Recent Graduates

19-Apr-2024 Manipulating Flow Rate and Ionic Conductivity in Unconfined Melt Electrospinning and the Effect on Fiber and Spinning Morphology. Brenton Boland Ph.D. (Clarke/Bochinski) Postdoc NC State
15-Aug-2023 Identifying Precursors of Creeping Landslides through Remote Sensing and Network Science. Vrinda Desai Ph.D. (Daniels) Postdoc North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
07-Dec-2022 Structure, Stability, and Dynamics of Select Nucleic Acids Associated with Neurodegenerative Diseases. Ashkan Fakharzadeh-Ghaan (a.k.a Ashkan Fakharzadeh) Ph.D. (Roland/Sagui)  
20-Jul-2022 Modeling and Understanding Pathogenic Trinucleotide Repeats and Related Proteins. Jiahui Zhang Ph.D. (Roland/Sagui) Returned to China
30-Sep-2022 Dynamic Slippage of Mutagenic Trinucleotide Repeat DNA Revealed by Single Molecule FRET. Pengning Xu Ph.D. (Weninger) Postdoc at UNC
29-Sep-2022 Theoretical Simulations of Nanostructured Materials. Hancheng Qin Ph.D. (Bernholc) ASML
03-Nov-2022 Near-Field Interferometry based on Subwavelength Aperture and its Application in Small Particle Detection. Abbas Ghaffariesfehani Ph.D. (Riehn) Postdoc NC State
01-Nov-2022 Microtubule Bundle Structure and Mechanics: From Mammals to Yeasts. Marcus Begley Ph.D. (Elting) Postdoc Rutgers University
21-Jun-2022 Failure and Flow in Sheared Granular Materials. Farnaz Fazelpour Ph.D. (Daniels) Postdoc at UNC
21-Jun-2022 Protein-induced DNA Conformation Changes under Nanoconfinement. Ming Liu Ph.D. (Riehn) Postdoc Columbia University
29-Mar-2022 Influence of Ionic Conductivity on Unconfined Melt Electrospinning of Thermoplastics. Neelam Sheoran Ph.D. (Clarke/Bochinski) ASM
24-Mar-2022 Instabilities in Oxidizing Liquid Eutectic Gallium-Indium. Keith Hillaire Ph.D. (Daniels) Northrop Grumman
04-Jul-2021 Mechanics and Dynamics in Soft Matter Systems: from Microscopy to Bulk Phenomena across Multiple Time Scales. Shih-Yuan Chen Ph.D. (Daniels) Postdoc Duke University
21-Jul-2020 Mechanisms of Dielectric Enhancement in Innovative Polymeric Metamaterials. Bing Zhang Ph.D. (Bernholc) Wells Fargo
24-Jul-2019 Morphology, Chemistry and Domain Studies of Disparate Mesoscale Organic Systems: Patterned Conjugated Polymers and Preserved Ancient Molecules. Brandon Long Ph.D. (Hallen) Exponent
04-Nov-2019 Nanoplumbing for a Single Molecule Study of DNA. Saroj Dangi Ph.D. (Riehn) Intel Corporation
29-May-2019 Flow-stabilized Solids: From Colloids to Bacteria Scott M. Lindauer Ph.D. (Daniels/Riehn) SAS
21-Mar-2019 Single Molecule Study of DNA Mismatch Repair Pengyu Hao Ph.D. (Weninger) Nautilus Biotechnology
03-Nov-2017 Structure, Stability, and Dynamics of Select DNA and RNA Double Helices: Trinucleotide Repeats and Ion Distributions. Feng Pan Ph.D. (Sagui/Roland) Insilicom
28-Oct-2016 Single Particle Investigations of the Photophysics and Applications of Upconversion Nanoparticles. Kory Kevin Green Ph.D. (Lim) Meta
18-Oct-2016 Structural Characterization of Various Peptides and Nucleotides Associated with Neurodegenerative Diseases. Yuan Zhang Ph.D. (Sagui/Roland) Ford Motor Company
21-Jun-2016 Single-Molecule Studies of Sequence and Structure Dependent DNA Binding by SA1 and SA2. Preston James Countryman Ph.D. (Wang) Buffalo Business Solutions LLC
21-Mar-2016 Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Nanoconfined DNA. Zubair Azad Ph.D. (Riehn) World Economic Forum
10-Mar-2016 First-principles Investigations of Enzymatic Function, Molecular Sensors and Electrical Monitoring of DNA Replication Yan Li Ph.D. (Bernholc) Wells Fargo
28-Oct-2015 Dynamics of DNA Looping in Nanochannels. Maedeh Heidarpourroushan (a.k.a. Maedeh Roshan) Ph.D. (Riehn) Revvity
07-May-2015 Surfactant Dynamics: Spreading and Wave Induced Dynamics of a Monolayer. Stephen Lee Strickland Ph.D. (Daniels) Samford University
25-Mar-2014 Free Energy and Structural Characteristics of Proline-rich Peptides with Distributed Multiple Guests. Tianchi Chen M.Sc. (Roland/Sagui) Merck
28 Feb 2014 First-principles Studies of Conformation and Solution Effects on DNA Transport. Bikan Tan Ph.D. (Bernholc) MicroStrategy
12-Mar-2013 Physics and Application of Nanofluidic Systems. Alena Karpusenka Ph.D. (Riehn) VitalSource and William Peace University
07-Feb-2013 Spectroscopic Enhancement Utilizing Nanoscale Metallic Structures: Bow-tie Antenna and Shell Cavity. Ling Li Ph.D. (Hallen/Riehn)
16-Jul-2012 DNA Manipulation in Microfluidic Devices. Chunda Zhou Ph.D. (Riehn) Reexen Technology
17-Oct-2012 Dynamics of DNA Mismatch Repair Initiation Complexes Revealed by Single Molecule Fluorescence. Ruoyi Qiu Ph.D. (Weninger) Stanford University School of Medicine
04-Nov-2011 Free Energy and Structure of Helix-forming Peptides: A Theoretical Investigation. Vadzim Karpusenka Ph.D. (Sagui/Roland) Intel Corporation
15-Mar-2011 Free Energies, Transition Mechanisms, and Structural Characteristics of Proline-Rich Peptides. Mahmoud Moradi PhD (Roland/Sagui) University of Arkansas
02-Nov-2010 Detecting the Conformation of Individual Proteins in Live Cells using Single Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer. John Sakon Ph.D. (Weninger) UCLA Department of Neurosurgery
16-Jul-2010 Single molecule fluorescence reveals dynamic structures of SNARE protein assemblies Ucheor B. Choi (a.k.a Brandon Choi) Ph.D. (Weninger) Quantum-Si
15-Apr-2009 A fluorescence microscopy study of the dynamics of low-pH triggered Membrane Fusion Laura Wessels PhD (Weninger) Xavier University
16-Jul-2009 The Nanofluidic Analysis of Chromatin Diana Elisabeth Streng M.sc. (Riehn) BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc
21-Jul-2008 Effects of Photobleaching on Membrane Fusion and Infectivity of Dye Labeled Sindbis Virus Wor Thongthai M.sc. (Weninger) StartEngine