Prof. Ndukaife is one of 10 global recipients of Optica Challenge Prize and recognized at the Plenary session of the Frontier in Optics and Laser Science meeting!
Oct. 11, 2023— Ndukaife wins Optica Challenge Prize
Prof. Ndukaife wins Best and Brightest: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award!
Oct. 1, 2023—Ndukaife wins distinguished Office of Naval Research Award
Congratulations to Guodong on winning Best Poster Award at SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference
Sep. 18, 2023—Guodong’s poster is entitled: “High performance sensor based on bound states in the continuum (BIC)”
Professor Ndukaife is the recipient of the 2023 Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize!
Aug. 16, 2023—Ndukaife was recognized for For unwavering commitment to teaching, mentoring, and community service by fostering the growth and development of students and early-career professionals within his local community and in Africa.
Our latest paper on scalable trapping of EVs using plasmonics appears in Nature Communications
Aug. 9, 2023—https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40549-7
Prof. Ndukaife wins NIH MIRA R35 Outstanding Investigator Award at NIGMS
Aug. 9, 2023—https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/08/04/justus-ndukaife-wins-1-9m-from-national-institutes-of-health-to-build-on-foundational-knowledge-of-nanoscale-cellular-particles/
Our latest paper on Anapole-assisted optical trapping appears in Nano Letters!
Jul. 31, 2023—https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02014
Our article on merging metasurfaces with microfluidics appears in Nature Nanotechnology!
Jan. 23, 2023—Check out the press release here: https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/news/2022/vanderbilt-electrical-engineering-professor-publishes-paper-on-merging-metasurfaces-with-microfluidics/
Professor Ndukaife wins the prestigious NSF CAREER Award!
Mar. 30, 2022—The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
Professor Ndukaife receives Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research!
Aug. 26, 2021—https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/08/30/thirteen-faculty-members-honored-at-fall-faculty-assembly/
Our recent paper on “nanoparticle trapping with quasi-BIC system” appears in ACS Photonics!
Jun. 22, 2021—Download here
Our latest paper on dynamic manipulation of single nanodiamonds with NV center appears in Nano Letters!
Jun. 11, 2021—https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00357
Congrats to Sen Yang for winning 3rd place prize at the VINSE Nano-day presentation
Nov. 4, 2020—Sen’s project is on “Particle trapping in symmetry-breaking system”
