Madalina
Ioana Furis, PhD
Professor & Materials Science Program Director
Professor & Materials Science Program Director
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| I joined the Physics Department and the Material Science
program at the University of Vermont (UVM)
in Aug 2006 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in May of 2012. I received my Ph.D in January 2004 for my work on “Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
of GaN/AlN Quantum Well Heterostructures” (Bruce McCombe (Physics) and Alex
Cartwright (EE) –co-advisors). I spent my postdoctoral years at the National
High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where I worked on
high magnetic field spectroscopy of colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots and Kerr
imaging of spin injection in semiconductors (Scott Crooker (NHMFL-Los Alamos)
and Victor Klimov (Chemistry Division)-mentors). My current research interests
include electronic spin and magnetic behavior of complex materials systems such
as self-assembled organic crystalline thin films, magnetic heterostructures and
semiconductor nanocrystal ensembles. Most recently my research group
collaborated with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) in
Tallahassee Florida on the world premiere of the first 25 Tesla
magneto-spectroscopy experiment in the unique Florida HELIX magnet. I am the
recipient of an NSF CAREER award and two NSF- DMR Major Research
Instrumentation (MRI) grants, one awarded in collaboration with UVM Material
Science faculty, the other in collaboration with the optics program at NHMFL. I was also co-PI on an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
education grant, a collaboration with UVM Material Science Faculty. Most
recently I became the faculty mentor for the Materials Research Society UVM
Chapter and expanded my work on organic semiconductors through a collaboration with researchers at Yamagata University. My passion for optics is also reflected in my photography hobby that I often employs in visually documenting the lives and
times of the Physics Department and the Material Science Program
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| Innovation Hall E225 82 University Place Physics Department Burlington, Vermont 05405-0125 e-mail: Madalina.Furis@uvm.edu Phone: 802.656.5177 FAX: 802.656.0817 |