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LDL Group (July 2009)                LDL Group (May, 2009)

            

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Prof. Mostafa El-Sayed, Julius Brown Chair and Regents Professor; Director, Laser Dynamics Laboratory.

phone: 404-894-0292

e-mail: melsayed@gatech.edu

web: Mostafa A. El-Sayed

Biographical Sketch

Professional Dossier

 

 

 

 

Dr. Wei Qian, Assistant Director, Laser Dynamics Laboratory

phone: 404-894-8224

e-mail: wei.qian@chemistry.gatech.edu

curriculum vitae

     

 

Dr. Xiaohua Huang, Postdoctoral Associate  

phone:404-894-4009

e-mail: xiaohua.huang@chemistry.gatech.edu

project: Gold nanoparticles for cancer cell imaging and photothermal therapy

 

         
     

Erik Dreaden, 4th year graduate student

phone: 404-894-4009

email: edreaden@gatech.edu

project: Plasmonic particle-based cancer diagnostics/therapeutics. Time-resolved spectroscopy and computational electrodynamics of hybrid semiconductor-plasmonic nanostructures.

curriculum vitae

     

 

Chun-Wan Yen, 3rd year graduate student

 

phone: 404-894-4009

 

email: cyen3@mail.gatech.edu

 

project: Nanocatalysis

 

     

Dr. Mahmoud A. Mahmoud, Visiting Research Scientist

 

phone: 404-894-4009

 

email: mmahmoud7@mail.gatech.edu

 

project: Catalysis and nanoparticle assembly

         
     

 

Steven Lambert, 3rd year graduate student

 

phone: 404-894-4009

 

email: steven.hayden@gatech.edu

 

project: Ligand-functionalized gold nanoparticle/fluorescent polymer conjugates for bacterial sensing

 
     

 

Megan Mackey, 3rd year graduate student

 

phone: 404-894-4009

 

email: mmackey7@gatech.edu

 

project: Applications of nanotechnology to biology and nanomedicine

 

     

 

Adam Poncheri, 3rd year graduate student

 

phone: 404-894-4009

 

email: aponcheri3@mail.gatech.edu

 

project: Time-resolved studies of field enhanced emission

 

     

Li-kang Chu, Postdoctoral Associate

 

phone: 404-894-4009

 

email: lchu8@gatech.edu

 

project: The branched photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin

 

     

Rachel Near, 2nd year graduate student

 

phone: 404-894-4009

 

email: gtg417y@mail.gatech.edu

 

project:  Nano-catalytic hydrogen production

curriculum vitae

     

Bin Kang, Visiting Scholar

 

phone: 404-894-4009

 

email: bin.kang@chemistry.gatech.edu

 

project:  Single laser pulse-based photoacoustic dynamics and cancer treatment

curriculum vitae

         
       

 

 
       

RECENT GROUP ALUMNI

 

     

Christopher Tabor, PhD graduate

Thesis: Some Optical and Catalyic Properties of Metallic Nanoparticles

Currently: Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Base, Dayton, OH

curriculum vitae

     

Dr. Svetlana Neretina, Postdoctoral Associate

 

Project: Spectroscopic studies of field-enhanced non-radiative relaxation and electron-beam lithography of plasmonic particle arrays

 

Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

 

 

     

Arianna Biesso, PhD graduate

Thesis: Plasmonic field effects on the spectroscopic and photobiological function of the photosynthetic system of bacteriorhodopsin

Currently: US National Institute of Health, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Optical Spectroscopy Section
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

     

Prashant Jain, PhD graduate

e-mail: jainprashantk@gmail.com

Thesis: Plasmons in assembled metal nanostructures: Radiative and non-radiative properties, near-field coupling and its universal scaling behavior

Currently: Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard University, Cohen group

 

     

Dr. Wenyu Huang, PhD graduate

Thesis: Fundamental studies of the interaction between femtosecond laser and patterned monolayer plasmonic nanostructures.

Currently: Postdoctoral Associate, UC Berkeley, Somorjai group

 

Dr. Sujatha Pushpakanth, Postdoctoral Associate

Research: In vivo studies of gold nanoparticles for cancer therapy

Currently: GE Bangalore, India

 

     

Dr. Hiromasa Nishikiori, Visiting Scientist

Research Area: Photodynamics studies of dye-sensitized TiO2 system

Currently: Assistant Professor, Shinshu University, Japan

 

       

Dr. Kyeong Seok Lee, Visiting Scientist

 

Research Area: Theoretical and Computational Study of Optical Properties of Au & Ag Nanoparticles

Currently: KIST, Korea.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Qusai Darugar, PhD graduate

Thesis: Surface Effects on the Ultrafast Electronic Relaxation of Some Semiconductor and Metallic Nanoparticles

Currently: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Houston.

     

Chris Gaddis, Graduate Research Assistant

Research Area: Semiconductor Nanocrystal Heterostructures

Currently: Nanosphere, Inc..

 

 

 

 

Dr. Alex Schill, PhD graduate

Thesis: Interesting Electronic and Dynamic Properties of Quantum Dot Quantum Wells & other Semiconductor Nanocrystal Heterostructures

Currently: Senior Product Support Engineer, Coherent, Inc.

 

 

 

Dr. Susie Eustis, PhD graduate

Thesis: Metallic nanoparticles: shape-dependent optical properties

Currently: NRC Postdoctoral Associate, NIST

 

 

 

Dr. Xiaohua Huang, PhD graduate

Thesis: Gold nanoparticles for cancer cell imaging and photothermal therapy

Currently: Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence: Laser Dynamics Lab/Emory University

 

 

 

Dr. Laurie Sanii, PhD graduate

Thesis: Bacteriorhodopsin: structure/function relationship

Currently: Clorox, Inc. Livermore, CA

     

Dr. Radha Narayanan, PhD graduate

Thesis: Shape-Dependent Nanocatalysis and the Effect of Catalysis on the Shape and Size of Colloidal Metal Nanoparticles

Currently: Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island

 

     

Dr. Stephan Link, PhD graduate

Thesis: Spectral Properties and Relaxation Dynamics of Surface Plasmon Electronic Oscillations in Gold and Silver Nanodots and Nanorods 

Currently: Assistant Professor, Rice University Dept of Chemistry

 

      Dr. Christy F. Landes, PhD graduate

Thesis: The dependence of the opto-electronic properties of cadmium selenide nanoparticles on surface properties

Currently: Assistant Professor, Rice University Dept of Chemistry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current Undergraduate Researchers:

                                              

                            Past Undergraduate Researchers:

Matthew Kiefer (Georgia Tech)

Nathaniel Bloodworth (Georgia Tech)

                           Lauren Tankesley (Georgia Tech) 

Omar Delannoy Bruno (U. of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, NSF-REU) 

Rachel Givens (Georgia Tech)

                             Katarina Murphy (NSF-REU)

                             Dawn (NSF-REU)