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Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Staff

This page lists all the current staff members of the CNST, including federal employees and long-term and short-term researchers working on site at the CNST through a variety of arrangements (both formal and informal).


Jump to a Section:

♦  Management  ♦  Project Leaders  ♦  Visiting Fellows and Adjunct Researchers 
♦  Postdoctoral Researchers  ♦  Student Researchers and Research Assistants  ♦  NanoFab Staff 
♦  Administrative Support Staff  ♦  Technical Support Staff

The staff directories for each CNST group can be found at the Group Staff Pages:
♦  Electron Physics Group  ♦  Energy Research Group  ♦  Nanofabrication Research Group
♦  NanoFab Operations Group

A list of former CNST staff can be found here.


Management


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Robert Celotta, Director
Robert Celotta is the current and founding Director of NIST’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. He received his B.S. in Physics from the City College of New York, and his Ph.D. in Physics from New York University. more...

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Lloyd Whitman, Deputy Director
Lloyd Whitman joined the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology as the Deputy Director in April 2008. He received a B.S. in Physics from Brown University (with honors, magna cum laude), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics more...

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J. Alexander Liddle, Group Leader
J. Alexander Liddle is the Group Leader of the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He received his B.A. and D. Phil. degrees in Materials Science from the University of Oxford. more...

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Vincent Luciani, NanoFab Manager
Vincent Luciani is the CNST NanoFab Manager. He joined CNST in November of 2008 with over 30 years of private industry experience. more...

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Jabez McClelland, Group Leader
Jabez McClelland is the Group Leader of the CNST Electron Physics Group. He received a B.A. in Physics and Music from Wesleyan University, and M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. more...

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Nikolai Zhitenev, Group Leader
Nikolai Zhitenev is the Group Leader of the CNST Energy Research Group.  He received a M.S. degree in Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (with honors, eq. summa cum laude) more...

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Donna Lauren, Senior Management Advisor
Donna Lauren is the Senior Management Advisor for CNST. She has a B.S. in Organizational Management from Columbia Union College. Prior to joining CNST, Donna served as a Lead Administrative Officer more...



Research Staff

Project Leaders

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Vladimir Aksyuk, Project Leader
Vladimir Aksyuk is a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and a Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers University. more...

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Rachel Cannara, Project Leader
Rachel Cannara is a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research Group in the CNST. She received a B.S. in Physics with Highest Honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where her scholarship was recognized more...

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Gregg Gallatin, Project Leader
Gregg Gallatin is a Project Leader in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Penn State. After his Ph.D., he worked in academia for several years more...

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Paul Haney, Project Leader
Paul Haney is a Project Leader in the Energy Research Group in the CNST. He received a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin. more...

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Henri Lezec, Project Leader
Henri Lezec is a Project Leader in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. more...

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Robert D. McMichael, Project Leader
Robert (Bob) McMichael is a Project Leader in the Electron Physics Group in the CNST. He received a B.S. in Engineering-Physics from Pacific Lutheran University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ohio State University. more...

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Fred Sharifi, Project Leader
Fred Sharifi is a Project Leader in the Energy Research Group in the CNST. He received a B.S. in Physics (magna cum laude) from the University of Illinois, where he continued his graduate education and received a Ph.D. more...

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Renu Sharma, Project Leader
Dr. Renu Sharma is a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research Group. She received a B.S. and B.Ed. in Physics and Chemistry from Panjab University, India, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Solid State Chemistry from more...

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Kartik Srinivasan, Project Leader
Kartik Srinivasan is a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. more...

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Mark D. Stiles, Project Leader/NIST Fellow
Mark Stiles is a Project Leader and NIST Fellow in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from Yale University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Cornell University. more...

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Joseph A. Stroscio, Project Leader/NIST Fellow
Dr. Stroscio is a Project Leader and NIST Fellow in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He joined NIST in 1987 after completing a two year post-doctoral appointment more...

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Veronika Szalai, Project Leader
Veronika Szalai is a Project Leader in the Energy Research Group. She received an A.B. in Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College, and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Yale University. Her thesis work more...

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John Unguris, Project Leader
John Unguris is a Project Leader in the Electron Physics Research Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin. more...


Visiting Fellows and Adjunct Researchers

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Amit Agrawal, CNST Visiting Fellow
Amit Agrawal is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Nanofabrication Research Group and John E. and Patricia Breyer Professor in Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Syracuse University. He received more...

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Andrea Centrone, CNST Visiting Fellow
Andrea Centrone is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Energy Research Group and a Visiting Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Research Electronics and Applied Physics of the University of Maryland. more...

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Brian Dennis, CNST Visiting Fellow
Brian Dennis is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Nanofabrication Research Group and a Research Associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University.  He received a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics more...

