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Santiago Correa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
BioSantiago (Santi) is interested in the intersection of materials science and immunotherapy, and is working to develop injectable hydrogels to stimulate the immune system to recognize and eliminate cancer. Santi is especially interested in leveraging the unique drug delivery capabilities provided by such materials systems in order to explore combination immunotherapy and the role of release kinetics on therapeutic efficacy and safety.
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Alexander Giovannitti
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in the development of redox-active polymeric organic semiconductors for energy storage and energy conversion devices. My research vision is to develop affordable, safe, and sustainable devices to pave the way for next-generation, low-carbon technologies.
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Nofar Mintz Hemed
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
BioNofar Hemed received her Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University (Israel) in 2017 for her work on the performance and reliability of Si nanowire-forest structure for biosensor applications. She joined Stanford on September 2017 as a recipient of the prestigious "The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Award", and she is currently working on multi-array for electrochemical brain mapping.
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Armantas Melianas
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
BioArmantas Melianas received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Linköping University (Sweden) in 2017 for his work on time-resolved charge transport in organic solar cells in the groups of Prof. Olle Inganäs and Prof. Martijn Kemerink. He joined Stanford on October 2017 as a recipient of the Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and is currently developing organic electronic materials and devices for applications ranging from solar energy harvesting to brain-inspired (neuromorphic) computing.
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Zihao Ou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
BioMy research interests have been focusing on how individual building blocks come together resulting in complex functions which are hard to predict, if possible, from the individual identities. Similar to a digital screen displaying a movie, the complicated pattern and story can hardly be interpreted from the dynamic traces of a single pixel. Specifically, I have been studying the general topic of self-assembly and non-equilibrium behaviors in soft matter systems, using both experimental and simulation tools.
I obtained my B.S. degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2015. In my undergraduate research, I tried to use computer simulation to study multiple systems in Prof. Zhonghuai Hou’s group, such as the Viscek model for self-propelled particles. In 2014, I visited Oxford University to study the phase behaviors of active nematics using Lattice-Boltzmann method in Prof. Julia M. Yeomans' group. In 2020, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) under the supervision of Prof. Qian Chen. During my Ph.D. research, we illustrated the nonclassical crystallization pathway of nanoparticles (Nat. Mater., 19, 450–455, 2020) and supracrystal growth kinetics (Nat. Commun., 11, 4555, 2020) using liquid-phase TEM. I also studied other nonequilibrium behaviors in novel colloidal systems, such as shape transformation of metal-organic framework crystals during chemical etching (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 48, 40990–40995, 2018), application of ferromagnetic colloids in inductor design (Science Adv., 6, 3, eaay4508, 2020; US Patent App. 16/434,524) and electron transport in redox-active colloids.
In August 2020, I joined Prof. Guosong Hong’s group at the materials science and engineering department at Stanford University to develop novel nanomaterials that can interact with neurons at the subcellular level. Armed with the knowledge of nanotechnology and theoretical modeling, we are extending the tools that can be used to investigate the challenging questions in neuroscience. -
Amr Ahmed Essawi Saleh
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
BioDr. Amr Saleh is a postdoctoral scholar in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University and research director of the Microbial Culture Shift Project - a multidisciplinary project that aims to develop a new platform for rapid point-of-care bacterial infection diagnostics. Dr. Saleh obtained his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University where he designed plasmonic tweezers capable of trapping sub-10nm dielectric particles and developed a novel characterization technique to directly probe the near-field optical forces from those tweezers using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Prior to Stanford, he earned his bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering and master’s degree in engineering physics from Cairo University, Egypt. Dr. Saleh’s research interests center on light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, particularly to develop novel solutions for biological imaging and healthcare applications. He holds several approved and pending patents on plasmonic optical tweezers, bacterial diagnostics, and combined Raman and electron microscopy. He also holds a certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford Graduate School of Business. His innovation in healthcare applications was recognized through the US Falling Walls labs innovation award.
