About this team member
Roya earned her PhD in Physics-Nanotechnology from Purdue University in 2008. Then she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology, Canada. Her expertises are on AFM, materials characterization and surface science, cellulose nanocrystals, carbn nanotubes, molecular electronics and nanocomposites. In 2011, she joined our group as an Assistant Research Scientist. She worked on the development of microfluidic patch-clamp techniques for measurement of biological membrane disruption as well as collaborating with groups from other universities to study cell interaction with different environments.