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C. Stephen Hellberg, CNST Visiting Fellow
C. Stephen Hellberg is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group, on sabbatical leave from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. Stephen received an A.B. in Physics from Princeton more...

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Andrei Kolmakov, CNST Visiting Fellow
Andrei Kolmakov is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Energy Research Group and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC) more...
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Paul Morton, CNST Visiting Fellow
Paul Morton is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He is CEO, CTO, and founder of Morton Photonics, where he leads research programs on silicon photonics devices and ultra-low-noise lasers more...

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Daniel Pierce, CNST Visiting Fellow/NIST Fellow (Emeritus)
Daniel Pierce is a CNST Visiting Fellow working in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University, a M.A. in Physics from Wesleyan University (CT), and a Ph.D. more...

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Mihaela Tanase, CNST Visiting Fellow
Mihaela Tanase is a CNST Visiting Fellow in the Nanofabrication Research Group, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics of more...

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Erich Walter, CNST Adjunct Researcher
Erich Walter is a CNST Adjunct Researcher in the Energy Research Group and a Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.  Erich received an A.B. in Chemistry and Physics  more...


Postdoctoral Researchers

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Imad Agha, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Imad Agha is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut, Lebaonon and a Ph.D. in more...

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Serkan Ates is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B. Sc. in Physics from the Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey and M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in more...
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Andrew Balk, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Andrew Balk is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from Penn State. His graduate research used low-temperature Hall effect measurements more...

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Hongwoo Baek, CNST/SNU Postdoctoral Researcher
Hongwoo Baek is a CNST/SNU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group.  She received a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from Seoul National University, Korea.  Her doctoral research used scanning probe microscopy techniques to study monolayer and bilayer graphene more... 
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Christopher Bohn, NRC Postdoctoral Researcher
Christopher Bohn is a NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Energy Research Group.  He received his B.S.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University more...

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Sam Bowden, NRC Postdoctoral Researcher
Sam Bowden is a NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences with more...

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Jungseok Chae, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Jungseok Chae is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D. in Physics from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. For his doctoral more...

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Marcelo Davanço, CNST/Caltech Postdoctoral Researcher
Marcelo Davanço is a CNST/Caltech Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil more...

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Feng Guo, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Feng Guo is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.A. in Physics from Fudan University, China, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Minnesota more...

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Jeonghoon Ha, CNST/SNU Postdoctoral Researcher
Jeonghoon Ha is a CNST/SNU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group.  He received a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics from Seoul National University. more...

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Myung-Gyu Kang, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Myung-Gyu Kang is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kyungpook National University in Korea more...

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Aaron Katzenmeyer, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Aaron Katzenmeyer is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University; a M.S. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology more...

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Robert Adam Kinney, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Robert Adam Kinney is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. Adam received a B. A. in Chemistry from Bowdoin College and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Northwestern University. more...

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Brenton Knuffman, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Brenton Knuffman is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from Loyola University Chicago and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics more...

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Seung-Hyeon (Sarah) Ko, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Seung-Hyeon (Sarah) Ko is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from more...

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John Kohoutek, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
John Kohoutek is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering more...

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Basudev Lahiri is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India, and a Ph.D. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from more...
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Thomas Lam is a CNST Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Ceramic Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in Ceramics from Alfred University. more...
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Youngmin Lee is a NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Energy Research Group. She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Korea University, Seoul, Korea, and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from more...
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Marina Leite is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics more...
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Niv Levy, NRC Postdoctoral Researcher
Niv Levy is a NRC Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group. He received B.A. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. more...

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Pin Ann Lin, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Pin Ann Lin is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. She received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan more...

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Yuxiang Liu, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Yuxiang Liu is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Precision Machinery and Instrumentation from the University of Science more...

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Christian Long, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Christian Long is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park more...

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Lamar Mair, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Lamar Mair is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Flordia and a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences and more...

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Matthieu Picher, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Matthieu Picher is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Paul-Verlaine University, France, and a M.S. in Material Science and Ph.D. in Physics more...

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Adrian Popescu, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Adrian Popescu is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Bucharest, Romania and a Ph. D. in Applied Physics from the University of South Florida more...

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Dmitry Ruzmetov, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Dmitry (Dima) Ruzmetov is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. He received a Diploma in Physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia more...

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Adam Steele, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Adam Steele is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from Carnige-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology more...

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Michael Stocker, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Michael Stocker is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group.  He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Wheaton College (Illinois) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Maryland College Park. more...
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Kevin Twedt, CNST/UMD Postdoctural Researcher
Kevin Twedt is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Northern Iowa and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. more...
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Ting Xu, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Ting Xu is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. in Optical Engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications more...

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Heayoung Yoon, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Heayoung Yoon is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. She received her B. S. and M. S. in Physics in Korea from Chungnam National University and Pohang more...

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Duming Zhang, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Duming Zhang is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. He received a B.S. in Applied Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Penn State.  more...

