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| Dr. Naomi Halas Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Director, Laboratory for Nanophotonics, and Professor of Chemistry, Rice University |
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| Recorded: 7/12/06 | |
| Dr. Naomi Halas is the Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Laboratory for Nanophotonics, and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University. She is best known as the inventor of nanoshells, a new class of multi-layered nanoscale particles that have unique optical properties of wide interest in optics, biomedicine, materials science, and other disciplines. In creating nanoshells, Dr. Halas drew upon her education and training in both the natural and applied sciences.
Dr. Halas joined the faculty of Rice's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1989 and received a joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry in 1999. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a recipient of the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, and a four-time winner of the Rice Engineering Alumni's Hershel M. Rich Invention Award. Dr. Halas was recently named Fellow of the American Physical Society, and she received the "Cancer Innovator" Award from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs of the U. S. Department of Defense in 2003. |
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