Personnel



Group Leadership

Leadership for the MENT group is provided by a Principal Investigator who is responsible for:
Establishing and managing the research agenda
Forming collaborations
Staff, postdoc, and student recruitment
Infrastructure development
Professional development of junior staff, postdocs and students
Development of an interdisciplinary graduate curriculum in molecular-scale electronics
In addition, we are fortunate to have a distinguished group of collaborators who provide leadership to the MENT group in key areas of science, technology, program and infrastructure development.

Principal Investigator
Michael L. Simpson, Ph.D.

General Advisor
Gary T. Alley

Whole-Cell Biotechnology
Gary S. Sayler, Ph.D.

Material Science
Douglas H. Lowndes, Ph.D.

Biomolecular Nanotechnology
Mitchel Doktycz, Ph.D.

 

Staff Members


Timothy E. McKnight

Anatoli Melechko, Ph.D.

Laura M. Edwards, Ph.D.

Dale Hensley

Richard Kasica

Darrell Thomas

Teri Subich

 

Postdocs, Students & Interns


Michael Allen, Ph.D.

Roy D. Dar

Ben Fletcher

Jason Fowlkes, Ph.D.

Eric D. Hullander

Kate Klein

David Mann

Matthew Musgrave

Diana Peckys, Ph.D.

 

Alumni


Derek W. Austin, Ph.D.

Michael Guillorn, Ph.D.

Mark Hale

Vladimir I. Merkulov, Ph.D.

Xiaojing Yang, Ph.D.

Lan Zhang, Ph.D.

 

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