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Leslie Au was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1982. She received her B.S. degrees in chemistry and biology from the University of Washington in 2005. Leslie is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in chemistry with Professor Younan Xia. She is a recipient of the Early Bird Award and the IGERT Fellowship from the Center for nanotechnology. Her research interests include the synthesis of gold nanostructures and exploration of their applications in biomedical research, electronics, and photonics.

Alejandro Briseno was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received his B.S and M.S from California State University, Los Angeles. In the fall of 2005, he completed his Master’s in chemistry at UCLA with Fred Wudl and co-advised by Zhenan Bao at Stanford. He is currently supported by a fellowship from the Lucent Technologies in support of his Ph.D. study under the supervision of Professor Younan Xia.  He is particularly interested in organic semiconductor nanostructures for their potential applications as the next-generation materials for displays, flexible electronics, and optoelectronic devices.

Claire Cobley was born in Montreal, Canada and grew up in Cary, North Carolina. She graduated in 2006 from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island where she received a B.S. in Chemistry and an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA). She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in the Xia group and was awarded an Early Bird Award to get involved in nanotechnology research during her first year. Her research interests include the synthesis, analysis, and applications of metal nanostructures.

Pedro Camargo was born in Ourinhos, São Paulo, Brazil, in 1981. He moved to Curitiba and began attending Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in 1999. He received his B.S. in chemistry in 2003 and M.S. in chemistry in 2005. Since then, he has joined Professor Younan Xia's group to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research interests include the synthesis of selenium and metal chalcogenide colloidal spheres and their use as building blocks for self-assembly to fabricate photonic crystals; as well as shape-controlled synthesis of magnetic nanostructures.

Eric Formo was born in Heidelberg am nicre Germany. He grew up in Alexandria Virginia, and Greensboro North Carolina. He attended North Carolina State University from 2001-2005, where he received a Honors Degree in chemistry along with the following awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, 2005 Senior Research Award, 2004 Undergraduate Research Award. He also did undergraduate research for the Novak group (redox sensitive polymers), and the Kruse group (rheological characterization of hyaluronic acid derivatives). As a Ph.D. candidate in the Xia group, his research interests include electrospinning, micropatterning, and polymer synthesis, for applications in tissue engineering and controlled release.


Mun Ho Kim joined Xia group in February, 2007. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2001 from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. And he received M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2006) in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, (KAIST), under the supervision of Prof. O Ok Park. Before joining Xia groups, he worked at the Institute of Applied Science, KAIST as a postdoctoral researcher. He is interested in the synthesis of nanostructures with well controlled shapes, as well as the self-assembly of these nanobuilding blocks into functional devices and complex system. His childhood dream was to be a Jedi Knight (Star Wars), and he enjoys going out for walking with listening to music.
 

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Byungkwon Lim was born in Seoul, South Korea. He received his M.S. and Ph.D.in School
of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University (South Korea) in 2000 and 2004, respectively. His doctoral research focused on "Development of Polymer and Carbon Nanostructures by Vapor Deposition Polymerization". Then he worked as a senior researcher in
LG Chem from Feb 2004 to Feb 2007. In March 2007, he joined the Xia group at University of Washington as a postdoctoral researcher, and is now involved in the synthesis of metal nanoparticles for catalytic applications.


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Jooho Moon is a visiting scholar from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. He holds MS and PhD degrees in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida. He did his postdoctoral research in the Materials Processing Center at MIT from 1996 to 1998. He was awarded a Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship in 1998. He joined the faculty as an associate professor at the Yonsei University in 2000. His research interests have included ink-jet printing of self-assembling colloids and functional nanoparticles, printed electronics and displays, micro solid oxide fuel cell, micro patterning of ceramics, and organic-inorganic hybrid materials.
 

Eric Lee was born in Ontario, Canada, and lived most of his life in Taipei, Taiwan.  In 1999 he began his undergraduate studies abroad in East Sussex, England.  The following year he returned to Canada and began attending Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.  In 2003 he graduated with a B.SC. in mathematics and a B.SC.H. in chemistry in 2004.  He is currently at the University of Washington pursuing his Ph.D. in chemistry under the supervision of Younan Xia and Charles T. Campbell.  His research projects include synthesizing and utilizing metal nanostructures for applications in fields such as catalysis, fuel cells, and energy storage.

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Xianmao Lu graduated from Tsinghua University, China with a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering. He attended the University of Texas at Austin from 2000-2005 and got his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering under the supervision of Professors Keith Johnston and Brian Korgel. At present, he is working with Professor Younan Xia as a Philip Morris INEST Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His research interests include synthesis and processing of metal and semiconductor nanostructures. He enjoys playing tennis and jogging in his spare time.

Matthew Rycenga  was born in Cadillac, Michigan. He graduated from Hope College with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2006. Matthew is currently pursuing his Ph.D degree in chemistry with Professor Younan Xia. His scientific interests include nanoparticle synthesis, self-assembly, surfaced-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and novel biological applications of nanoparticles.


Sara Skrabalak was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1980.  She attended Washington University in St. Louis (1998-2002) where she received her B.A. in chemistry.  While there, she conducted research with Professor Buhro, and for her work, she received the Sowden Undergraduate Research Award.   She then attended the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, joining Professor Suslick's laboratory in 2002.  She received her Ph.D. in chemistry in the fall of 2006.   Sara was the recipient of the T. S. Piper Thesis Research Award in inorganic chemistry for her dissertation work: "Porous Materials Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis".   She joined the Xia group in January 2007 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and is now involved in the synthesis and development of novel metallic nanostructures for biomedical applications.  
 
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