Mechanical engineer Lucas Meza joins NanoES

We are thrilled to welcome Lucas Meza to UW as an assistant professor in mechanical engineering and NanoES faculty member. The Mechanical Engineering department and NanoES partnered to help bring Meza to UW from the University of Cambridge where he was a research associate studying the micromechanical behavior of 3D woven fiber composites. At UW, Meza will investigate the connection between small-scale material phenomena and large-scale mechanical properties in natural and engineered materials with the specific goal of using nanoscale architecture as a design tool to create new materials with novel mechanical properties.

Design, synthesis, and integration of quantum nanoscale materials

Peter Pauzauskie, Materials Science & Engineering professor and NanoES faculty member, synthesizes nanoscale materials for potential applications in next-generation quantum sensors, biomedical devices, and solid-state laser refrigeration. The Pauzauskie Research Group maintains office space, a wet lab for nanocrystal synthesis, and a lab for laser spectroscopy experiments in the NanoES building.

Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials

In a paper published Oct. 8 in the journal Nano Letters, a team from the University of Washington and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan announced that it has constructed functional metalenses that are one-tenth to one-half the thickness of the wavelengths of light that they focus. Their metalenses, which were constructed out of layered 2D materials, were as thin as 190 nanometers — less than 1/100,000ths of an inch thick.

UW Electrical & Computer Engineering department hiring tenure-track faculty

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Washington, Seattle invites applications for multiple full-time tenure-track positions with a nine-month service period annually, from exceptional candidates with strong record of collaboration and creativity. Hiring will be made primarily at the tenure-track assistant professor level with an anticipated start date of September 16, 2019. More information about the department, including background on our recent name change to ECE can be found at www.ece.uw.edu.

The Innovation File: A study in persistence

For the new Nanoengineering & Sciences Building, UW alum Dennis Edmondson designed a stud that combined the thermal features of wood with the strength of steel. Read this feature in the UW Alumni Magazine.

David Younger: Turning Research Into Impact

The UW College of Engineering features Dr. David Younger, a postdoc in the lab of NanoES faculty member Eric Klavins. Younger is the founder/CEO of A-Alpha Bio, a spinout focused on accelerating drug development by providing quantitative and high-throughput measurements of protein-protein interactions.

Shreyas Shah awarded Mistletoe Research Fellowship

Dr. Shreyas Shah, a postdoc working with Karl Böhringer and Arka Majumdar on an integrated photonics project, has been awarded an Unfettered Research Grant award to the tune of $10,000 by the Mistletoe Research Foundation. The Mistletoe Research Foundation, founded in 2017, builds bridges between the academic, entrepreneurial, and civil communities to create a more human-centered and sustainable future through technology.