M. Selim Ünlü, Boston University

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics at Boston University. He is also serving as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs as well as the Associate Director of Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology. Prof. Ünlü received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1986, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Dr. Ünlü's career interests are in the areas of nanophotonics and biophotonics. Currently, he is working on high-resolution solid immersion lens microscopy of semiconductor devices and circuits, as well as biosensor fabrication and development of biological imaging techniques, particularly in high-throughput, label-free microarrays.

Dr. Ünlü was awarded National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award in 1993, United Nations TOKTEN award in 1995 and 1996, and both the National Science Foundation CAREER and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards in 1996. He has authored and co-authored over 250 technical articles and several book chapters and magazine articles; edited one book; and holds several patents. His professional service includes the former chair of photodetectors and imaging, founding chair of Nanophotonics, and current chair of Biophotonics technical committees for IEEE Photonics Society, and Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. Dr. Ünlü has been selected as an IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2005-2007 and Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network (ARCNN) Distinguished Lecturer for 2007. He has been elevated to IEEE Fellow rank in 2007 for his contributions to optoelectronic devices. In 2008, he was awarded the Science Award by the Turkish Scientific Foundation.

Joseph Michael, Sandia National Laboratories

Senior Scientist in the Materials and Process Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Previously, he was employed as a Senior Research Engineer at Bethlehem Steel’s Homer Research Laboratory. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Joe’s research interests involve the application of advanced electron microscopies and ion beam techniques to the study of materials. He has published many papers in the areas of technique development and application of electron microscopy to materials.

Carlee Ashley, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore

Carlee Ashley received her B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Mexico. She joined Sandia National Labs in 2010 as a Harry S. Truman Fellow and was recently appointed as a member of the UNM Cancer Center. Her research focuses on medical and biodefense applications of nanomaterials, with emphasis on (1) development of complex random peptide libraries displayed on virus-like particles for use in rapid vaccine development and (2) use of nanoporous particle-supported lipid bilayers for targeted delivery of therapeutics and diagnostics to cancer, virally-infected cells, and pathogenic bacteria. Carlee is first author of several publications, incuding articles featured on the cover of Nature Materials in May 2011 and ACS Nano in July 2011. Her awards and honors include: Outstanding Graduate Student Award (UNM, 2010), Michael Gallegos $25K Prize for Entrepreneurship (UNM Technology Business Plan Competition, 2010), Materials Research Society Graduate Student Medal (Fall 2009 meeting), and numerous prizes for oral and poster presentations given at international technical conferences.

Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois

Prof. Bhargava is at the Department of Bioengineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois. He also serves as Associate Director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center and maintains laboratories in the Mills Breast Cancer Institute. He has pioneered the development of infrared spectroscopic imaging with studies in novel instrumentation, theory, data analysis and applications in polymer, biomedical and forensics applications.

Jason Huang, Carl Zeiss NTS, LLC.

Jason Huang is a senior applications specialist of Carl Zeiss NTS division, North America, responsible for customer applications support, applications development for FIB and Field Emission SEM, and technical presentations/demonstrations. Jason received his PhD in Materials Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has 20+ peer-reviewed publications on materials science and microscopy characterization. Prior to Zeiss, Jason was with the Dow Chemical Company core R&D division, in charge of high resolution analytical TEM facility.

Frederic Zenhausern, University of Arizona

Dr. Zenhausern has an Endowed Chair Full Professorship at the Basic Medical Sciences Department at the College of Medicine, Phoenix, and he is the founder Director of the Center for Applied Nanobioscience and Medicine (ANBM), both at the University of Arizona (UofA). Prior to join the University of Arizona, Dr. Zenhausern was founder director of the Center for Applied Nanobioscience at the Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, and co-founder and R & D director of the first phase of the Center for Flexible Display and then MacroTechnology Works. Zenhausern was also tenured Professor with both the Electrical Department and the School of Materials at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering.

Dr. Zenhausern is Professor and Associate Director of Molecular Diagnostics and Target Validation Division at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Dr. Zenhausern is also director of the Laboratory for Research in Personalized Medicine at the Scottsdale Clinical Research Institute at Scottsdale Healthcare. Dr. Zenhausern also serves on a few corporate scientific boards and international consortia in life sciences.

Zenhausern received his B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Geneva, his M.B.A. in finance from Rutgers University and his Doctorate Es Science in Applied Physics from the department of Condensed Physics Matter at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Zenhausern has co-authored more than 70 scientific publications and published more than a dozen of U.S. patents.

Zenhausern has held several corporate research positions, including: Visiting Scientist (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY), Head of Physical Measurements Group (Firmenich Inc., NJ), Vice President Advanced Technology (Alpha-MOS America, Inc., NJ) and Manager of Microdevice Physics (Motorola Labs, AZ).

Donna Guarrera, JEOL USA, Inc.

Prior to joining JEOL in 2002, she spent over 15 years as an Analytical and Research Chemist in industry with extensive experience in R&D, product development and manufacturing across a broad range of industries including Duracell, Gillette and Polaroid.

Donna is currently the Assistant Director of the SM Division at JEOL USA and is here to give us a brief introduction to the ClairScopeTM.