Zachary Schultz Ph.D.

Zachary D. Schultz, Ph.D., is an associate professor at The Ohio State University. Prof. Schultz earned his B.S. degree from the Ohio State University in 2000 and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. Upon completing his Ph.D., he was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA) followed by a research fellow appointment at the National Institutes of Health. He began his independent career as an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame in 2009 and was promoted with tenure to associate professor in 2015. In January of 2018, Prof. Schultz moved his research program to Ohio State.  Prof. Schultz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and awarded the Craver Award for applied vibrational spectroscopy from the Coblentz Society in 2021. His research investigates interactions between light and nanomaterials for chemical imaging and trace detection.