Principal Investigator
Jayan Thomas, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Wearable Devices, Energy Storage Devices, Batteries, Supercapacitors, Polymer Solar Cells, Perovskite Solar Cells, Quantum Dots, Optical Limiting Materials, Plasmonic Structures and Holographic Materials
Scientists/Post-Doctoral Fellows
Farzana Aktar Chowdhury, Ph.D.
Research Interests
Nanotechnology, Quantum Dots, Materials
Characterization
Raju Nagaiah, Ph.D.
Adjunct Research Associate
raju@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Modelling and Simulation in optimization of
energy storage devices, Genetic Algorithms for design
optimization, Thermal-Fluids
Graduate Students
Kowsik Sambath Kumar
Materials Science and Engineering
kowsik@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
2D Nanomaterials and Nano-Architectured
Materials for Supercapacitors and Batteries
Deepak Pandey
Material Science and Engineering
dpandey@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Batteries, Solar Cells, Wearable Energy Devices
Jinxin Li
Optics and Photonics
jinxinli821@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Optoelectronics including solar cells and phototransistors, Organic electrochemical transistors, Perovskite quantum dots, Plasmonics, Biosensing, Neuromorphic computing, Machine learning
Leaford Nathan Henderson
Material Science and Engineering
leaford.henderson@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Photovoltaics, Batteries and Energy Storage, Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics
Jose Belisario
Material Science and Engineering
Jose.Belisario@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Photonics, Quantum dots, photovoltaics, and supercapacitors
Undergraduate Students
Gustavo Suarez
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Gustavosuarez31@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Wearable Energy Devices, Nanomaterials, Energy Storage, Supercapacitors, and Solar Cells
Alumni
Danielle Abbitt
Muhammad Zain Amin
Mechanical Engineering
ZainAmin@knights.ucf.edu
Christopher Beall
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
chrisbeall@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Perovskite Solar Cell
Brandon Carpenter
Panit Chantharasupawong
Optics and Photonics
panitchamp@knights.ucf.edu
Nitesh Dhasmana
Optics and Photonics
n.dhasmana@knights.ucf.edu
Binh Duong
Current Postdoc, UC Santa Barbara
Jitesh Kumar
Optics and Photonics
Jitesh.kumar@knights.ucf.edu
Chao Li
Materials Science and Engineering
leeson2005a@knights.ucf.edu
Yi Liu
Current Participant in NUE Project
yimoonrabbit@gmail.com
Jordan Lopez
Aerospace Engineering
jordanjlopez459@gmail.com
Research Interests
Supercapacitors, Photocapacitors
Josie Lorenzo
Jarrod Maloney
Aerospace Engineering
jarrodmaloney1@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Material Characterization, Optical Limiting
Christie Miller
Optics and Photonics
christie.miller@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Tunable Plasmonic Structures for Biological
Sensing
Julian Moore
Dr. Reji Philip
Associate Professor
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Basudev Pradhan, Ph.D.
(BASE Fellow, funded by Indo-US Science & Technology Forum)
Basudev.Pradhan@ucf.edu
Research Interests
Energy Harvesting Devices, Polymer Solar Cells, Perovskite Solar Cells, Photodetectors, and Opto-Electronic Device Developments
Navid Saint-Hilaire
Rosheyla Saint-Hilaire
Hilda Reyes Salvador
Biomedical Sciences
Hreyessalvador@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Li-ion batteries, Capacitors, Quantum Dot
Production, Plasmonics
Anukrit Saxena
Optical Engineering
anukritsaxena@knights.ucf.edu
Research Interests
Optical Limiting, Holography, Four-wave Mixing
and Optical Characterization
Navraj Singh
Research Interests
Nanotechnology, Solar Cells, Energy Storage and Energy Harvesting Devices
Joseph Sleppy
Sreekanth J. Varma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sanatana Dharma College
Alappuzha, Kerala, India
dr.sreekanthvarma@gmail.com
Zenan Yu
Materials Science and Engineering
zenan.yu@knights.ucf.edu