Melissa Li

Graduate Student



Melissa is a PhD student in Applied Physics and joined the Atwater group in July 2019. She graduated from MIT in 2017 with a double major in Physics and Electrical Engineering and received a M.Eng in Electrical Engineering. For her M.Eng, she worked under Prof. Vladimir Bulovic on quantum dot LEDs. Aside from physics, she enjoys dancing, painting, baking, and board games.

Available Publications


Refractive Index Modulation in Monolayer Molybdenum Diselenide

Melissa Li, Souvik Biswas, Claudio U. Hail, and Harry A. Atwater
ACS Nano Letters (2021) - 2D Materials