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Mariana G. Figueiro

Mariana G. Figueiro
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — figuem
Name: Mariana G. Figueiro
Title:Associate Professor, Program Director, LRC
School Architecture
Center Lighting Research Center (LRC)
Website:http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/education/graduateeducation/facultydetails.asp?id=11
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Education B.S. in architecture and urbanism, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; M.S. in lighting, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ph.D. in Multidisciplinary Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Robert Hull

Robert Hull
Wed, 2011-01-05 12:24 — willij
Name: Robert Hull
Title:Henry Burlage Jr. Professor of Engineering and Department Head, Materials Science & Engineering
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)
Website:http://mse.rpi.edu/faculty_details.cfm?facultyID=hullr2
Bio Hull joined RPI in January 2008 to assume the positions of the Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department and the Henry Burlage Professor of Engineering. Prior to that he spent about a decade at Bell Laboratories in the Physics Research Division, and twelve years at the University of Virginia, where he was the Director of an NSF MRSEC Center and Director of the UVA Institute for Nanoscale and Quantum Science. He received his PhD in Materials Science from Oxford University in 1983.

Hull is highly active in engineering and materials science societies and professional groups. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Materials Research Society, a member of the European Academy of Sciences, and in 1997 served as president of the Materials Research Society. He has also chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Thin Films, and chaired the Committee of Visitors for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research.

Within the realms of materials and nanoscience, Hull’s research focuses on the relationships between structure and property in electronic materials, fundamental mechanisms of thin film growth, and the self-assembly of nanoscale structures. Other areas of interest include degradation modes in electronic and optoelectronic devices, the properties of dislocations in semiconductors, nanoscale fabrication techniques, nanoscale tomographic reconstruction techniques, development of new nanoelectronic architectures, and the theory and application of electron and ion beams.
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Education Ph.D., Oxford University Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science B.A., Oxford University Physics
Scholarly Works:
  • “Quantification of Electron-Phonon Scattering for High Spatial Resolution Temperature Measurement in the Transmission Electron Microscope”, L. He and R. Hull, Nanotechnology 23, 205705:1- (2012)
  • “Enhanced magnetic and electrical properties in amorphous Ge:Mn thin films by non-magnetic codoping”, W. Yin, C.D Kell, L. He, M.C. Dolph, C. Duska, J. Lu, R. Hull, J.A. Floro, and S.A. Wolf. J. Appl. Phys. 111, 033916:1-7 (2012)
  • “Coupled effects of ion beam chemistry and morphology on directed self-assembly of epitaxial semiconductor nanostructures”, J.F. Graham, C.D. Kell, J.A. Floro, and R. Hull, Nanotechnology 29, 011029:1-5 (2011)
  • “Control of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Nanostructures: Variants of SixGe1-x/Si Quantum Dot Molecules”. J. Murphy*, R. Hull, D. Pyle, H. Wang, J. Gray and J. Floro, J. Vac. Sci. Technol 22, 075301:1-5 (2011)
  • “Modulation of the magnetism in ion implanted MnxGe1-x thin films by rapid thermal anneal”, W.J. Yin, L. He*, M.C. Dolph, J.W. Lu, R. Hull and S.A. Wolf, J. Appl. Phys. 108, 093919:1-6 (2010)
Recognitions:
  • Fellow; Materials Research Society
  • Fellow, American Physical Society

James Myers

James Myers
Thu, 2011-03-10 15:24 — myersj4
Name: James Myers
Title:Professor of Practice & Director, CCNI
Department Computer Science
School Science
Center Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI)
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/research/ccni/
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Education Ph.D.,University of California, Berkeley

Mark S. Shephard

Mark S. Shephard
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — shephm
Name: Mark S. Shephard
Title:Samuel A. Johnson '37 and Elizabeth C. Johnson Professor of Engineering.
Department Civil and Environmental Engineering Computer Science Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine (CEMSIM) Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC)
Website:http://www.scorec.rpi.edu/
Bio

Mark S. Shephard’s professional activities have focused on technologies to improve the reliability and level of automation of advanced numerical simulations to support their effective application by engineers and scientist. His research activities have lead to well recognized and applied contributions on the areas of automatic mesh generation of CAD geometry, automated and adaptive analysis methods, and parallel adaptive simulation technologies. This research has been supported by both government agencies (over 65 research grants from 13 agencies) and industry (funding from 44 companies). Dr. Shephard has published over 250 papers and graduated 24 Ph.D’s.


