{"id":9708,"date":"2022-10-04T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/?post_type=person&#038;p=9708"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:28:47","slug":"winston-schoenfeld","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/person\/winston-schoenfeld\/","title":{"rendered":"Winston V. Schoenfeld, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"row d-flex\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"flex-first col-lg-4\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-8591 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Schoenfeld-2024.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"text-left mb-2 flex-md-last flex-lg-unordered col-lg-8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<p><strong>Dr. Winston V. Schoenfeld<\/strong>\u00a0is vice president for Research and Innovation and professor of Optics, MSE and ECE at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. in materials science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining UCF in 2004, Schoenfeld served as device manager at Uniroyal Optoelectronics, working in the area of high-brightness light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and later in 2003 founded Medical Lighting Solutions, Inc., a supplier of specialty LED lighting solutions for the medical and biomedical industries. From 2011-2017, he served at UCF as director of the c-Si Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium, establishing the first industry-led U.S. c-Si PV consortium and overseeing more than $10 million in collaborative research projects between consortium members.<\/p>\n<p>At UCF, he has secured more than $25 million in research funding and authored or co-authored more than 145 refereed journal publications in the areas of photovoltaics, the epitaxial growth and properties of oxide semiconductors, oxide and nitride-semiconductor light-emitting diodes, self-assembled quantum dots, e-beam nano-lithography, quantum information\/networks, comprehensive modeling of nanowire devices and solid-state nuclear material detection. Schoenfeld is a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics and a senior\/life member of Optica, a leading society in optics and photonics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.ucf.edu\/\">Visit the UCF Office of Research website<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp;","protected":false},"featured_media":10491,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9708","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_group-cabinet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Winston V. 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