Dr. Balassis' research is in condensed matter theory. He specializes in electronic excitations, electron energy loss spectroscopy, and image potential at solids, surfaces and nanostuctures. Dr. Balassis also studies THz radiation due to plasmon instabilities in low dimensional systems and current charge quantization in modulated 2D-graphene. He has published 13 papers and given 5 conference presentations.

Dr. Crooker's research is in the area of magnetic semiconductors. He uses an RF magnetron sputtering system to grow thin film samples. Dr. Crooker is a former Professor at Purdue University and the winner of several NSF grants. He also manages the Department's seismic observatory. Dr. Crooker is the author of over 30 papers including four with undergraduates.

Dr. Fessatidis' primary area of research is transport properties of novel semiconductor systems in confined geometries (zero, one, and two dimensions). He also does research on the physics of nanostructures in solid-state devices and quantum field theory methods in condensed matter physics. Dr. Fessatidis has presented at the March APS Conference consecutively for the past 17 years and has authored nearly 50 papers.

Dr. Haider's interests encompasses intermediate energy nuclear physics, with emphasis on formation of η-mesic nucleus, pion double-charge-exchange reactions and role of ρ-meson in nuclear physics. He predicted the existence of η-mesic nucleus which has been experimentally detected in 2008 by an international collaboration of experimental nuclear physicists in Juelich, Germany. Another area of his research is nuclear reactions, particularly fusion between two light nuclei at energies of astrophysical interest. He also studies the structure of elementary particles from the point of view of quark-gluon confinement inside a "Bag". He is a former Research Fellow at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and has authored over 40 papers including 2 with former Fordham students as co-authors.

Dr. Sanzari studies Medical Engineering Physics and Applied Optics. He is currently involved in biomedical and optics research as a Visiting Research Scientist at The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, NY. A former Program Manager at Kearfott Guidance and Navigation Corp., Dr. Sanzari is also an expert in superconductivity, quantum well devices, optical systems, and gyroscope design. He is the author of several patents and papers.

Dr. Shibayev's specialization is the physics of soft materials including organized polymers, liquid crystals and chiral nanostructures. In his research, he combines experimental work with theoretical modeling and computation. Dr. Shibayev has held Senior Researcher positions at institutions in 4 different countries on 3 different continents and currently does consulting work for L'Oreal of Paris. He was a co-investigator in the NATO for Peace Program and is a winner of the ISF Research award. He is the author of over 50 papers and several patents.

Dr. Ali's research has been in membrane biophysics, both experimental and computational. Implementing a number of physical and spectroscopic techniques like steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic light scattering, Dr. Ali studied several areas in membrane biophysics like lipid cholesterol interaction, membrane fusion and pH-dependent lipid-based delivery systems. Besides he also did Monte Carlo simulation to determine biomembrane relevant ternary phase diagram of lipids and cholesterol. Previously Dr. Ali also carried out research on thin semiconductor films and experimental magnetism.

Dr. Gayen’s primary research interest is in the area of nanophotonics. He has authored and coauthored several papers in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of quantum dynamics of charge carriers, time-resolved photoluminescence, and coherence phenomena in low-dimensional quantum systems, such as quantum wells, quantum wires, and quantum dots. Dr. Gayen’s research work has been presented in APS, OSA, and MRS meetings. He served as the technical and administrative coordinator of the Center for Nanoscale Photonics, funded by the US Army, at the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers in the City College of the CUNY.

Mr. Singco is a development engineer at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He worked for several years in nuclear core design and safety analysis at ABB. He was a research intern at Argonne National Laboratory-West in Idaho Falls and former staff member at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He now writes programming tools and data analysis utilities for IBM's next generation chip technologies.