Bio

Professor Justus Ndukaife is at Vanderbilt University where he heads the Laboratory for Innovation in Optofluidics and Nanophotonics (LION). He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 2017, during which time he was unanimously selected by Purdue University to receive the prestigious Chorafas Foundation Prize in Physics for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation for the year 2017, an award given to the best doctoral candidate at Purdue University every year. Among his recent honors and awards include an NSF CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation, NSF (NSF’s most prestigious award for young investigators positioned to serve as academic role models & leaders in research and education), Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research at Vanderbilt, designation as a global Rising Star of Light by Nature’s Light Science and Application, and Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. His other honors include 2016 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student research award, the NSBE Golden Torch Award as the Graduate Student of the Year in 2015, Best Paper Award at the ASME IMECE conference in 2015, and his selection to deliver the late-breaking talk at the prestigious Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics in 2016. His research works have been published in the top peer-reviewed journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Science, ACS Nano and Nano Letters.