Our Team
Yusong Li, Ph.D.
Professor, Water Resources Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Research and Professional Interest
- Fate and transport of contaminants
- Environmental implication of nanotechnology
- Ground water remediation
- Numerical simulation at pore and continuum scales
Changmin Yan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations, College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Research and Professional Interest
- Persuasion
- Strategic communications and health promotions
- Translational research
- Community engagement and public advocacy
Dipti Dev, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Research and Professional Interest
- Feeding practices for preschool children
- Behavioral economics
- Technology for developing and evaluating programming
- Childhood obesity prevention policy research, including assessing, strengthening and p
- Providing support for Head Start, USDA's Child and Adult Care food Program nutrition regulations and child care quality rating systems
Lucia Fernandez Ballester, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Material Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Research and Professional Interest
- Conducting polymers for energy applications
- Life cycle, sustainability, and environmental impact of polymers
- Polymer crystallization
- Processing and engineering of polymers
- Polymer composites
Kim Seulki, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of interest:
- Health Disparities and Medical Sociology
- Quantitative Methods
- Life Course Perspective
- Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Yongfeng Lu, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Research and Professional Interest
- Carbon materials: diamond, carbon nanotubes, carbon nano-onions, graphene, etc.
- Nanophotonics
- Optical spectroscopy and imaging: Confocal Raman spectroscopy and imaging, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, coherent anti-Stocks Raman spectroscopy and imaging
- Nanoscale laser material processing and characterization
- Laser-assisted nanoimprinting
- 2D and 3D nanomanufacturing employing scanning probe microscope
- Surface cleaning and drying
- Laser-assisted materials synthesis and processing
- Molecular Level Surface Drying for Nanoelectronics
- Controlled growth of carbon nanostructures, including carbon nanotubes (CNT), graphene, and carbon nanoonions (CNOs)
- Supercapacitors
- Nano-Raman spectroscopy
- Two photon polymerization for 3D nanofabrication
- Pulsed laser deposition
- Laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition
Bing Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor. Food Safety Extension Specialist. Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Areas of Research and Professional Interest
- Microbial food safety
- Epidemiology
- Systematic review
- Meta-analysis
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment
Svetlana Romanova, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. University of Nebraska Medical Center
Research Activities/Interests
- Design and synthesis of polymeric nanocarriers for drug delivery
- Small molecules modification and screening for anticancer activity
- Self-assembly of amphiphilic biomolecules for drug nanoformulation
- Nanoformulation development for antineoplastic therapy