James K. Utterback, Ph.D.

@JamesKUtterback

Physical Chemist
| @CNRS researcher INSP of @Sorbonne_Univ_
| Former postdoc @UCBerkeley, PhD @CUBoulder
| Rock music recording artist
| 🇺🇲 → 🇫🇷

Paris, France w3.insp.upmc.fr/en/insp-page-p… Joined June 2020

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James K. Utterback, Ph.D. @JamesKUtterback Sep 4, 2025

I am extremely grateful to announce that I have received the ERC Starting Grant! This is a huge step and it means exciting opportunities for my group in the near future.

European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research Sep 4, 2025

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!

Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!

➡️ europa.eu/!89nG4M

🇪🇺 #HorizonEurope

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James K. Utterback, Ph.D. @JamesKUtterback Jun 13, 2025

Nanocrystals folks: Join us at nanoGe MATSUS in Valencia, Oct 20-24 2025. The theme will be Emergent Properties in Nanomaterials. The invited speaker line-up is really exciting!
- Deadline for contributed talks: June 27
- Deadline for posters: Sept 22
nanoge.org/MATSUSFall25/s…

James K. Utterback, Ph.D. @JamesKUtterback May 19, 2025

Paper #3 from the group! A close collaboration with @IIISchulzIII.

We image thermal transport down to monolayer nanocrystal superlattices. In that regime ballistic phonon transport becomes important.

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Inverted Thickness Dependence of Thermal Transport in Nanocrystal Supercrystals Down to the... Spatiotemporal thermoreflectance microscopy locally probes lateral thermal transport in ultrathin colloidal nanocrystal supercrystals. In stark contrast to typical materials, the thermal diffusivity...

James K. Utterback, Ph.D. @JamesKUtterback May 7, 2025

On the front cover of @NanoLetters.

Demonstrating how both charge carriers and heat contribute to pump-probe spectroscopy of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal films.

Read the article here: doi.org/10.1021/acs.na…

@ACSPublications #MyACSCover #Nanocrystals

James K. Utterback, Ph.D. @JamesKUtterback Apr 11, 2025

Very excited for the 2nd paper from my group to be out in @NanoLetters ! We demonstrate how both charge carriers and heat contribute to pump-probe spectroscopy of nanocrystal films. doi.org/10.1021/acs.na…

pubs.acs.org Simultaneous Electronic and Thermal Signatures in Pump–Probe Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocr... Abstract. Thermal contributions are typically ignored in optical spectroscopy of semiconductor nanomaterials. However, such considerations are important fo