The World at MIT: Moungi Bawendi

Moving from France to Tunisia to the United States as a child, Moungi Bawendi remembers he didn’t feel like he “belonged” anywhere. Much later, even his postdoctoral research on the properties of quantum dots again made him feel like “an outsider” entering “this field of synthetic chemistry that I really didn’t know much about.” An outsider in the field no more, Moungi is now at home as MIT’s Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry.

“The World at MIT” videos underscore MIT’s distinctive nature as a community that is at once profoundly American and deeply connected to the world. In brief, three-minute interviews, faculty members recount the experiences and circumstances that drew them here and how and why they came to adopt MIT as their professional home.

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