Speaker: Maxx Arguilla, Assistant Professor, University of California
Title: Through thick and thin: Chemical strategies towards unique electronic and optical landscapes in atomically precise one-dimensional solids
Bio: Maxx Q. Arguilla originates from the Philippines. He obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines Diliman, cum Laude, in 2011. After a one-year junior instructor position at UPD, he moved to the US and completed his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from The Ohio State University with Professor Joshua Goldberger in 2017. His dissertation centered on the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties and applications of new two-dimensional solid state lattices in the bulk and at the nanoscale. He then moved to MIT as postdoctoral fellow in Professor Mircea Dinca’s group, where he focused on the growth of one-dimensional van der Waals crystals and the evolution of their physical properties as they transform into ultrathin nanowires and on establishing the fundamental anisotropic physical properties of two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks. In July 2020, Professor Arguilla joined the UC Irvine Department of Chemistry as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. He is an affiliate faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Solutions that Scale Initiative. He also serves as a member of several advisory boards including the Eddleman Quantum Institute, Chemical & Engineering News, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, and Materials Chemistry Frontiers. Professor Arguilla is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the 2025 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, Top 5 awardee for the Dream Chemistry Award of the Polish and Czech Academy of Sciences, and a runner up for the 2024 RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award. He was named as one of Chemical & Engineering News’ Talented Twelve honorees in 2023, as Matter’s 35 PIs under 35 in Materials Science in 2024, and as an IUPAC Young Observer in 2025
Host: Joe Goldberger goldberger@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
