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Left to right: Wassie Takele, Bing Gao, Melissa DeRaad, Terefe G. Habteyes, Bisweswar Patra, Glorianne Dorce, Jameel Damoah,

Glorianne Dorce, and Prashamsha Thapa

Principal Investigator

Terefe G. Habteyes

Professor of Physical Chemistry

Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM)

University of New Mexico

Office: Clark Hall B17J or CHTM 108A

Email: habteyes@unm.edu

Dr. Habteyes earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Addis Ababa University in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He later completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Arizona in 2008, under the guidance of Prof. Andrei Sanov. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at both the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2008 to 2012, collaborating with Prof. Stephen Leone and Prof. Paul Alivisatos. In August 2012, he assumed his role as an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. His dedication and contributions led to his promotion to the position of associate professor with tenure in July 2018, and he achieved the rank of full professor in July 2023.

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