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Michael Saul Isaacson

Michael Saul Isaacson

Narinder Singh Kapany Professor Emeritus

Baskin School of Engineering

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Mike Isaacson

Narinder Singh Kapany Prof. Emeritus

msi@soe.ucsc.edu

607-283-3133


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Energy, Science Education, Optics, Sustainability, Bioengineering, Material Science


Biography, Education and Training

Michael Isaacson is the Narinder Singh Kapany Professor emeritus, professor of electrical engineering. He was Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems (CenSEPS) at UCSC and Acting Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC from 2006 to 2009. He is recipient of numerous awards including a Hertz Foundation Fellowship, a Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship, the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America, an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, the R... more »

Holger Schmidt

Holger Schmidt

Distinguished Professor, Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics, Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Baskin School of Engineering

Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, DNA, RNA, Proteins, Material Science, Bioengineering


Biography, Education and Training

Holger Schmidt received an M.S. degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After serving as a postdoctoral Fellow with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, he joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001. He is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds the Nari... more »


Areas of expertise: Chemistry, Material Science, Energy


Biography, Education and Training

B.Sc. (1999), Ph.D. (2002), The University of Hong Kong Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2003), The University of Hong Kong Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2007), Harvard University


Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Archaeology, Indigenous Peoples, Mineralogy, Material Science


Biography, Education and Training

Professor Judith Habicht Mauche's research interests include the organization of production and exchange, ethnicity and gender, and the nature of power and social organization in middle range societies in the American Southwest and Southern Plains. Her background includes training in pre-contact and post-contact period archaeology in the Americas, ethnohistory and museum studies. She is an expert in the archaeological application of mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic techniques for sourcing... more »


Areas of expertise: Chemistry, Material Science, Energy


Biography, Education and Training

B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, 1991 M.S. Cornell University, 1993 Ph.D. Cornell University, 1996


Areas of expertise: Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Material Science, Sustainability


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Reed College Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison


Areas of expertise: Chemistry, Material Science, Environmental Studies, Water, X-ray Crystallography, Solid State Physics, Biotechnology


Biography, Education and Training

B.Sc. Chemistry, University of Toronto, graduated with distintion Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, University of Toronto, Department of Chemistry Postdoctoral NSERC Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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Karyn Skemp

Communications Director

kskemp@ucsc.edu

‭(831) 459-3651‬


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Optics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Viruses and Microbes, Neuroscience, Material Science, Solid State Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Computational Modeling


Biography, Education and Training

Prof. Yanik's research focuses on Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) detection from human blood using nano-fluidic platforms for cancer diagnostics. His research interests includes nanoplasmonic and metamaterial devices for ultrasensitive infrared/terahertz spectroscopy of biomolecules/chemicals and high-throughput, cost effective, BioNEMS technologies for life sciences and point-of-care diagnostics. His expertise is in high-end nanolithography and bio-patterning as well as theory and engineering... more »


Areas of expertise: Chemistry, Physics, Material Science


Biography, Education and Training

B.S. Chemistry, University of San Francisco Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, UCLA Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

David Lederman

David Lederman

Professor, Director, Materials Science & Engineering Program

Physics Department

Areas of expertise: Solid State Physics, Material Science, Physics, Applied Physics


Biography, Education and Training

I obtained my B.S. in Physics with Honors at Stanford University in 1988 and my Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1992, where I studied the phase transition properties of antiferromagnetic superlattices grown via MBE under the supervision of Prof. Vince Jaccarino.  From 1992 to 1995 I was a postdoctoral researcher, project scientist, and lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, where I studied the properties of high temperature superconducting... more »

Tsim D Schneider

Tsim D Schneider

Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Anthropology Department

Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Archaeology, Colonialism, California History, Indigenous Peoples, Material Science


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley M.A. - University of Texas at Austin B.A. - University of Texas at Austin  Tsim Schneider (he/him) is a citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and archaeologist. Dr. Schneider studies the interactions between Indigenous peoples and colonial institutions, primarily in California. He is the author of The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California (Univer... more »

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