Dr. Jacob Pettine received his Ph.D. in physics as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder and JILA. Working with Prof. David J. Nesbitt, he developed new capabilities for measuring, modeling, and optically controlling ultrafast carrier dynamics in nanoplasmonic systems. As a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he is now utilizing these insights to explore ultrafast nanophotonic and nanoelectronic dynamics in novel hybrid nanoplasmonic-quantum material systems.