Bio | Eric Arsenault is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University. He earned his B.A. in chemistry and in physics from Wesleyan University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with high honors. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, Eric was supported by the Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. His doctoral research was recognized at the 22nd International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, where he received the Best Student Paper Prize. Returning to the East Coast, he was a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows and a postdoctoral scientist at Columbia University. Now at Yale, Arsenault's research focuses on the behavior of energy and charge in complex nanoscale environments. To access this understanding for applications in advanced-generation optoelectronic and energy conversion platforms, his lab develops and applies tailored multidimensional spectroscopies spanning across spectral regimes.

Awards & Honors

Scialog Fellow, Quantum Matter and Information Initiative, 2025

Simons Society of Fellows - Junior Fellowship, 2022-2025

Best Paper Prize, 22nd International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, 2020

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2019-2021

Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study, 2017-2019

The Wallace C. Pringle Prize for Research in Chemistry, 2017

Karl van Dyke Prize, 2017

Martius Yellow Award in Chemistry, 2017

Siver Scholarship in Physics, 2017