Joel Yuen-Zhou is currently the Robert J. Silbey Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center of Excitonics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a BSc in Chemistry and Mathematics from the same school in 2007 and a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University in 2012. His research interests are broadly located in the realm of quantum dynamics, specializing in nonlinear spectroscopy, quantum information, time-dependent density functional theory, and topological phases of matter.