Faculty Participants CREST

The City College of New York (CCNY), the oldest college of the City University of New York (CUNY), • Daniel L. Akins, Chemistry, CCNY is a comprehensive teaching, research and service Center for Interface Design and Engineered Assembly of Low-dimensional Systems • Adam Braunschweig, Chemistry, CUNY-ASRC institution dedicated to access and excellence in undergraduate and graduate education. • Ubaldo M. Cordova, Chem. Eng., UPRM • Alexander Couzis, Chem. Eng., CCNY CCNY and the CUNY Graduate Center • Dorthe Eisele, Chemistry, CCNY jointly award Ph.D. degrees in • Lia Krusin-Elbaum, Physics, CCNY biology, biochemistry, chemistry and physics. The Grove School of • Swapan K. Gayen, Physics, CCNY Engineering at CCNY also grants the Ph.D. in five • Pouyan Ghaemi, Physics, CCNY engineering disciplines. CCNY is the alma mater • Alexander Khanikaev, Elec. Eng., CCNY of nine Nobel Laureates in physics, chemistry and • Ilona Kretzschmar, Chem. Eng., CCNY economics. • John R. Lombardi, Chemistry, CCNY • Gustavo Lopez, Chemistry, LC • Donna McGregor, Chemistry, LC Graduate Research • Vinod Menon, Physics, CCNY • Carlos Meriles, Physics, CCNY Fellowships • Stephen O'Brien, Chemistry, CCNY • Kyungwha Park, Physics, VT • Mark Shattuck, Physics, CCNY • Aidong Shen, Elec. Eng., CCNY • Maria C. Tamargo, Chemistry, CCNY • Madeline Torres Lugo, Chem. Eng., UPRM CREST • Raymond Tu, Chem. Eng., CCNY • Rein Ulijn, Chemistry, CUNY-ASRC

Leadership Maria C. Tamargo, Director Ph: 212-650-7941 • Email: [email protected] MARIA C. TAMARGO is the Director and Principal Web: www.idealscrest.org Investigator of the Center. She is joined by co-principal 160 Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031 IDEALS CREST • City College of New York investigators Swapan Gayen, Lia Krusin-Elbaum, Ilona 160 Convent Avenue • New York, NY 10031 Kretzschmar and Gustavo Lopez. IDEALS was established with an award of $5 million over five years from the National Science Foundation. www.idealscrest.org THE CREST CENTER FOR INTERFACE RESEARCH AREAS GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS DESIGN AND ENGINEERED ASSEMBLY OF • $34,000 annual stipend Low-Dimensional Functional Materials and Nano- • Full tuition waiver LOW DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS (IDEALS) Heterostructures • Comprehensive health addresses the national need for “accelerating the pace of • Tunable topological heterostructures for insurance discovery and deployment of advanced material systems” as thermoelectric applications • Interdisciplinary research stated in the Materials Genome Initiative • Heterovalent II-VI/III-V semiconductor structures for • Global research collaborations (www.whitehouse.gov/mgi). photonic devices • Novel photonic applications: ZnO-based emitters; plasmonics in topological surfaces of Bi Se A diverse interdisciplin- 2 3 ELIGIBILITY ary team of researchers • Must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with complementary Bio-inspired Re-configurable Materials • Must be admitted to the CUNY Ph.D. program in interests has come to- • Transient and reconfigurable nanostructures that chemistry, physics or engineering gether to discover and respond to external stimuli • African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and design materials with • Energy and electron transfer in hybrid nanostructures women are strongly encouraged to apply new and enhanced for light harvesting functionalities that cul- • Re-configurable structures for cancer diagnosis and minate from the control therapy CONTACT of the salient properties Maria C. Tamargo, Director of surfaces, interfaces Novel Materials Probes and Design Formalism and defects in self-as- • Probes and Characterization: surface enhanced 212-650-7941 sembled nanomaterials; and to further technology, energy Raman scattering; Fourier space imaging and near [email protected] and health applications. IDEALS scientists and engineers at field microscopy; time-resolved scanning tunneling CCNY with partners at Lehman College, the CUNY Advanced microscopy Science Research Center, the University of Puerto Rico at • Analytical approaches and numerical modelling: Mayaguez, and Virginia Tech employ experimental, analyt- quantum field theory, density functional theory, ical and numerical modelling tools to design and discover molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo algorithms complex novel materials, investigate new physical phenom- • “Spin complexes” for sensing and quantum information ena, and integrate education and research to train the lead- processing ers of tomorrow.