Current Post-Doctoral Students and Visiting Scientists
Dr. Vineeth Mohanan Parakkat
Ph.D. in Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2017.
Vineeth is a post-doctoral research associate working on artificial frustrated systems of magnetostatically interacting nanomagnets and is developing highly configurable artificial spin ice devices utilizing the exchange-bias mechanism. He received his M.S and Ph.D. in physics at Indian Institute of Science in 2017. His doctoral research was mainly on developing magnetic data storage devices using nanostructures of in-plane and out-of-plane magnetized thin films. He used electrical transport and magneto-optical imaging techniques to understand spin orbit torque mechanisms operating during a current driven reversal process in Co/Pt multilayer devices. He is also interested in instrumentation, programming, scanning probe microscopy techniques and micromagnetic modelling.
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Former Post-Doctoral Students and Visiting Scientists
Ulrich Engelmann
PhD Candidate in Physics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany (2015 – present).
M.Sc. & B.Sc. in Physics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany (2007 – 2013).
Ulrich is a visiting PhD student from Germany, where he is a research associate at the Institute of Applied Medical Engineering (AME) at the Helmholtz-Institute of the RWTH Aachen University. He investigates the feasibility of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) in magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) from synthesis to clinical application. His research activities span the physicochemical characterization of MNP, modelling of nanoparticle-cell-interactions, size, clustering and immobilization effects of MNP in MFH and theoretical modelling of the physics underlying MNP heating. If not found in the office or lab, Ulrich enjoys martial arts (Ju-Jutsu & Judo), cooking and mountaineering.
Ulrich holds a German Federal Fellowship from the Cusanuswerk e.V..
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Dr. Sonu Gandhi
Ph.D in Biotechnology, Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) and Panjab University Chandigarh, India, 2010
During her Ph.D, she worked in the area of Antibody-based Biosensor development. She was postdoctoral fellow at Campus IFOM-IEO, Milan, Italy from 2010-2014 where she worked on Cancer biomarker development. She is currently a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington. Her main focus is on the interface between functionalized nanoparticles and cell biology in the context of emerging applications of in vivo imaging (MPI) and therapeutics as well as in vitro diagnostics.
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Dr. Matt Ferguson
Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle WA, 2011
Dr. Matthew Ferguson received a B.A in Physics from Pomona College in 2003. While at Pomona, his research interests included work in instrumentation, scanning probe microscopy, and patterned growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes. In 2011, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His doctoral work, which was supervised by Prof. Kannan Krishnan, was a vertically integrated study of a new medical imaging technology: Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI). MPI exploits the unique physical properties of nanosized magnetic particles to enable new capabilities for imaging the vasculature and diagnosing disease (i.e. cancer) at the earliest stages. Dr. Ferguson’s work included modeling, chemical synthesis, and experimental nanoparticle optimization; it also included the design and construction of novel instrumentation. In 2010, Dr. Ferguson, Prof. Krishnan, and Amit Khandhar founded LodeSpin Labs to commercialize their MPI technology.
Dr. Ferguson is currently a University of Washington Commercialization Fellow in
Prof. Kannan Krishnan’s laboratory, where he continues to develop LodeSpin’s MPI
technology.
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Dr. Asahi Tomitaka
She received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. From 2011 to 2012, she was a Japan society for the promotion of science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. She is currently a Visiting Researcher (JSPS Fellow) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, WA, USA. Her research is focused on biomedical application using iron oxide nanoparticles such as drug delivery system, hyperthermia, and magnetic particle imaging.
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Dr. Amit Khandahr
PhD In Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington
B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle (2007)
Develop diagnostic and therapeutic technologies based on tailored and functionalized magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles (MNPs).
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Dr. Saqlain A Shah
PhD in Physics (2011), GC University Lahore Pakistan.
Research interests: Biomedical nanomagnetics, Nanomagnetism, Nanoparticles for Magnetic particle imaging (MPI), MRI & Hyperthermia.
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