As part of his professional activities Mark S. Shephard founded Rensselaer's Scientific Computation Research Center that has brought together faculty form seven academic departments and three schools at Rensselaer to perform research on the development and application of advanced simulation technologies. These research activities have included collaborations with more that ten other universities over the past decade.


Mark S. Shephard is a co-founder, board member and technical advisor to Simmetrix Inc., a computer-aided engineering company dedicated to producing the technologies and associated software components to enable simulation-based engineering. Simmetrix is currently researching, developing and providing advanced simulation automation and simulation-based design technologies to CAE and Fortune 500 companies, and universities.

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Education Ph.D. Cornell University
Scholarly Works:
  • See http://www.scorec.rpi.edu/reports/

Richard W. Siegel

Richard W. Siegel
Tue, 2010-05-18 02:00 — sieger
Name: Richard W. Siegel
Title:Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Engineering and Director, Nanotechnology Center
Department Materials Science and Engineering
School Engineering
Center Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC)
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Dr. Siegel serves on the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He has also chaired the World Technology Evaluation Center worldwide study of nanostructure science and technology that led to the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative. He is the past chairman of the International Committee on Nanostructured Materials and earlier served on the U.S. National Materials Advisory Board Committee on Materials with Submicron-Sized Microstructures. He was the co-chairman of the Study Panel on Clusters and Cluster-Assembled Materials for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Siegel was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1966 to 1976 and at Argonne National Laboratory from 1974 to 1995. He has been at Rensselaer since 1995, serving as Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering from 1995 to 2000. He has authored more than 260 publications and numerous patents (11 issued, 7 pending) in the areas of defects

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Education Ph.D. Metallurgy (University of Illinois, 1965), M.S. Physics (University of Illinois, 1960), B.A. Physics (Williams College, 1958)
Scholarly Works:
  • Tao, P., Li, Y., Siegel, R. W., and Schadler, L. S., “Transparent Luminescent Silicone Nanocomposites Filled with Bimodal PDMS-Brush-Grafted CdSe Quantum Dots”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1, 86-94 (2013)
  • Gagner, J. E., Shrivastava, S., Qian, X., Dordick, J. S., and Siegel, R. W., “Engineering Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications Requires Understanding the Nano-Bio Interface ¬– A Perspective”, J. Physical Chemistry Letters 3, 3149-3158 (2012) INVITED
  • Mehta, R. J., Zhang, Y., Karthik, C. Singh, B., Siegel, R. W., Borca-Tasciuc, T, and Ramanath, G., “A New Class of Doped Nanobulk High-Figure-of-Merit Thermoelectrics by Scalable Bottom-up Assembly”, Nature Materials 11, 233-240 (2012)
  • Shrivastava, S., Nuffer, J. H., Siegel, R. W., and Dordick, J. S., “Position-specific Chemical Modification and Quantitative Proteomics Disclose Protein Orientation Adsorbed on Silica Nanoparticles”, Nano Letters 12, 1583-1587 (2012)
  • Gagner, J. E., Qian, X., Lopez, M., Dordick, J. S., and Siegel, R. W., “Effect of Gold Nanoparticle Structure on the Conformation and Function of Adsorbed Proteins”, Biomaterials 33, 8503-8516 (2012)
  • Dulgar-Tulloch, A. J., Bizios, R., and Siegel, R. W., “Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Nano- and Micro-grainsize Titania Topography”, Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications 31, 357-362 (2011)
  • Nuffer, J. H., and Siegel, R. W., “Nanostructure–Biomolecule Interactions: Implications for Tissue Regeneration and Nanomedicine”, Tissue Engineering Part A 16, 423-430 (2010) INVITED
  • Murday, J. S., Siegel, R. W., Stein, J., and Wright, J. F., “Translational Nanomedicine: Status Assessment and Opportunities”, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine 5, 251-273 (2009) FEATURE ARTICLE
  • Professor Siegel has authored or coauthored 280 articles and several patents (11 issued in US, 6 pending), edited ten books, presented more than 490 invited lectures around the world
Recognitions:
  • Fellow of Materials Research Society
  • 1994 recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award in Germany

