Principal Investigator
Dr. Daniela Radu
Group Principal Investigator, Associate Professor
NASA CRE2DO Center Director
NSF PREM Center Director
Research Interests:
- Nanostructured materials for solution-processed solar photovoltaics: Gen 2 PV (thin film crystalline absorbers)
- Advanced functional materials for optoelectronic applications 2D nanostructures and lasing materials
- Chalcogenide nanoparticles for photothermal cancer therapy: CuxS
- Sensor design: detecting heavy metals, nitrates and phosphates in water
- Engineered nanoparticles: toxicity evaluation.
- Materials for Quantum Science and AI
- Perovskite solar cells
- Low-dimensional Perovskite
- Additively Manufactured Electronics
- Plant-based Nanomaterials for Optoelectronics
- Spinning Fiber for Soft Electronics Applications
Contact Info:
dradu@fiu.edu
(305) 348-4506
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Neetesh Kumar
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests:
2D/3D Perovskite solar photovoltaics, semiconducting thin films, plasmonics materials, namomaterials and biomaterilas for optoelectronic device applications.
Dr. Navdeep Kaur
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests:
Dye-Sensitized and Perovskite Solar Photovoltaics, Metal Oxide-based gas sensors
Graduate Students
Roberto Prado-Rivera
Ph.D Student in Mechanical Engineering – NASA Fellow
Research Interests:
Computational methods of solid-state physics, 2D nanomaterials, nanostructured semiconductors, phase control of layered materials..
Tim Chen-Yu Chang
Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Solar cells, batteries, inorganic synthesis of semiconducting chalcogenide materials.
Rishabh Sahani
Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Perovskite solar cells, 2D perovskites
Melissa Venedicto – FIU Presidential Fellow
Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
2D Materials, Multifunctional Mesoporus Silica Nanoprticles (MSN) for Theranostic Nanomedicine, Hybrid materials for Regenerative Medicine
Daniel Muñoz
Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Perovskite solar photovoltaics
Jeffrie Fina
Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Dye-sensitized and tandem perovskite solar photovoltaics.
Linisha Biswal
Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Plasmonic nanocrystal-based sensors.
Dakota Thomas
Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
High-throughput additive manufactured electronics.
Past Students and Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Mimi Liu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mujtaba Ali Haqqani
Master’s in Engineering Management
Interested in joining our group or collaborating? Please contact Dr. Radu at dradu@fiu.edu .