About the Professors
Shana Kelley (The Great Courses)
Dr. Shana Kelley is the former director of the Division of Biomolecular Sciences at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Cal Tech. Professor Kelley’s research has been featured in Scientific American and Nature Medicine, among other publications. Her work has been recognized with a variety of awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. She currently serves as Chief Technology Officer for a firm she co-founded, which is based on her work in biomolecular sensing.
Ted Sargent (The Great Courses)
Ted Sargent is a Professor at the University of Toronto where he holds Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. His work has been published in Nature, Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, and Nature Photonics, and he is the author of The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives. He is founder and CTO of InVisage Technologies. He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Vicki Colvin (Coursera)
Dr. Vicki Colvin is vice provost for Research, the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. Most recently, she has served as the Director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN), which was one of the nation's first nanoscience and engineering centers. Vicki's current research explores how nanoscale particles interact with the environment and living systems.
Daniel Mittleman (Coursera)
Daniel Mittleman is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. He is currently serving as the Director of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, which was the world's first university-based nanotechnology institute. Dan's research background is in ultrafast optical spectroscopy and condensed-matter physics, and his current research interests involve terahertz science and technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the Optical Society of America.
