AREAS OF INTEREST:

• Plasmonics and Nanophotonics
• Soft-Lithography (Microcontact Printing)
• Planar Fabrication of Metallic Nano and Microstructures
• Chemistry and Characterization of Optically Active Nanoparticles
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy

BACKGROUND:

Cristin came to Rice University after receiving her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Tulsa. For one year prior to starting graduate school she taught chemistry and mathematics at Tulsa Community College and worked for Syntroleum Corp. Cristin joined the Halas Group in late 1998.

CURRENT WORK:

Cristin is currently a National Research Council Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.