Research Interests
- Modeling of phase transformations and thin film growth
- Electrodeposition and molecular beam epitaxy
- CdTe thin film photovoltaics
- Medical applications of gold core/shell and silver nanoparticles
- Co-developer of the FiPy partial differential equation package for phase transformation modeling
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Position:
Materials Scientist
Metallurgy Division
Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group
Employment History:
- 2000–present: Staff Member, Metallurgy Division, NIST
- 1997–2000: NRC-NIST Postdoctoral Research Associate, Semiconductor Electronics Division, NIST
- 1991–1997: Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
- 1995: NSF Summer Institute in Japan, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan
- 1986-1991: Division Officer, Nuclear Powered Submarine, USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633) BLUE, United States Navy
Education:
- PhD, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Materials Science and Engineering
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- Dissertation: “Stability of Alloy Thin Films”
Advisors: Prof. Peter W. Voorhees and Prof. Scott A. Barnett
- Naval Nuclear Propulsion School, Orlando, FL and S5G Prototype Reactor, Idaho Falls, ID
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- Intensive, year-long, practical and theoretical training in nuclear reactor operations
- BS, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Materials Science and Engineering
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- Thesis: “Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence in InP/InAsP Strained Layer Superlattices”
Advisors: Dean Jerome B. Cohen and Prof. Bruce W. Wessels
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