Former Members

Since 1986 over 80 people have worked in the Laboratoy for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD), many of which are now distinguished scientist in academia and industry:

• Osman Akcakir
  Molecular Biology Consortium, Chicago Technology Park.
• Jose R Alcala
• Cosimo Arnesano
  Fellowship Student: University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
• Luis A Bagatolli
  Associate Professor: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Biomembrane Physics, University of Southern Denmark.
• Nicholas P Barry
  Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
• Joseph M Beechem
  Chief Scientific Officer: Invitrogen Corporation, Carlsbad, CA.
• Trisha Benson
  Secretary: Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Sabrina Beretta
• Keith M Berland
  Associate Professor: Physics, Biophotonics Lab, Emory University, Atlanta.
• Gabriele Bonaventura
  Graduate Student: University of Catania, Italy.
• Sophia Y Breusegem
  Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
• Larry Bucher
• Christof Buehler
  Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Vienna.
• Chittanon Buranachai
  Graduate Student: Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Mateo Calderon
  Neurological Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Jenny Carrero
• Claudia Casavola
• Anna Celli
  Postdoctoral Research Associate: Veterans Health Research Institute, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco.
• Albert E Cerussi
  Assistant Researcher: Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine.
• Yan Chen
  Research Associate: Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
• Melanie A Cheng
• Jee-Hyun Choi
  Senior Research Scientist: Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Center for Neural Science, Seoul, South Korea.
• Robert M Clegg
  Professor: Physics and Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Maria Lucia D'Amico
  Chimica e Biotecnologie Agrarie, Università di Pisa, Italy.
• Dawn Dallas
• Naser Darwish
• Chen-Yuan Dong
  Associate Professor: Microscopic Biophysics Laboratory, National Taiwan University.
• Dean A Eckhoff
• Julian Edler
• John S Eid
• Svante Eriksson
• Sergio Fantini
  Professor: Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
• Brett A Feddersen
  School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis.
• Mattia E Filiaci
• Rosamaria Fiorini
  Professor: Biochimica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
• Joshua B Fishkin
• Maria Angela Franceschini
  Photon Migration Lab, Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Charlestown.
• Elisa Frasnelli
  Fellowship Student: University of Trento, Italy.
• Todd E French
  Director of Research: Molecular Devices Corp., Sunnyvale, CA.
• Timothy J Fulmer
• Seth T Gammon
  Technical Marketing Specialist: RNAi library, Sigma, St. Louis, MO.
• Andre Gomes
  Laboratório de Termodinâmica de Proteínas e Estruturas Virais Gregorio Weber, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Universida de Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
• Monica Griani
• Rajarsi Gupta
  Graduate Student: Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Kerry M Hanson
  Professional Research Scientist: Chemistry, University of California, Riverside.
• Theodore L Hazlett
  Research Scientist: Center for Complex Biological Systems, University of California, Irvine.
• Thomas Kaasgaard
  Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark.
• Katarína Kis-Petiková
  Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary.
• Woo Seok Ko
  Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea.
• Shwayta Kukreti
  MD Student: MD/PhD Medical Scolars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Don C Lamb
  Professor: Department of Chemistry, LM University München, Germany.
• Luca Lanzano
  Visiting Student: National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy.
• Christine M Larson
• Jane Ellen Lawrence
• Claudia Y Lee
  Research Scientist: UVP, LLC. Upland, California.
• Mario Lera
  Research Associate: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy.
• Valeria Levi
  Adjunct Researcher: Laboratorio de Electrónica Cuántica, Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Natalia Machado
• Yeditha Mahalakshmi
• Zigurts K Majumdar
  Section on Medical Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, Bethesda, MD.
• Gerard Marriott
  Professor: Physiology, Madison Medical School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Sebastian McClendon
• Antonios Michalos
  Director of Medical Research: ISS Inc., Champaign, Illinois.
• Maria Minchenko
• Ginger Mohr
  Secretary: Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Joachim D Müller
  Associate Professor: Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
• Eleonora Nicolai
• Ulai Noomnarm
  Graduate Student: Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Andrea De Oliveira
  Laboratório de Termodinâmica de Proteínas e Estruturas Virais Gregorio Weber, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Universida de Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
• Richard C Pan
• Tiziana Parasassi
  Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Neurobiologia e Medicina Molecolare, Rome, Italy.
• Raymond Paseman
  Summer Intern: Harker School, San Jose.
• L Adelina Paunescu
  New England Eye Center, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Francesca Pellistri
• Gina M Perez
  Research Projects Manager: Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
• David W Piston
  Professor: Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, W M Keck Vanderbilt Free-electron Laser Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
• Chiara M Polzonetti
  Research Assistant: Child Development Center and Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine.
• Timothy M Ragan
  Post-doctoral Associate: Mechanical and Biological Engineering, Bioinstrumentation Engineering Analysis and Microscopy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
• Glen I Redford
  Intelligent Imaging Innovations Inc.
• Marcela L Redigolo
  Visiting Research Associate: Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine.
• Catherine A Royer
  Centre de Biochimie Structurale, Universite Montpellier I.
• Qiaoqiao Ruan
  Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL.
• Ruth M Rusch
• Larisa P Safonova
  Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia.
• Parijat Sengupta
  State University of New York at Stony Brook, School of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics.
• Alain Sillen
• Norberto Silva Jr
• Paul D Simonson
  Graduate Student: Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Peter T C So
  Professor: Mechanical and Biological Engineering, Bioinstrumentation Engineering Analysis and Microscopy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
• Bryan Q Spring
  Graduate Student: Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Frank Stühmeier
  Hit Discovery, Pfizer Central Research, Sandwich, UK.
• Jason D B Sutin
  Graduate Student: Single Molecule Biophysics & Nano-biotechnology group, College of Engineering, Boston University.
• Andrea Tacchetti
  Visiting Student: Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa.
• Abdel Tahari
  Graduate Student: Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Elliot Tan
  Research Scientist: Intel Corp, Portland, OR.
• Vladislav Toronov
  Assistant Professor: Physics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• M Alejandra Tricerri
  Visiting Scientist: Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
• Jay R Unruh
  Research Scientist: Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri.
• Martin J vandeVen
  Biomedical Institute, Laboratory of Cell Physiology, University Hasselt, Belgium.
• Valeria Vetri
  Department of Physical and Astronomical Sciences, University of Palermo.