Harris Pirie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, where he used scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to image correlated topological materials, and developed acoustic metamaterials as macroscopic platforms for emulating quantum behavior. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford, he pioneered a new STM technique to image how electronic charge is distributed at the atomic scale in complex materials. At Rice, his group combines acoustic metamaterials, molecular beam epitaxy, and low-temperature STM to prototype, fabricate, and characterize quantum materials, linking real-space structure to emergent physical properties.