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Hongtao Zhang, CNST/UMASS Postdoctoral Researcher
Hongtao Zhang is a CNST/UMASS Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Shanghai more...

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Tong Zhang, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Tong Zhang is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from Shandong University, China, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute of Physics at the Chinese more...

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Yue Zhao, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Yue Zhao is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Energy Research Group. She received a B. S. in Material Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph. D. in Physics from Columbia University more...

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Jie Zou, CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher
Jie Zou is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group.  He received a B.S. in Physics from Peking University, China and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Florida more...


Student Researchers and Research Assistants

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Sarice Barkley, CNST/UMD Research Assistant
Sarice Barkley is a CNST/UMD Research Assistant in the Nanofabrication Research Group. She recently received her B.S. in Physics at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.  Sarice is working with Rachel Cannara and Fred Sharifi building a catalyst evaporation system for the growth of carbon nanotubes to be used in nanocarbon composites.

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Anthony Gianfrancesco, Graduate Student Researcher
Anthony Gianfrancesco is a Graduate Student Researcher in the Energy Research Group.  He recently received a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute more...
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Amanda Huon, CNST/UMD Research Assistant
Amanda Huon is a CNST/UMD Research Assistant in the Energy Research Group.   She recently received a B.S in Physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.  Amanda is working with Fred Sharifi growing well-characterized carbon nanotube samples for use in a project analyzing carbon nanocomposites.

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Eugene Kim, Undergraduate Researcher
Eugene Kim is an Undergraduate Researcher in the Energy Research Group and is majoring in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan.  Eugene is working with Veronika Szalai measuring the effects of surface treatments on the performance of iron oxide photoanodes in photoelectrochemical water splitting processes.

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Thomas Michels, Graduate Student Researcher
Thomas Michels is a Graduate Student Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group, and a doctoral candidate in Physics at the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.  more...

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Nusrat Molla, Student Researcher
Nusrat Molla is a Student Researcher in the Energy Research Group, and a student in the Global Ecology Magnet program at Poolesville High School. Nusrat is working with Nikolai Zhitenev and Heayoung Yoon on the characterization and automated measurement of photovoltaic devices through programming.

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Paul Patrone, CNST/UMD Graduate Student Researcher
Paul Patrone is a CNST/UMD Graduate Student Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research group. He received his B.A. from St. John's College and is currently pursuing his M.S. in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Physics more...

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Boda Song, Undergraduate Researcher
Boda (Becky) Song is a Undergraduate Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group. She recently graduated from the Magnet International Baccalaureate Program at Richard Montgomery High School, and will attend Vanderbilt University, where she plans on double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, Health and Society. Becky is working with Rachel Cannara on constructing an atomic force microscope, as well as programming and performing dielectric constant measurements as a function of temperature.

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Kohei Ueda, Graduate Student Researcher
Kohei Ueda is a Graduate Student Researcher in the Electron Physics Group, and a doctoral candidate in Chemistry at Kyoto University, Japan. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Ritsumeikan University more...



NanoFab Staff

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James Bittner, Engineering Technician
James Bittner is an Engineering Technician in the Nanofabrication Operations Group. He has a B.S. in Physics from Longwood University more...

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Jerry Bowser, Process Engineer
Jerry Bowser is a Process Engineer for the CNST NanoFab Operations Group. Jerry has over 13 years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing engineering in the private sector more...

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Marc Cangemi, Process Engineer
Marc Cangemi is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group, where he is responsible for training and process support for NanoFab users in various nanofabrication areas, including optical photolithography, metrology, more...

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Lei Chen, Process Engineer
Lei Chen is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group. He received a Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering
from Nanjing University in China, and then joined the university's staff as an Associate Professor.. more...

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Gerard Henein, Process Engineer
Gerard Henein is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science from Northwestern University. more...

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Richard Kasica, Process Engineer
Richard Kasica is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group. Richard received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the Ohio State University and an M.S. in Applied Physics from SUNY-Binghamton. more...

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Alline Myers, Process Engineer
Alline Myers is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group. She received a B.S. in Physics from North Carolina State University, an M.S. in Physics from Penn State, and a Ph.D. in more...

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Robert Newby, Process Engineer
Robert Newby is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he minored in more...

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Matthew Robinson, Engineering Technician
Matthew Robinson is an Engineering Technician in the NanoFab Operations Group. He is currently attending Montgomery County Community College, with plans to pursue a career in electronics. While in college, more...

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Joshua Schumacher, Process Engineer
Joshua Schumacher is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF), where he also received a certificate in more...

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Kerry Siebein, Process Engineer
Kerry Siebein is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group. She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering more...

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Liya Yu, Process Engineer
Liya Yu is a Process Engineer in the NanoFab Operations Group. She received a B.S. in Material Science from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and more...


