Faculty

 

Sean O’Malley

Email/Web
Office:
CNS 216F
Phone: (856) 225-6159

Department Chair and Associate Professor

B.S., Seton Hall University, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology 

Research Interests: Laser-material interactions, Pulsed Laser Ablation in Liquids (PLAL), laser-based nanoparticle synthesis techniques, nano-scale multiferroics.  

Grace Brannigan

Email/Web
Office:
JHSC 213
Phone: (856) 225-6780

Professor

B.A., Reed College, Ph.D., University of California – Santa Barbara

Research Interests: Computational biophysics, particularly dynamics of ion channels and other signaling proteins, as well as free energies of ligand-protein interactions. 

Hong Fang

Email/Web
Office:
JHSC 120
Phone: TBA

Assistant Professor

B.S., East China Normal University and Bielefeld Universität, Ph.D., Tongji University and University of Cambridge  

Research Interests: Computational design, development, and understanding of advanced materials and interfaces for renewable energy and sustainability. 

Julie Griepenburg

Email/Web
Office:
CNS 216E
Phone: (856) 225-6293

Assistant Professor

B.S., Seton Hall University, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Nanoparticle functionalization and light-activation.

Hunter King

Email
Office:
JHSC 216D
Phone: 856-225-6781

Assistant Professor

B.S. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, M.S. Bogazici University, Istanbul, PhD University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Research Interests:

Mechanics of structures engineered by plants and animals; non-equilibrium and soft matter physics; open-source instrumentation for table-top experiment and field measurement.
 
Jiantao Kong

Email
Office:
CNS 216G
Phone: (856) 225-6294

Assistant Teaching Professor

B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D., Boston College

Research Interests: Computational Condensed Matter Physics, particularly Plasmonics and Electron-Phonon Interactions.

 
Cory Trout

Email
Office:
 CNS 216C
Phone: (856) 225-2930

Assistant Teaching Professor, Lab Coordinator

B.S., Rutgers University-Camden, M.S., Rutgers University-Newark

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Affiliated Faculty

Jinglin Fu

Email/Web
Office:
JHSC 120
Phone: (856) 225-6612

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

B.S., M.S., Zhejiang University, Ph.D., Arizona State University

Research Interests: Bionanotechnology, Biocatalysis and Spatially Interactive Biomolecular Networks. 

Guillaume Lamoureux

Email/Web
Office: JHSC 216C
Phone:
(856) 225-6267

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

B.Sc., Université Laval, M.Sc., Université de Sherbrooke, Ph.D., Université de Montréal

Research Interests: Molecular modeling & recognition, enzyme catalysis, membrane transport computational biophysics, machine learning.

Eric Klein

Email/Web
Office:
JHSC 215B
Phone: (856) 225-6335

Associate Professor, Department of Biology

B.A., B.S., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Bacterial pathogenesis and microbial adhesion.

David Salas-de la Cruz

Email/Web
Office: SCI?
Phone:
(856) 225-6147

 

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

B.S., University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, M.S., Villanova University, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests: Biomaterials (polysaccharides and proteins), ionic liquids, morphology, X-ray scattering, biobatteries, scaffolds, filtration membranes.

 

Adjunct Faculty

Jerry Gambs

Email/Web
Fax:
(856) 225-6624

Part-time Lecturer

B.S.M.E., Villanova University, M.S.M.S., Villanova University

 

Administrative Staff

Kelly Esterly

Office: BSB 322
Email: kelly.esterly@rutgers.edu
Phone: (856) 225-6077

Departmental Secretary