My Student Octavia Ailsworth presented her research work “Analyzing cholesteric liquid crystals' properties and their disordered helical textures“ in the Session AA05: V: Undergrad Research I.

Octavia did a fantastic job, I am very proud of her. With her talk, she made my day, week, month, and year.

You can find the abstract for the talk here

I was recognized by the College of Arts and Sciences at Lincoln University of Missouri with this year award on “Excellence in Performance for New Faculty.”

I am very grateful and honored by this award. I was not expecting to win anything during these trying pandemic times.

Thanks to Lincoln University, The College of Arts and Sciences, my students (my main motivation to excel) and the colleague(s) that nominated me.

Last but not least, congratulations to Dr. Manish Singh, also winner of this award.

The awards luncheon will take place on August 17, 2022.

This year, colleague and collaborator Hillel Aharoni was awarded the International Liquid Crystal Society’s Early-career award Michi-Nakata. Many Congrats!!!

I am very honored and grateful to have our on-going work modelling a motorsport-shaped actuator, my name and face featured in his award lecture along with outstanding researchers as Y. Xia, S. Yang and R. Kamien.

You can find Hillel’s Michi-Nakata award lecture “Making Faces: Universal Inverse Design of Surfaces with Thin Nematic Elastomer Sheets” here. Enjoy!