Title:
The John F. Heil, Jr. Chancellor's Chair in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Department:
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Bio/CV:
- Ph.D. California Institute of Technology
- IBM Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- AT&T Foundation Special Grant Award
- National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award
- National Academy of Sciences' Sixth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Science
- Hellman Family Award
- The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award
- DOE - DP Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE)
- Departmental Citation for Excellence in Teaching
- Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Bakar Fellow
Research:
Surface/Interfacial Science and Micro-/Nanotechnology
Our research program aims to expand our understanding of materials, surfaces, and interfaces and to apply this knowledge to make advances in a number of technologically emerging and societally critical areas. Currently, at the fundamental level, we are interested in low-dimensional materials, hybrid organic/inorganic materials, metal oxides and silicates. In these materials systems, we aim to establish synthesis-structure-property relationships, and to understand and control their surfaces and interfaces. These insights are helping to guide our interest in impacting areas such as environment, health, sustainability and energy.
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