Halas Group Members
Principal Investigator
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Naomi Halas Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy Director, Laboratory for Nanophotonics DSc, 2007, La Salle University
PhD, 1987, Physics, Bryn Mawr College
MA, 1984, Physics, Bryn Mawr College
BA, 1980, Chemistry, La Salle College
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Research Scientists
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Surbhi Lal Research Scientist
Electrical & Computer Engineering
PhD, 2006, Applied Physics, Rice University
MS, 1997, Physics, Texas Tech University
MS, 1988, Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, New Dehli, IndiaBS, 1986, Physics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India |
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Oara Neumann Research Scientist Electrical & Computer Engineering PhD, 2013, Applied Physics, Rice University MS, 2004, Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel MS, 1997, Analytical Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Romania BA, 1996, Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Romania Research: Probing of biomolecules using plasmonic nanostructures Solar Steam generation using plasmonic nanoparticles |
Graduate Students
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Catherine Arndt Applied Physics BS, 2019, Physics, Baylor University Research: Nonlinear optics using plasmonics and nanophotonics |
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Aaron Bayles Chemistry BS, 2017, Chemistry, College of William & Mary Research: Plasmonic photocatalysis and surface chemistry engineering |
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Kyle Chapkin Applied Physics BS, 2014, Astrophysics, Rice University Research: Ultrafast dynamics and characterization of molecular plasmon systems |
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Luke Henderson Chemistry BS, 2015, Chemistry, Auburn University
Research:
Synthesis of plasmonic nanomaterials for medical applications
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Christian Jacobson Chemistry
BA, 2016, Chemistry, Northwestern University
Research:
Synthesis and dark field spectroscopy of aluminum nanoparticles
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Shih-Yao Lin Applied Physics MS, 2018, Physics, National Taiwan University BS, 2016, Physics, National Taiwan University Research: Strategies to enhance performance of nanophotonics-enabled desalination |
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Minghe Lou Chemistry
BS, 2017, Chemistry, Peking University
Research:
Plasmonic Photocatalysis
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David Renard Chemistry BS, 2015, Chemistry, University of Michigan - Dearborn Research: Surface modification and directed growth of aluminum nanoparticles |
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Michael Semmlinger Applied Physics MS, 2018, Applied Physics, Rice University BS, 2015, Physics, Sam Houston State University Research:
Nonlinear optics using plasmonics and nanophotonics
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David Solti
Chemistry
BA, 2018, Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Research:
Size and shape control of Al nanoparticles and post-synthetic modifications
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Lin Yuan Chemistry BS, 2017, Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China MA, 2019, Chemistry, Rice University Research: Nanostructure fabrication and plasmonic photocatalysis |
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Yigao Yuan Chemistry BS, 2019, Chemistry, Nanjing University, China Research: Plasmon-enhanced heterogeneous catalysis |
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Ben Cerjan Physics PhD, 2019, Physics, Rice University BA, 2012, Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College Research: Tunable metasurfaces for vibrant color |
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Pratiksha Dongare Electrical & Computer Engineering PhD, 2019, Applied Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA MS, 2017, Applied Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA MSc, 2013, Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India BE, 2013, Electronics and Instrumentation, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India Research: Strategies to enhance performance of nanophotonics-enabled desalination |
Lab Administrators
Alumni
| Carla Aguirre | Graduate Research Associate, University of Montreal | |
| Richard Averitt | Associate Professor, Boston University | |
| Rizia Bardhan | Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University | |
| Aoune Barhoumi | Postdoctoral Fellow, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT | |
| Felix Berg | ||
| Sandra Bishnoi | Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology | |
