Biographies - NCI-NSF Training Grants
Diana Huffaker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Center for High Technology Materials
University of New Mexico
Diana Huffaker received her B.S. degree in engineering physics from University of Arizona and an M.S. in materials science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. From 1995 - 2000, she held postdoctoral and research scientist appointments at UT/Austin. She was employed as a senior research scientist at Picolight, Inc. in 2000.
Huffaker joined the University of New Mexico in 2001 as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Her research interests include physical mechanisms of self-assembly, characterization of novel materials including quantum dots and the physics of nanostructures. She was the recipient of the 2004 Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship to study quantum dot light emitters at Technical University Berlin. She was awarded the 2002 Compound Semiconductor International Symposium Young Scientist Award for developments in novel quantum dot and selectively oxidized optoelectronic materials and devices.
Huffaker has co-authored over 110 refereed journal publications and two book chapters. She has two patents with four disclosures pending and has reported her work through many invited presen tations. She is an active participant in the technical community with appointments in IEEE/LEOS, SPIE, WISE, MRS, OSA and TMS.
Fernando J. Muzzio, Ph.D.
Professor
Rutgers University
Professor Muzzio obtained his Ph.D. (1991) in Chemical Engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, focusing on mixing processes. He is currently a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rutgers University. For the last 14 years, pharmaceutical product and process design has been Professor Muzzio’s main research and educational focus. Professor Muzzio’s research focuses on flow and mixing of liquids and liquid, powder flow and mixing, and more recently, powder constitutive behavior (cohesion, shear-induced dilation).
Since joining Rutgers university, he has received federal and industrial funding in excess to $15 million. He is the author of over 120 peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, and patents, and several hundred lectures at technical conferences, companies, and universities in areas relevant to the pharmaceutical industry. He is a consultant to most major pharmaceutical companies, as well as a number of petroleum, chemical, food, equipment, and instrumentation companies.
In 1996, using funding from the NSF, the State of NJ, and a several pharmaceutical companies, he founded the Pharmaceutical Engineering Program at Rutgers University, the first such program in the country. He has directed the program since inception, which has grown steadily under his direction and now comprises 12 faculty members working in an integrated manner in multiple areas of pharmaceutical product and process research and education.
Between 1996 and 2002, Professor Muzzio also directed the Rutgers/NJIT particle processing research center. Professor Muzzio has also developed a strong interaction with the US Food and Drug Administration. Prof. Muzzio has participated in Government-Industry-Academic forums that focused on upgrading the regulations that control drug development. His input is reflected in two recent regulations, the new draft guidance on Blend Homogeneity Characterization, and the final guidance on Process Analytical Technologies, recently issued by the FDA.
He was the academic member of the PQRI Blend Uniformity working group, which was the source of the proposal that was the basis for the current draft guidance on blend and content uniformity issued by FDA in October 2003. He is also actively involved in industry/government forums dealing with the FDA’s PAT initiative. He is also the president of Mixing Consultants Inc, a specialty consulting company providing technical support and training services to pharmaceutical companies in areas of pharmaceutical manufacturing since 1996.
Marjorie Olmstead, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry
Washington University
Marjorie Olmstead is Professor of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she also directs the interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Ph.D. Program. Before joining the UW faculty in 1991, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Between receiving her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley Physics and joining the faculty there, she was a Member of the Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Prof.
Olmstead’s research centers on the formation of interfaces between dissimilar materials and the structural and electronic properties of the resultant nanostructures, with particular interest in materials that add potential optical or magnetic functionality to silicon based systems.
Prof. Olmstead received the 1994 Peter Mark Memorial Award of the American Vacuum Society (now AVS) and the 1996 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award of the American Physical Society (APS), and is a fellow of both the APS and AVS. In 2000 she received an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award.
Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D.
Vice-Provost for Research
Director, Electronic Materials Research Institute
Distinguished Professor of Physics
Northeastern University
Srinivas Sridhar is Vice Provost, and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern University. He is the founding director of the university's Nanomedicine Consortium and director of the Electronic Materials Research Institute. His principal areas of research are Nanomedicine and Nanomaterials, Left-Handed Metamaterials and Quantum Chaos. His recent work on flat lens imaging was listed among Breakthroughs of the Year 2003 by the journal Science. He has more than 122 journal publications and has given 170 invited talks.
Professor Sridhar received his Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology. For more information see sagar.physics.neu.edu, www.nanotech.neu.edu, www.emri.neu.edu.
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