Hi,

I direct the Wolf Nanofabrication Facility at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining Penn (November 2007) I was a Research Physicist at Elsicon, Inc. in Newark, DE. While there I worked on miniature optical gyroscopes (in collaboration with the University of Delaware) and on the optical alignment of liquid crystals.

For my dissertation (Optics, CREOL at University of Central Florida, 2001) I worked on antenna-coupled infrared detectors; Prof. Glenn Boreman was my adviser and I did my fabrication "apprenticeship" at the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility. I earned a B.S. in Physics from the "A. I. Cuza" University (Iasi, Romania) in 1996.

Favorite quotes:
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson