Alexandra Brumberg is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Drexel University. Her group's research focuses on unifying structural changes in materials (like those that occur during crystallization, self-assembly, and phase transitions) with their electronic dynamics and optoelectronic properties though in situ methods and ultrafast characterization techniques.

Alexandra received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2021 from Northwestern University, where she worked with Richard Schaller studying the photophysical properties of semiconductor nanoparticles using ultrafast spectroscopy. She completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Santa Barbara, under the guidance of Ram Seshadri and Michael Chabinyc. During that time, she applied her knowledge of semiconductor optical properties to the study of vacancy-ordered double perovskites and their structure/property relationships.

Alexandra grew up in Brookline, MA and attended nearby Tufts University for her undergraduate studies in chemistry and mathematics. While there, she fell in love with research through my studies of single-crystal ice growth in the lab of Mary Jane Shultz.

Outside of lab, Alexandra likes to dance, read, and crochet, as well as solve all kinds of puzzles: jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, and of course the daily Spelling Bee. She also spends a lot of her time dreaming about having a cat one day.