Members

Left to right: David Salazar Reyes, Worku B. Abebe, Melissa DeRaad, Tariqul Islam Asif, Terefe G. Habteyes, Bing Gao, Glorianne Dorce, Jameel Damoah, Ramon Loya, and Redeat Adane.

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 then completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Arizona in 2008 under the guidance of Prof. Andrei Sanov. From 2008 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at both the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he collaborated with Prof. Stephen Leone and Prof. Paul Alivisatos. In August 2012, he joined the University of New Mexico as an assistant professor. His dedication and contributions led to his promotion to associate professor with tenure in July 2018, and he attained the rank of full professor in July 2023. His research interests include near-field microscopy and spectroscopy, plasmonics, nanophotonics, photocatalysis, and interfacial photophysical and photochemical processes.