Of course most research today is done in collaboration with other people. Mine is no exception to the rule, so all the projects presented on this site are not my work alone. So it is my pleasure to acknowledge the guidance, help, advice and support of my past and present mentors, coworkers and collaborators.

Physics Department at UW-Madison is where I spent over 5 years in the graduate school.
Prof. Franz Himpsel is my Ph.D. thesis advisor who introduced me to Surface Science and basically all the nanostructures projects that I present have been done mainly under his guidance and with other members of our group:
Dr. Jia-Ling Lin (postdoc); Kyle Altmann, Armen Kirakosian, Jason Crain (fellow grad students); Dr. Joerg Viernow, Dr. Huber Rauscher, Dr. Thomas Jung, Dr. F.K. Men (visiting scientists); Marcus Laubscher, Erin Lay (undergrad summer students); Dr. Fred Leibsle (former postdoc, now at UMKC).

There was quite a few formal and informal collaborations within the UW-Madison campus, in particular with groups of Prof. Max Lagally (Materials Science), Prof. Robert Hamers (Chemistry). The more recent projects on bio-compatible silicon surfaces and biosensors were in collaboration with groups of Profs. Nicholas Abbott and Paul Nealey (Chemical Engineering) and other members of MRSEC Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG).

My current postdoc position is shared between the Physics Department at the University of MD College Park and Code 6177 of the Naval Research Laboratory. And the interdisciplinary aspect, that I enjoyed so much in my past collaborations, is even more part of my work now through daily discussions and experiments with my colleagues: chemists, physisists, bio-chemists, and material scientists.

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