People

Lead of the project in México and Principal Investigator (PI). Laser processing of materials and optical characterization.

Co-PI. Optical diagnosis, photodynamic therapy, optical trapping and propagation in scattering media.

Co-PI. Fiber optics development.

Lead of the project in USA and Principal Investigator (PI). Medical lasers and bio-transport phenomena.

Co-PI. Ceramics densification and processing.

Co-PI. Nanopowder synthesis.

Co-PI. Biomedical microdevices.

Co-PI. Biocompatibility.

Co-PI and Director of the Board of Advisors (BoA). Neurosurgery.

Solid state, pulse laser deposition, Raman spectroscopy.

Photoacoustics and biomedical applications.

Laser-induced cavitation; laser processing; and optical characterization.

Project management and biophotonics.

Propagation in scattering media.

Photodynamic therapy.

fs laser writing of waveguides in transparent polycrystalline ceramics; fs laser irradiation of bio-specimens.

Photodynamic therapy.

Optical sensors and microfluidics

Fiber optics based microheaters

Propagation in scattering media.

Optical trapping.

Optical trapping and photodynamic therapy.

Propagation in scattering media.

Waveguide laser writing and characterization.

Ultrashort pulse lasers and processing of materials laboratory management; ceramic polishing.

Duncan Z. Ashby received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Redlands in 2012 and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Riverside in 2015.

Dana Rutherford is grateful to be a second year Ph.D. student in Dr. Liu's Biomaterials and Nanomedicine Laboratory, in UCR's Bioengineering Department.

Nami Davoodzadeh is a Ph.D. student working in Guillermo Aguilar’s research team at the University of California, Riverside.

Samantha Corber. Samantha received her B.S. in Chemistry from Washburn University, Topeka, KS in 2015. She is currently a second year Ph.D student at The University of California, Riverside in mechanical engineering under advisement of Dr. Masaru Rao.

Gottlieb Uahengo Jr. received his B.Sc. in Physics from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN and a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Riverside.

Stephen Exarhos is a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student in Dr. Lorenzo Mangolini’s group at the University of California, Riverside, where he completed his MS titled “Aerosol Spray Pyrolysis Synthesis of CZTS Nanostructures” in 2015.

Rafael Páez received his B.S. in Physics from Universidad Veracruzana in México. Currently he is a Ph.D. student at INAOE, Puebla, México under the supervision of Professor RubénRamos-García.

MSc. Angel Arias Cruz received his BSc.degree in Applied Physics in 2013 form Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Puebla and his MSc. Degree in Optics in 2015 from INAOE, Puebla.

Carla Berrospe Rodríguez received her bachelor degree in Electronic engineering with a minor in optoelectronics.

Cruz Elizabeth Pérez Corona received her B. Eng. in Electronics from Universidad Quetzalcóatl in Irapuato, México and M.Sc. degree in Optics from INAOE in Puebla, México. Currently, She is a Ph. D. student in the Optics Department at INAOE

Dr. Rosario Porras-Aguilar received her PhD in optics (2009) and MSc in Astrophysics (2004) from the National Institute for Research in Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) and two postdocs in Ghent University (2009-2011) and the Warsaw University of Technology (2012-2014).

Julián Ramírez Ramírez has a degree in communications and electronics from the Universidad de Guanajuato and a MSc. degree in Optics from INAOE (Puebla)