Deanna M. Thompson

Deanna Thompson
Thu, 2011-03-10 15:12 — thompd4
Name: Deanna Thompson
Title:Associate Professor
Department Biomedical Engineering
School Engineering
Center Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC)
Bio Deanna M. Thompson received her B.S.E in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan (1993). She received her M.S (1999) and Ph.D (2001) in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University as a NIH Pre-doctoral trainee in an interdisciplinary training program in Biotechnology. Dr. Thompson did her post-doctoral training at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Shriners Burns Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital (2001-04). She joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering as an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer in 2004 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. Dr. Thompson is a member and her lab is located in the Center of Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Research Center. Dr. Thompson’s research interests are neural tissue engineering specifically related to peripheral nerve and spinal cord repair, neural stem cells, and biomaterials for nerve repair. Dr. Thompson is the recipient of the JD Watson Young Investigator Award and School of Engineering Research Award from Rensselaer. She is a member of several professional societies including Biomedical Engineering Society, Society for Biomaterials and Society for Neuroscience as well as the reviewer for several international and national journals and grant agencies. She is on the Executive Committee for the NIH Biomolecular Pre-doctoral training program and is the faculty co-advisor for the Society of Women Engineers
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Education BSE, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
MS, Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University (Piscataway)
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Rutgers University (Piscataway)

Christian M. Wetzel

Christian M. Wetzel
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — wetzel
Name: Christian M. Wetzel
Title:Constellation Professor
Department Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
School Science
Center Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) Center for Integrated Electronics (CIE) Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC)
Constellation Future Chips
Website:http://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/wetzel.html
Bio Wetzel was a Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory through 1996. In 1997 he joined the High Tech Research Center at Meijo University Nagoya, Japan. In October 2000 he joined Uniroyal Optoelectronics as a Senior Epi Scientist and Green Project Manager. He was responsible for new MOCVD epi processes and developed a production process for high brightness green GaInN/GaN LEDs.

Since March 2004 he is a Future Chips Constellation Professor and Associate Professor of Physics at Rensselaer. The Constellation comprises three chaired faculty who develop new concepts for light emitting devices and optoelectronics. Dr. Wetzel's work has been published in some 110 papers that received over 1500 citations.

Research Interests
Dr. Wetzel’s research centers on the electronic band and defect structure of wide band gap semiconductor materials and devices by means of optical spectroscopy under external perturbation. Since 1993, Dr. Wetzel has focused on group-III nitrides with major contributions in the identification of the residual donor in GaN as oxygen and its DX-type behavior. In the group of Prof. Akasaki, he studied the processes of light emission in GaInN quantum wells. He demonstrated the dominance of piezoelectric polarization in the band structure and the light emission processes. At RPI he implements the concepts of piezoelectric bandstructure control to realize new concepts of high efficiency light emitting devices and solar cells. Current emphasis lies on high brightness light emitting diodes emitting in the 520 – 560 nm green spectral region.
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Education 1993 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.), summa cum laude, Physics, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany. 1988 Diplom (M.S.) Technical Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany. Specialization in Electronic Devices and Control Theory. 1984 Vordiplom (B.S.) Technical Physics, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Scholarly Works:
  • “Determination of Piezoelectric Fields in GaInN Strained Quantum Wells Using the Quantum-Confined Stark Effect,” T. Takeuchi, C. Wetzel, S. Yamaguchi, H. Sakai, H. Amano, I. Akasaki, Y. Kaneko, S. Nakagawa, Y. Yamaoka, and N. Yamada; Appl. Phys. Lett. 73(12), 1691-3 (1998), doi:10.1063/1.122247. “On p-Type Doping in GaN - Acceptor Binding Energies,” S. Fischer, C. Wetzel, E.E. Haller, B.K. Meyer; Appl. Phys. Lett. 67, 1298-300 (1995), doi:10.1063/1.114403. “Optical Band Gap in Ga1-xInxN (0