Core Faculty
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Aman Behal, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and NanoScience Technology Center Research focus: Rehabilitation Robotics, Systems Biology, Visual Servoing, System Identification |
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Debashis Chanda, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Physics and Center for Research & Education in Optics & Lasers Research focus: Thin-film solar cells, study of light-matter interactions in artificially structured metal/dielectric structures (metamaterials, plasmonic nanostructures), transformation optics for display/camouflage, printed optics/opto-electronics components, strong coupling between photonic and plasmonic resonances, biological/chemical sensors |
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Yajie Dong, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, and Materials Science & Engineering Research focus: Semiconductor nanomaterials for information and energy applications, Quantum dot light emitting devices and organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells |
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Romain Gaume, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in Center for Research and Education in Optics & Lasers, Townes Laser Institute, Materials Science and Engineering, NanoScience Technology Center Research focus: Transparent polycrystalline materials offering novel functionalities for laser physics, defense, sensing, nuclear surveillance and medical applications |
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Andre J. Gesquiere, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry Research focus: Imaging and spectroscopy of nanoscale materials and biological systems |
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Xiufang (Nadine) Guo, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor Joint appointments in Graduate Faculty, Burnett College of Biomolecular Sciences Research focus: Stem cell biology and differentiation, in vitro modeling of human diseases, investigation of neurodegenerative diseases and drug evaluation |
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James J. Hickman, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Physics, and Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences (2nd) Research focus: Hybrid systems for biological computation and fundamental investigations in neuroscience and cell biology |
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Qun "Treen" Huo, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering Research focus: Synthesis, property studies, and application development of nanoparticle materials |
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Masahiro Ishigami, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Physics Research focus: Electronic transport measurements on novel nanoscale materials, scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of nanoscale thermal/mechanical/electronic devices, and nanomaterials synthesis |
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Yeonwoong (Eric) Jung, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Materials Science & Engineering Research focus: Low-dimensional electronic materials (nanowires and 2D materials), Nanoscale structure-property relationships, in-situ transmission electron microscopy, energy and electronic technologies |
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Ellen H. Kang, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Physics Graduate Faculty in Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences Research focus: Biophysics of cytoskeletal protein assembly and dynamics, biopolymer and cell mechanics, molecular mechanism of mechano-sensing |
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Saiful I. Khondaker, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center and Physics Research focus: Electron transport properties of nanoscale materials |
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Michael N. Leuenberger, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments 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 |
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Arkadiy Lyakh, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Center for Research & Education in Optics & Lasers, Physics Research focus: Physics of intersubband transitions and carrier transport through multi-layered semiconductor structures, low dimensional semiconductor devices, monolithic sensors, infrared spectroscopy |
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Artëm E. Masunov, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Chemistry, Physics Research focus: Computational Molecular and Nanomaterials, Theoretical Chemistry, and Molecular Physics |
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Swaminathan Rajaraman, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Material Science & Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, International Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing Research (ICAMR) Research focus: Micro/Nanofabrication Technologies; Neuroengineering; Micro/Nanofabrication on Plastics, Paper, Biomaterials and other novel materials; Flexible Electronics Fabrication Technologies; Implantable MEMS/NEMS Devices; Wearable MEMS Devices; Microfluidics; Packaging - Microelectronic and Biomedical Devices; Microneedles for painless drug delivery; Advanced Micro/Nano-Materials Development; Micro/Nano-Manipulation |
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Swadeshmukul Santra, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences (2nd) Research focus: Quantum Dot Nanotechnology; Nanomedicine; Agricultural Biocides; Environmental Nanotoxicology;Nanofiltration |
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Sudipta Seal, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Materials Science & Engineering Joint appointments in Materials Science & Engineering, Advanced Materials Processing & Analysis Center, NanoScience Technology Center, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine Research focus: Rare earth oxides, Nanomedicine and sensors, Nano energetics, Sustainability & Materials for Circular Economy, Scalable Manufacturing, and Surface Engineering |
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Wen Shen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Research focus: Sensors and Systems, Biomedical and Implantable Devices, Micro/Nano-manufacturing, Functional Materials and Devices, Wearable Electronics |
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Laurene Tetard, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Physics, Materials Science & Engineering Research focus: Development of high resolution microscopy and spectroscopy tools to advance the level of understanding of the behavior of materials and complex systems based on morphological, subsurface, physical and chemical properties at the nanoscale |
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Jayan Thomas, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center, Materials Science & Engineering, and Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers Research focus: Nanostructured Supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries, nanoarchitectured light trapping solar cells, photorefractive polymers for 3D display applications, nonlinear optical materials, plasmonic structures and printed optical and photonic devices |
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Yang Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint appointments in Nanoscience Technology Center, Materials Science & Engineering Research focus: Advanced materials and nanotechnology for renewable energy devices, environmental science and smart electronics |
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Lei Zhai, Ph.D., Professor Joint appointments in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry Research focus: Polyelectrolyte multilayer films for sensing and tissue engineering, smart surfaces, and conductive polymer nanowires and composites |
