Research Interests
transport in nanopores, thermopower waves for energy generation, exciton engineering for solar energy, nanosensors for reaction network analysis
Education
Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2002
B.S., Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 1997
Publications
Honors and Awards
AIChE’s Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering, 2019
Bose Research Grant Award, 2017
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2017
World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds list, Thomson Reuters, 2016
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher, 2015
Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10’, 2009
American Institute of Chemical Engineering, Colburn Award, 2008
Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Award, 2008
Colburn Memorial Lectureship, University of Delaware, 2008
Outstanding Investigator Award, Materials Research Society, 2008
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2008
National Academy of Engineers, Frontiers of Engineering Invitee, 2007
American Chemical Society Unilever Award for Colloidal Science, 2007
Henry and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2007
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2006
Collaboration Success Award, Council of Chemical Research, 2006
Beckman Young Investor Award, 2006
3M Untenured Faculty Award, 2006
Coblentz Award for Molecular Spectroscopy, Coblentz Society, 2006
Young Investigator Award, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum, AIChE, 2006
Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, ESI/Web of Science, 2005
National Science Foundation Career Award, 2005
Top Young Innovator Award, MIT Technology Review, 2005
DuPont Young Investigator Award, 2004
Most significant advances of 2003
C&EN, 2004