People

Current


Charles Rosenblatt Charles Rosenblatt Professor of Physics  rosenblatt@case.edu
Tim Atherton Tim Atherton
Postdoctoral Scholar
timothy.atherton@case.edu
Yoonseuk Choi Yoonseuk Choi
Postdoctoral scholar
yoonseuk.choi@case.edu
Ferjani Sameh Ferjani
Postdoctoral scholar
ferjani@fis.unical.it
Joel Pendery Joel Pendery
Graduate Student
joel.pendery@case.edu
Marie-Charlotte RenoultMarie-Charlotte Renoult
Graduate Student
jointly with Université Paris 6
mc.renoult@gmail.com
Wijangco Alex Wijangco
Undergraduate student
alexander.wijangco@case.edu


Alumni (Former Students, Postdocs, and Visiting Faculty)


Former Ph.D. Students
 
Zili Li Ph.D. 1990 Magneto and Electrooptic Study ofFerroelectricLiquid Crystals
now MTS at Motorola Corp., Schaumburg, IL 
AZL078@email.mot.com

Gregory DiLisi  Ph.D. 1992  Oligomeric Liquid Crystals: Viscoelastic Properties and Surface Interactions
now professor at John Carroll University, University Heights, OH
gdilisi@jcu.edu

Minhua Lu  Ph.D. 1992  Elasticity and Polarizations in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
now MTS at IBM Thomas Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hts., NY 
minhua@watson.ibm.com

Sanjay Tripathi Ph.D. 1995 Surfaces and Symmetries in LiquidCrystals
now MTS at L-3 Corp.
sanjay.tripathi@L-3com.com


Karl Crandall  Ph.D. 1996  Chirality and Interfacial Phenomenain Liquid Crystals
now network engineer at Darlington, Virginia
karlc@comcast.net


Jian-Feng Li Ph.D. 1997  Optical Studies of Molecular Architectureand Symmetry in Liquid Crystals
Institute of Fluid Phyiscs, the Chinese Acad. of Engineering Physics
jianfeng816@sohu.com

Daeseung Kang Ph.D. 1999 Surfaces and Chirality in Liquid Crystals
now Professor at Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea 
dkang@ssu.ac.kr


Milind Mahajan Ph.D. 2000 Interfacial and Gravitationally-Related Propertiesof Liquid Crystals and Other Fluids
now MTS at Rockwell Corp. Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA
mpmahajan@rsc.rockwell.com

Shiyong Zhang Ph.D. 2001 Electrooptic Switching of Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals
now MTS at General Digital
szhang@generaldigital.com


Wen Bing
Ph.D. 2003
Surface Control for Liquid Crystal Alignment
bwen@rwsc.com

Now MTS at Rockwell Corp. Science Center, Thousand Oaks, CA

 Reza Dodge

Ph.D. 2003
Electrooptical investigations of liquid crystalline mixtures
mrd@xray.kent.edu
now postdoc at CWRU

Neha M. Patel
Ph.D. 2004
Electrooptic studies of liquid crystalline phases and magnetically levitated aqueous bridges
neha.m.patel@intel.com

now MTS at Intel Corp., Phoenix, Ariz.

Ishtiaque M. Syed
Ph.D. 2006
Liquid Crystals on Modified Surfaces
ishtiaque75@gmail.com
now professor at University of  Dhaka, Bangladesh
Minhua Zhu
Ph.D. 2007
Liquid crystal tilt:  Control and consequences
now MTS at Kent Optronics, Hopewell Jcn., N.Y.
minhuazhu@kentoptronics.com
Zhibin Huang
Ph.D. 2008
Threshold Phenomena in Soft Matter
now postdoc at Ohio State University
zhibin.huang@osumc.edu



Former Postdocs

Robert B. Akins  Postdoctoral Fellow  now MTS at Motorola Corp., Chicago,IL 
era007@email.mot.com

Dong-Feng Gu Postdoctoral Fellow  now MTS at Rockwell Corp. ScienceCenter, Thousdand Oaks, CA 
dgu@scimail.risc.rockwell.com

John Zhong Postdoctoral Fellow  now MTS at Apple Computer, Cupertino,CA
jzhong@apple.com

Anjun (Larry/Jerry) Jin  Postdoctoral Fellow  now researcher at Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center
ajin@arc.nasa.gov

Jong-Hyun Kim Postdoctoral Fellow now professor at Choongnam University, South Korea
jxk97@cnu.ac.kr

Ghanshyam P. Sinha Postdoctoral Fellow now researcher at National Institutes of Health sinhag@nidcd.nih.gov

Tatsutoshi Shioda Postdoctoral Fellow
now professor at Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
tshioda@vos.nagaokaut.ac.jp

Giovanni Carbone
Postdoctoral Fellow
now lecturer/researcher at University of Calabria, Italy
giovanni.carbone@gmail.com
Matthew Sousa
Postdoctoral Fellow
now MTS ar 3M Corp., Minneapolis, MN
mesousa@mmm.com
Valentin Barna
Postdoctoral Fellow
now at Unverisity of Bucharest, Romania
barnavalentin@yahoo.com
Antonio De Luca
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
now at University of Calabria, Italy
antoniodelu@gmail.com

Ji-Hoon Lee Postdoctoral Fellow
now at NDIS Corp., Chungnam, Korea
dr.jihoonlee@gmail.com



Former Visiting Faculty

Prof. Michael R. Fisch Visiting Professor (1992, 1996) now at Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ. 
mfisch@lci.kent.edu

Prof.Helen Gleeson Mather Visiting Professor (1997) back at University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. 
helen.gleeson@man.ac.uk

Prof. Munehiro Kimura Visiting Research Scientist (1998-1999) back at Nagaoka University, Japan
nutkim@nagaokaut.ac.jp

 Daeseung Kang Visiting Professor (2006 - 2008)
back at Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea
dkang@ssu.ac.kr

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