Silvija Gradeèak, who serves as the Thomas Lord Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won the 2012 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship award.
Silvija Gradeèak, the Thomas Lord Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (Image: Nano Letters)
This recognition, inaugurated in 2012, felicitates the work of a young investigator who has done significant contributions to the field of nanotechnology and nanoscience. Gradeèak will deliver the invited lectureship speech at the 244th ACS National Meeting and Exposition to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry technical program.
Gradeèak’s research work concentrates on the field of electronics and nanophotonics and is relied on fabrication, classification, and integration of low-dimensional systems. She exploits the novel properties of materials on their nanoscale to analyze advanced optoelectronic applications, including nanowire lasers, single photon sources, and nanoscale light-emitting sources. Advanced instruments and multidisciplinary approach are needed to understand the properties of these nanosystems.
Gradeèak utilizes rational fabrication of free-standing nanoscale materials such as nanowires, nanotubes and nanocrystals and integrates advanced electron microscopy techniques, transport measurements, and spectroscopic techniques to directly correlate physical and structural properties on the nanoscale. Experimental methodologies and techniques that are being devised as part of Gradeèak’s work are usually applicable to any type of material system in which interaction between nanostructure, performance, and properties becomes important.
Gradeèak earned a diploma in physics from the University of Zagreb in Croatia in 1999 and a PhD in physics from the Interdisciplinary Center of Electron Microscopy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in 2003.
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