Research Topics: Cardiopulmonary physiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Research Lab; Signal Transduction; Vascular Medicine
Director, UB Initiative on Plastics Recycling and Innovation, a NYS Center of Excellence (April 2022 – to date)
University at Buffalo
Founding Director, The RENEW Institute (Jan 2015-July 2021)
University at Buffalo
Research Topics: Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials & Devices; Strain-driven Self-Assembly of Advanced Materials; Advanced Energy and Electronic Materials; Clean Energy Technologies.
New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (CMI)
Research Topics: Synthesis, characterization, and application of advanced electronic and energy materials; investigation of the processing-structure-property relationship of epitaxial thin films and heterostructures; monolithic integration of materials with complimentary functionalities for electronic devices; and exploration of superconductors and their applications to energy and quantum devices.
Research and Education in Energy, Environment and Water (RENEW)
Research Topics: Novel portable and standoff chemical and biological sensors for applications in health, environment, and safety; clean energy harvesting technologies; instrumentation for energy efficiency and sustainability
Research Topics: Novel techniques for advanced MRI instrumentation; multi-modal biomedical imaging; novel MR imaging formation technology; MR imaging at high and ultrahigh fields; novel device and method development for structural, functional and metabolic imaging using proton and heteronuclear MRI; parallel imaging and compressed sensing based fast imaging methodology; new hardware technology for MR imaging, microimaging, cancer imaging, fetal and neonatal imaging; interventional MRI; PET-MRI in health and cancerous conditions; technical development of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) or magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) in small animal models and humans
Specialty/Research Focus: Energy storage/conversion materials and devices; nano-materials and devices fabrication and characterization; solid-state thin film deposition and optoelectronic devices; nonlinear optics