Dr. Nicholas J. Borys is an experimental physicist and materials scientist at Montana State University. His research group, the Borys Lab (www.boryslab.com) specializes in quantum materials and nano-optics research. Dr. Borys earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Utah, and prior to his position at Montana State University, he worked as a project scientist at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. His expertise is in optoelectronic phenomena in low-dimensional nanoscale materials and bulk nanostructured systems. Using advanced nano-optical and cryogenic optical characterization techniques, his research is driven by establishing structure-property relationships and discovering new phenomena in these materials at the nanoscale. Dr. Borys has extensive experience in nano-optical imaging and spectroscopy as well as low-temperature single particle optical spectroscopy techniques. At MSU, Dr. Borys is currently building a new suite of experimental capabilities designed to combines these techniques to study quantum materials.