Invited Speakers

Seminar title: "Interfaces at the Ultimate Concentration Limit of a Single Molecule"

Departments of Physics & Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University

Lydia was born and raised in the Cleveland area. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Wittenberg University in 2010. During undergrad, she participated in research at Clemson University on silver nanoparticle self-assembly and at the University of Colorado at Boulder on nanofabrication of circuits containing GaN through which she gained an appreciation for interdisciplinary research. Lydia then left the great state of Ohio for Texas, where she was a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Rice University under Prof. Christy Landes. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry in 2015 studying ion-exchange chromatography - an important separation technique in the pharmaceutical industry - at the single molecule level.  She then was an Arnold O. Beckman-Theodore “Ted” Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. Martin Gruebele, Prof. Deborah Leckband, and Prof. Paul Braun to understand protein folding in polymer environments.

Lydia's research develops microscopies to inform and inspire the design of materials. Her research interests straddle the line between physics and chemistry, with aspects of biology, chemical engineering, and materials science mixed in. She enjoys collaborative work with diverse teams and has published with scientists and engineers from around the USA and world (McGill, Michigan, UNC, UC Santa Cruz, Montreal, Harvard, UCLA, Hokkaido, Kansas St., Houston, Rice, UIUC, CWRU). She is especially proud that her basic research results have led to collaborations with industry (3M, Lubrizol) and patents, where there is potential for science to impact applied, commercial products in society. Outside of research she enjoys coffee, boxing, Mexican cooking, spending time with friends and family, and *tries* to enjoy Cleveland sports.

Kisley Lab 

Seminar title: "In Vivo Quantification of Pulmonary Microstructure"

Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children's Hospital & Department of Pediatrics & Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati

Zack is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine and Department of Radiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and holds a secondary appointment in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He earned a B.S. in chemistry from The University of Montana and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Colorado State University. He subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Radiology at Duke University before joining CCHMC. Research in the Cleveland group focuses on developing hyperpolarized gas and ultra-short echo-time (UTE) MRI methods to quantify lung structure and function in small animal models, pediatric subjects, and adults across a range of pulmonary disorders.

Zackary Cleveland's Research Profile

Seminar title: Space Radiation Effects in Semiconductors

Departments of Materials Science and Engineering & Physics, The Ohio State University

Wolfgang Windl is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, with a courtesy appointment in Physics. He directs SPACE-MAT, the AFRL Center of Excellence on Materials in Low-Earth Orbit, focusing on space-environment and radiation effects on materials and collaborating with NASA. Before joining OSU in 2001, he worked at Motorola as Principal Staff Scientist and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is co-founder of GonioTech LLC, a device company that secured to date over $5M in defense-related funding to translate advanced materials research into commercial technologies for terrestrial and space applications. Among others, he received the inaugural Fraunhofer-Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Society in Germany in 2006; a 2004 Nanotechnology Industrial Impact Award from the Nano Science and Technology Institute; two Patent and Licensing Awards from Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1998 and 1999; four Lumley Research Awards, the 2015 Boyer Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Engineering Innovation; the 2019 Best Paper in Graduate Studies award from ASEE; and 2006 and 2015 Mars Fontana Best Teacher Awards from the undergraduate students of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. He will serve as Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Computational Materials Science in 2028. 

Windl Group

Seminar title: TBA

Foundational Technology Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory

Tyson Back's Research Works

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