaritonic medium." Apr 2018. 5. Technion Optics Seminar, Haifa, Israel. "QED at the surface of a polaritonic medium." Mar 2018. 4. MTL Graphene and 2D Materials Conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA."Light-matter interactions in extreme refractive index 2D nanophotonics." Oct 2017. 3. March Meeting (APS)., New Orleans, LA. "Making the forbidden allowed: new approaches to light emission." Mar 2017. (Award talk.) 2. Nanometa (EPS). Seefeld, Austria. "Turning forbidden transitions into dominant transitions: towards efficient sources of entangled light". Jan 2017. (Upgraded from contributed talk.) 1. Workshop on Light-Matter Interaction and Excited State Dynamics (Northrop Grumman)., Redondo Beach, CA. "Making the forbidden allowed: polariton-based approaches to light emission and absorption." Oct 2016. 2 of 3 Patents 2. Yang Y., Roques-Carmes C., Massuda M., Yang, Y., Kooi, S., Rivera, N., Joannopoulos, J.D., Berggren K., and Soljaˇci´cM. “Efficient Smith-Purcell Radiation Sources and Enhancement Methods". U.S. Patent 10505334. 1. Rivera, N., Kaminer, I., Zhen B., Joannopoulos, J.D. and Soljaˇci´cM. \Plasmons for spectroscopic, light emission, and broadband light generation applications". U.S. Patent 10352856. Honors and 1. LeRoy Apker award (APS) Oct 2016 Awards 2. Tingye Li Innovation prize finalist (OSA) Jun 2016 3. Order of the Lepton award (MIT) Jun 2016 4. Joel Matthew Orloff award for outstanding service (MIT) Jun 2016 5. Joel Matthew Orloff award for outstanding research (MIT) Jun 2016 6. DOE Computational Science graduate fellowship [4 yrs] Apr 2016 7. NSF Graduate Research fellowship (NSF) [3 yrs] Mar 2016 8. MIT School of Science fellowship (MIT) [3 yrs] Mar 2016 9. Hertz Foundation fellowship finalist Jan 2016 10. Best poster in physics at National Collegiate Research Conference Jan 2015 Referee Nature Communications, Nature Communications Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical activity Review (A, B, E), Physical Review Research, ACS Nano, ACS Photonics, Optica, Optics Letters, Journal of Optics, Physics Letters A. 3 of 3.