Physical

Julio C. Alvarez

• Design, fabrication and characterization of electrochemical biosensors built in plastic microfluidic platforms

• Development of chiral nanostructured materials for heterogeneous catalysis

Dusan Bratko

• Theory and modeling of ionic, colloidal and biopolymer solutions

M. Samy El-Shall

• Nucleation phenomena, photo-induced nucleation, molecular clusters, ion equilibria, energetics and solvation in the gas phase, and electronic properties of molecules and clusters

Alenka Luzar

• Computational modeling and statistical mechanics
• Neutron scattering experiments in liquid-condensed matter
• Physical and theoretical chemistry, biophysics and condensed phase chemical dynamics

James Terner

• Time-resolved resonance raman spectroscopy of transients, excited states and chemical intermediates involved in chemical reactions of biological and photochemical significance