Carlos A. Rios Ocampo joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and IREAP as an assistant professor in August 2021 after completing his postdoc at MIT with Prof. JJ Hu. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Oxford in 2017 under Prof. Harish Bhaskaran's supervision, his M.S. degree in optics and photonics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and his B.S. in physics from the University of Antioquia, Colombia in 2010.