People currently in the Group

Name	Position	Project/technique	e-mail	tel.
Sergei Smirnov	associate professor			646-1547
Fabian Rios	IV year graduate student (physical)	PTDC, photoinduced charge transfer, nanoporous sensors, drug delivery		646-2144
Xian Wang	III year graduate student (physical)	Nanoporous sensors		646-2144
Jessica Curtiss	III year graduate student (molecular biology)	Hybrid nanomaterials, drug delivery		646-2144
Areen Khattabi	II year graduate student (organic chemistry)			646-2144
Ricky Perrera	undergraduate student (chemical engineering)	Hybrid nanomaterials		646-2144

Location: Room CB112

January 2008. From left to right: S.Smirnov, J. Curtiss, F. Rios, X. Wang

Alumni

Name	Position held	Years	Project/technique	Current (last known) position, E-mail
Ilia Shalaev	Undergraduate student	1999	Surface immobilization using silanes	Deceased
Victor Bagryansky	Visiting scientist	2001	PTDC, light emmiting diodes	Back at the Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Novosibirsk, Russia
Lisken Mason	Undergraduate student	2002	Surface self assembly on oxides and optical properties of SAM	liskena@hotmail.com
Eric Rodriguez	Summer student	2002,2003	Surface self assembly on oxides	Graduated from NMSU, Engineering
Michael Tadjikov	Summer student	2003	Nanoporous sensor	Graduated from NMSU, Engineering
Boris Tadjikov	Postdoc then college professor	1998-2004	Scanning probe microscopy, magnetic field effects	Lasen Inc., Las Cruces, NM
Alexey Krasnoslobodtsev	PhD Graduate student	2000-2005	Thesis: "The Study of Charge Transfer in Short DNA Oligonucleotides-Hairpins and Surface Bound Organic molecules", July 2005	Postdoc at UNMC with Prof. Yuri Lyubchenko; E-mail:
Kirill Velizhanin	Graduate student	2003-2005	Molecular electronics, scanning probe microscopy	Postdoc at LANL, Email:
Pavel Takmakov	MS Graduate student	2002-2006	Nanopores, nanowires, DNA sensors	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; email: takmakov@email.unc.edu
Ivan Vlassiouk	PhD student, postdoctoral research associate	2000-2005, 2005-2006	Thesis: "Electrical Sensors for Chemical Processes: Capacitive Sensing of Photoinduced Intramolecular Charge Transfer Reactions and Universal Bioaffinity Sensor Based on Conductance Variation Through Nanopores", November 2005	Postdoc at UC Irvine, with Prof. Z. Siwy, Email: ivlassio@uci.edu on his way to ORNL
Victor Szczepanski	undergraduate student, sophomore	2005-2007	Nanoporous sensors	undergraduate at NMSU, philosophy major; email:
Jessica Young	undergraduate student, sophomore	2007	Nanoporous sensors	NMSU, graduate student in Prof. J.Smith group; email:

Group Pictures from Previous Years

May 2006. From left to right: S.Smirnov, F. Rios, V. Szczepanski, P.Takmakov, I. Vlassiouk

February 2005. From left to right: I. Vlassiouk, P.Takmakov, A.Krasnoslobodtsev, K. Velizhanin, S.Smirnov

February 2003: S.Smirnov, A.Krasnoslobodtsev, P.Takmakov, B. Tadjikov, I. Vlassiouk

March 2002: S.Smirnov, A.Krasnoslobodtsev, L. Mason, I. Vlassiouk, B. Tadjikov

Tri bogatyrya
2001: Victor Bagryansky, Ivan Vlassiouk, Alexey Krasnoslobodtsev