People

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Nabila Tanjeem

Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton.
Postdoc, University of Colorado, Boulder. (2020-2022)
Ph.D., Applied Physics, Harvard University, 2020.
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, the University of Tokyo, 2013.

Before joining CSUF, Dr. Tanjeem worked on multiple experimental and computational projects involving self-assembly of colloidal particles and active motion of stimuli-responsive microstructures. Here is her google scholar page. As a graduate student, she worked as a teaching consultant and summer school instructor at Harvard University. She speaks Bengali and Japanese. Besides research and teaching, she enjoys nature walks, traveling to new places, and dancing.

Undergraduate students

Ji Woo (Grace) Kim

Grace is a premedical student. She is developing experiment protocols for responsive colloidal particle synthesis.

Christopher Feltman

Chris is an undergraduate mathematics student with an interest in applied math.  He is investigating self-assembly using molecular dynamics simulations.

Jose Lopez-Ceja

Jose is a Mechanical Engineering major investigating photothermal response of gold nanoparticle suspensions and responsive self-assembly with patterned light illumination.

Vanessa Flores

Vanessa is a Mechanical Engineering major studying self-assembly of colloidal crystals and particle crowds using photothermal convection.

Graduate students

SK Tahmid Shahriar

Tahmid is a graduate student working on binary colloidal particle assemblies. His research interests revolve around exploring next-generation materials for sustainable engineering and their potential to contribute to human welfare.

Stephen Smith

Stephen is a graduate student in Physics. He is working on the synthesis and light-responsive self-assembly of microgels.

Gargi Mansingh

Gargi is a graduate student in Physics. Her project involves studying the dynamics of photothermally assembled colloidal crystals and amphiphiles.

Alumni

Sean Machler

Sean graduated with a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Physics in 2023. He developed computational tools for analyzing microscope images of colloidal crystals.

Shirlaine Juliano

Shirlaine graduated from the Biology department in 2023. She worked on the synthesis of gold nanoparticles and light-responsive behavior of amphiphiles.