Expertise

Besides bio-inspired materials and self-assembly, his research interests include nanophotonics, biophysics, and thermodynamics of small systems.

Projects:

  • Function and mechanisms in biological nanoparticles: viruses and bacterial adhesives
    • Interactions driving virus-like particle self-assembly
    • In singulo kinetics of assembly

Subject areas:

  • Physical
  • Analysis
  • Life
  • Origins

Subject Area

  • Chemistry
Communities
Biochemistry, Cellular Biochemistry, Molecular Biochemistry, Physics, Chemistry
Degrees
PhD, University of Paris-Sud, France, Physics, 1997
BS, University of Bucharest, Physics, 1992
Keywords
chemical sciences
Honors

RUGS Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2002

SPIE scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering, 2000

'Aguirre - Basualdo ' Award for Sciences (Sorbonne, France), 1996

French Government Ph.D. Scholarship, 1994