Support Staff

Administrative

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Robert Rudnitsky, Scientific Advisor
Robert Rudnitsky is the Scientific Advisor for CNST. Robert has a B.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University where he was a Hertz Fellow. At Stanford more...

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Karen Haugh, Administrative Officer
Karen Haugh is the Administrative Officer for the CNST. She has worked for NIST for 28 years. Prior to joining the CNST, Karen worked for 18 years as the AO for the Electron and Optical Physics Division more...

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Kristen Dill, Visual Information Specialist
Kristen Dill is a Visual Information Specialist for the CNST.  She has a B.S. in Horticulture from Iowa State University and nearly two decades of experience in graphic arts and design. more...

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Amanda Dyson, Administrative Support Assistant
Amanda Dyson is the Administrative Support Assistant for the CNST Energy Research Group. She attends Frederick Community College and has previously worked at retail organizations. more...

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Teresa Figgs, Administrative Support Assistant
Teresa Figgs is the Administrative Support Assistant for the Electron Physics Group. Prior to joining the CNST, she worked in the NIST mailroom, and served for 15 years with the United States Postal Service. more...

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Matthew Gonzales, Administrative Support Assistant
Matthew Gonzales is an Administrative Support Assistant in the CNST. He has a B.S. in Sports Management from Springfield College and an M.S. in Sports Leadership from Duquesne University more...

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Amy Grafmuller, Executive Assistant to the Director and Deputy Director
Amy Grafmuller is the Executive Assistant to the Director and Deputy Director. Prior to joining the CNST, she worked as the Division Secretary for the Analytical more...

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Wade Hall, Facility User Coordinator
Wade Hall is the Facility User Coordinator at the CNST. He has a B.S. in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix. more...

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Yeehing Lam, Administrative Support Assistant
Yeehing Lam is the Administrative Support Assistant for the Nanofabrication Research Group. She has a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Maryland. more...

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Luanne Mehelich, Administrative Support Assistant
Luanne Mehelich is an Administrative Support Assistant in the CNST. Prior to joining NIST, she worked in the Administration Department at General Motors Truck and Bus Engineering. more...

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Jeff Pasternak, Facility User Coordinator
Jeff Pasternak is the Facility User Coordinator at the CNST. He has a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining NIST, Jeff worked in customer service for private industry more...

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Denise Rogers, Administrative Specialist for Information Management
Denise Rogers began her career at NIST as the Group Secretary for the Electron Physics Group in CNST, becoming the Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director of CNST in May 2008. In November 2010, she more...

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Kirsten Sisson, Visual Information Specialist
Kirsten Sisson is a Visual Information Specialist for the CNST. She has experience working in graphic design, web layout, videography and photography in the United States Air Force. more...


Technical


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Alan Band, Electronics Engineer
Alan Band is an Electronics Engineer in the Electron Physics Group. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and an Associates degree in Bio-Medical Instrumentation Technology more...

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Neal Bertrand, PowerTek IT Specialist
Neal Bertrand is an IT Specialist from PowerTek Corporation working under contract in the Electron Physics Group for NIST’s Office of Information Systems Management (OISM). more...

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Steve Blankenship, Instrumentation Specialist
Steve Blankenship is an Instrumentation Specialist in the Electron Physics Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Mary Washington, and a M.S. degree in Physics from Virginia Commonwealth University more...

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Barbara Coalmon, IT Specialist
Barbara Coalmon is an IT Specialist in the Electron Physics Group. She has a B.S. in Computer Studies from the University of Maryland University College, College Park, MD. more...

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Russell Hajdaj, Safety Officer and Property Manager
Russell Hajdaj is the CNST Safety Officer and Property Manager. He initially joined NIST as a Facility Manager working for the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory more...

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Glenn Holland, Instrumentation Specialist
Glenn Holland is an Instrumentation Specialist in the Electron Physics Group. Glenn has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland College Park. Prior to joining the CNST in 2009, Glenn spent 22 years more...

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Dylan Klomparens, IT Specialist
Dylan Klomparens is an IT Specialist in the Electron Physics Group. He has an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to joining the CNST, he worked for Hughes Network Systems more...

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Mathieu Rampant, Prometheus IT Specialist
Mathieu Rampant is an IT Specialist from Prometheus Computing LLC working under contract in the Electron Physics Group. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the more...

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David Rutter, Electronics Technician
David Rutter is an Electronics Technician in the Electron Physics Group. He has an Associate degree in Electronics and Computer Technology from Electronic Institutes, Middletown, PA. David has over 10 years of experience more...

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Bruce Stark, PowerTek IT Specialist
Bruce Stark is an IT Specialist from PowerTek Corporation working under contract in the Electron Physics Group for NIST’s Office of Information Systems Management (OISM). Bruce is a Certified Microsoft Office Specialist more...