Faculty & Staff

NCCU Faculty

  • Yongan Tang Asso. Professor, Physics – Thrust 2
  • Darlene Taylor Professor, Chemistry – Thrust 1
  • Branislav Vlahovic Professor, Physics – Thrust 2
  • Marvin Wu  Professor, Physics (PI)  – Thrust 2
  • Fei Yan Professor, Chemistry (co-PI) – Thrust 1
  • Liju Yang Professor, Pharmaceutical Sci. – Thrust 1
  • Ufana Riaz, Asst. Professor – Thrust 1 &  Education Coordinator

NCCU Staff

Penn State Faculty

Penn State Staff

  • Kristin Ann Dreyer, Co-Program Director for Education & Outreach – Penn State MRSEC
  • Sarah Boehm, Co-Program Director for Education and Outreach  – Penn State MRSEC

 Postdoctoral Scholar

  • Rajeev Kumar, Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (2019)
  • Clayton Casper, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2021)

Postdoctoral Alumni

  • Basant Chitara (2019-2023).  Senior Engineer, semiconductor industry
  • Tej B. Limbu (2018-2021). Currently, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physical and Applied Sciences, University of Houston-Clear Lake
  • Chen Chen (2016-2018). Currently Staff Battery Cell Engineer at
  • Guiping Dai (2015-2018). Currently, Assistant Professor, Nanchang University, China
  •  Ani Tshantshapanyan (2015-2018)