Core Faculty

	Sudipta Seal, Ph.D., Pegasus Professor, University Distinguished Professor Director, NanoScience Technology Center and Advanced Materials Processing & Analysis Center Nano Initiative Coordinator at UCF Director of Surface Engineering & Nanotech Lab, DURIP Nanomanufacturing Lab Joint Appointment in AMPAC and Professor: Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering Research Focus: Functionals Materials Processing including Nano/Micro, Bulk Nanomanufacturing, Nanobiotechnology, Surface Engineering, Coatings, Nanoenergetics, Nanotoxicity, and Advanced Analytical Tools
	Alexander Balaeff, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Physics Research Focus: Computational molecular biology and materials science, Multi-scale simulations of structural, dynamic, and electronic properties of biological and biomimetic macromolecules
	Aman Behal, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint Appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and NanoScience Technology Center Research Focus: Rehabilitation Robotics, Systems Biology, Visual Servoing, System Identification
	Richard G. Blair, Ph.D., Visiting Research Professor Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry Research Focus: Scalable syntheses for graphene, biofuels, sustainable chemistry, nanoelectroceramics, and the forensic identifications of illicit substances
	Debashis Chanda, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and College of Optics & Photonics 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
	Romain Gaume, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Joint Appointment in Center for Research and Education in Optics & Lasers, Townes Laser Institute, Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center, and NanoScience Technology Center Research Focus: Transparent polycrystalline materials offering novel functionalities for laser physics, defense, sensing, nuclear surveillance and medical applications
	Andre J. Gesquiere, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry Research Focus: Imaging and spectroscopy of nanoscale materials and biological systems
	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
	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, 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, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Physics Research Focus: Electron transport properties of nanoscale materials
	Michael N. Leuenberger, Ph.D., Associate 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, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry Research Focus: Computational Molecular and Nanomaterials, Theoretical Chemistry, and Molecular Physics
	J. Manuel Perez, Ph.D., Associate 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
	Swadeshmukul Santra, Ph.D., Associate Professor Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center and Chemistry with a Secondary Joint in Biomedical Sciences Research Focus: Nanobioimaging and Sensing
	Ming Su, Ph.D., Associate 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
	Jayan Thomas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Joint Appointment in NanoScience Technology Center, Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace 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
	Lei Zhai, Ph.D., Associate 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