Experience
 

Associate Professor

          Michigan State University, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, East Lansing, MI

Assistant Professor (2002-2008)

Michigan State University, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, East Lansing, MI

Postdoctoral Associate

 MIT, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Dept. of Materials Science Engineering, Cambridge, MA
Chemical Engineering / Materials Science / The Microphotonics Center

• with: Profs. Paula.T. Hammond and Michael.F. Rubner

• Colloidal self-organization for photonic application

•  Microcontact printing (including PDMS stamp design)

•  Polymer stamping on polymers and solid surfaces

•  Patterned polyelectrolyte multilayer on patterned SAMs

•  Selective Metal Deposition on Complex Colloid-PLBL Microstructures

•  Nanoreactors for metallic particles within micropatterned multilayers

Graduate Research Assistant

•   University of Delaware, Dept. of Chemical Engineering. Wool Interface Group, Newark,       Delaware

•   Synthesis and Characterization of polymers (carboxylated polybutadiene)

•   Surface modification and Characterization (self assembly of silanes)

•   Polymer-Solid Interface Design and Analysis  (structure and strength)

•   Manufacturing and Testing of Composites and Polymers (vinyl ester and glass fibers)

•   XPS, AFM, FTIR, DSIMS, RTM, SWLI, contact angle analysis, etc.