| Kelley Bradley | Nanofabrication Facility Manager, University of Houston | |
| Bruce Brinson | Self-Employed Consultant | |
| Lisa Brown | Postdoctoral Associate, NIST Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD | |
| Clarence Charnay | Universite Montpellier 2, Place Eugene Batallion, France | |
| Alan Cheville | Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University | |
| Benjamin Clark | nanoComposix, San Diego | |
| Joseph Cole | Algorithm Developer, Applied Materials | |
| Jared Day | ||
| Christopher DeSantis | ||
| Liangliang Dong | Engineer, Lam Research, Fremont, CA | |
| Dan Duan | ||
| Zheyu Fang | Research Professor, Peking University; Adjunct Faculty, Rice ECE Department | |
| Tumasang Fofang | Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Nathaniel Grady | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Physics & Beijing National Lab for Condensed Matter Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Muhammed Gheith | ||
| Amanda Goodman | Senior Chemist, The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX | |
| Glenn Goodrich | Director, Process Development and Chemistry, Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., Houston | |
| Sam Gottheim | Process Engineer, Applied Materials | |
| Jan-Philipp Guenther | ||
| Greg Hale | Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. | |
| Lee Hirsch | Director, Defense Science Study Group, Inst for Def Analyses, Washington DC | |
| Nathan Hogan | Zions Bank, Salt Lake City, UT | |
| Ryan Huschka | Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Newman University | |
| Joseph Jackson | Patent Engineer, Osha Liang LLC, Houston | |
| Tara Kasper | ||
| Kevin Kelly | Associate Professor, Rice University | |
| Mark Knight | Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam | |
| Nick King | Proportional Technologies, Houston, Texas | |
| Janardan Kundu | Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Adam Lauchner | Mission Control, NASA | |
| Britt Lassiter | Postdoctoral Fellow, David Smith Group, Duke University | |
| Allen Lee | ||
| Carly Levin | Senior Research Scientist, Nano3D Biosciences, Inc. | |
| Carrie Li | ||
| Na Liu | Assistant Professor, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Yu Liu | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Nyein Zaw Lwin | MBA Program, Florida | |
| Valeria Marangoni | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | |
| Michael McClain | Fletcher Yoder, Houston, TX | |
| Nikolay Mirin | R&D Photolithography Process Engineer, Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho | |
| Cristin Moran | 3M, Minnesota | |
| Julius Mueller | ||
| Shaunak Mukherjee | Engineer, Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA | |
| Steve Oldenburg | President, nanoComposix, San Diego | |
| Ciceron Ayala-Orozco | Postdoctoral Associate, Rice University | |
| Alejandra Garcia Piantanida | ||
| Phil Pippenger | Intellectual Property Attorney, Leydig, Voit, & Mayer, Ltd., Chicago | |
| Corey Radloff | 3M, Minnesota | |
| Matt Reiten | ||
| Jay Resh | Director, Advantage Testing, Houston | |
| Hossein Robatjazi |
Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Barbara |
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| Dipankar Sarkar | Angstrom Instruments, India | |
| Andrea Schlather | Postdoctoral Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | |
| Scott Sershen | United States Surgical | |
| Ali Sobhani | Wafer Fabrication R&D Scientist | |
| Jennifer Steele | Assistant Professor, Trinity University, San Antonio | |
| Sri Priya Sundararajan | Senior Si Process Engineer, OneChipPhotonics, Ottawa, ON | |
| Dayne Swearer |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University |
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| Felicia Tam | Oxonica Materials, Inc., Mountain View, CA | |
| Mehbuba Tanzid (Mihika) | Intel. Santa Clara, CA | |
| Robin Taylor Shu Tian |
Assistant Professor, Institute of Particle Technology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | |
| Ming Lun Tseng | Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Christyn Thibodeaux | ||
| Alex Urban | Principal Investigator, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München | |
| Hui Wang | Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina | |
| Fangfang Wen | Sr. R&D Engineer, Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho | |
| Sarah Westcott | Nomadics, Stillwater, OK | |
| Dan Wolfe | ||
| Jian Ye | Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| Chao Zhang Dongmao Zhang |
Sr. Device Engineer, Yangtze Memory Technologies Inc. San Jose, CA Associate Professor, Mississippi State University |
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| Yu Zhang | Engineer, Lam Research, Fremont, CA | |
| Bob Zheng | ||
| Linan Zhou | Chief scientist, Syzygy Plasmonics, Houston, TX |