Our Faculty

Sudipta Seal

Sudipta Seal, Ph.D., Professor
Director, NanoScience Technology Center and Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center
Joint Appointment in AMPAC and Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering
Nano Initiative Coordinator at UCF
Director of Surface Engineering & Nanotech Lab, DURIP Nanomanufacturing Lab
Research Focus: Functionals Materials Processing including Nano/Micro, Bulk Nanomanufacturing, Nanobiotechnology, Surface Engineering, Coatings, Nanoenergetics, Nanotoxicity, and Advanced Analytical Tools

James J. Hickman

James J. Hickman, Ph.D., Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center, Chemistry,and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science with a Secondary Joint in Biomedical Sciences
Research Focus: Hybrid systems for biological computation and fundamental investigations in neuroscience and cell biology

JAman Behal

Aman Behal, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and NanoScience Technology Center
Research Focus: Rehabilitation Robotics, Systems Biology, Visual Servoing, System Identification

Joseph P. Brennan

Joseph P. Brennan, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Joint Appointment in Mathematics and NanoScience Technology Center
Research Focus: Commutative algebra, algebraic geometry, nanomaterial modeling, algebraic biology, error-correcting codes, cryptography, combinatorics, representation theory, and invariant theory.

Quanfang Chen

Quanfang Chen, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Joint Appointment in Mechanical, Materials, & Aerospace Engineering, and NanoScience Technology Center
Research Focus: Micro/nano machining for micro/nanosystems including MEMS/NEMS; microfluidics inlcuding programmable microfluidic system for biosensors.

Beatriz Roldán Cuenya

Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Joint Appointment in Physics and NanoScience Technology Center
Research Focus: Dr. Cuenya's group investigates the physics and chemistry of nanostructured surfaces including research on nanoscale catalysts, nanomagnetics, photon-induced structural and chemical changes.

Diego Díaz

Diego Díaz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in Chemistry and NanoScience Technology Center
Research Focus: Electrochemistry, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Sensors, Novel Electroluminescent Devices

Steven J. Duranceau

Steven J. Duranceau, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor & Director of ESEI
Joint Appointment in Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering and NanoScience Technology Center
Director of the Environmental Systems Engineering Institute
Research Focus: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Synthetic Membranes, Corrosion, Water Quality, Environment

Andre J. Gesquiere

Andre J. Gesquiere, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry
Research Focus: Imaging and spectroscopy of nanoscale materials and biological systems

Qun Huo

Qun "Treen" Huo, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry
Research Focus: Synthesis, property studies, and application development of nanoparticle materials

Masahiro Ishigami

Masahiro Ishigami, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in Physics and NanoScience Technology Center
Research Focus: Electronic transport measurements on novel nanoscale materials, scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of nanoscale thermal/mechanical/electronic devices, and nanomaterials synthesis

Saiful I. Khondaker

Saiful I. Khondaker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Physics
Research Focus: Electron transport properties of nanoscale materials

Stephen Lambert

Stephen Lambert, Ph.D., Associate Professor
College of Medicine; NanoScience Technology Center Affiliated Faculty
Research Focus: Behavior, physiology and pathophysiology of neuronal systems within hybrid in vitro models.

Michael N. Leuenberger

Michael N. Leuenberger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Physics
Research Focus: Quantum information, quantum mechanics, spintronics and opto-spintronics, nonlinear optical phenomena, semiconductor physics, molecular magnets, quantum many-body physics

Artëm E. Masunov

Artëm E. Masunov, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry
Research Focus: Computational Molecular and Nanomaterials, Theoretical Chemistry, and Molecular Physics

Peter Molnar

Peter Molnar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center with a Secondary Joint in Biomedical Sciences
Research Focus: Behavior, physiology and pathophysiology of neuronal systems; stem cell innervation of myotubes

J. Manuel Perez

J. Manuel Perez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry with a Secondary Joint in Biomedical Sciences
Research Focus: Nanoparticle technologies and their application in nanomedicine, molecular diagnostics, molecular imaging, biosensors and cancer research

Talat Shahnaz Rahman

Talat Shahnaz Rahman, Ph.D., Provost Distinguished Research Professor
Chair, Dept. of Physics, Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center
Research Focus: The theoretical and computational modeling of materials with particular interest in understanding mechanisms that control epitaxial growth and morphological evolution, friction and adhesion, and chemical reactivity of nanostructured surfaces and nanoparticles.

Swadeshmukul Santra

Swadeshmukul Santra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry with a Secondary Joint in Biomedical Sciences
Research Focus: Nanobioimaging and Sensing

Nicoleta Sorloaica-Hickman

Nicoleta Sorloaica-Hickman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in Florida Solar Energy Center and NanoScience Technology Center
Research Focus: Dr. Sorloaica-Hickman's major research interest is in photovoltaic and thermoelectric materials, devices and testing.

Ming Su

Ming Su, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering
Research Focus: Integrated optoelectronic and nanomechanical devices, nanostructured materials and applications, advanced scanning probe microscope

Lei Zhai

Lei Zhai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry
Research Focus: Polyelectrolyte multilayer films for sensing and tissue engineering, smart surfaces, and conductive polymer nanowires and composites

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