Graduate Students

Ion Cohanoschi (College of Optics & Photonics/CREOL-FPCE)

	Ion Cohanoschi is native of Rumania. He earned his BS in 1995 from The University of Bucharest, Rumania. He earned a MS in Optics from School of Optices/CREOL, University of Central Florida, in 2002. His current work as a Graduate student is mainly focus on the study of the structure-property relationship for three and four-photon absorbers, and the multiphoton (three, four and five) induced fluorescence excitation of dyes assisted by surface plasmon.
Marisol García (Department of Chemistry)
	Marisol García is originally from Venezuela. She received her BS in Chemistry from the “Universidad Central de Venezuela”, Venezuela in 1996. She obtained a MS in Reservoir Engineer from the “Universidad Simón Bolivar”, Venezuela. Her research aims to develop a new, highly sensitive and selective method for remote hydrogen sensing using Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) taking advantage of the selectivity of specific metals to bind hydrogen and induce double bond hydrogenation.

Sriram Mukundaranja (Department of Chemistry)

Sriram was born in India. He obtained his BS in Chemistry from the University of India. My research aims to establish the foundation for "radiative decay engineering" (RDE) by combining surface plasmon enhancement effects with nonlinear optical processes such as multiphoton absorption, energy transfer, and excited state intersystem crossing.

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Undergraduate Students

Anne Ryan (Department of Chemistry & REU/CREOL-FPCE)

	Anne Ryan used to work in my group on the synthesis, separation and optical characterization of nobel metal nanoparticles. This excellent student now is doing her Ph.D. at USF.
Horatio Carias (Department of Chemistry & REU/CREOL-FPCE)
	Horatio’s project goal is to the generate nobel metal nanorings with potential applications as metamaterials for negative refractive index. He is using laponite clays as template with different charge distribution on the surface.

Maxime Blangero (REU/CREOL-FPCE)

Maxime came from Bordeaux, France, under an international on going REU program. The aim of his study is to develop new erbium doped sulfide glass materials with attributes of rare earth solubility and structures amenable to photo modification either through laser based photo structuring or through use of photo diffusion processes. This project is part of an ongoing collaboration with Dr. Kathleen Richardson and Dr. Laeticia Petit.