Faculty/Researcher List

John T Fourkas

Millard Alexander Professor
UMD - Faculty

Research

Processing, Particles, Materials, Devices, Characterization

Synthesis and characterization of nanoporous materials; dynamics of liquids in nanoconfinement; synthesis, characterization and applications of metal nanoparticles; single-molecule spectroscopy; nonlinear optical microscopy; single nanoparticle optical probes; multiphoton micro- and nanofabrication; optical assembly of nanodevices; micro- and nanomagnetics; optical data storage; nonlinear ultrafast spectroscopy of liquids; optical manipulation of molecules and nanostructures

Professor Fourkas received a BS with honors and an MS, both in Chemistry, from Caltech in 1986. He was an NSF Predoctoral fellow at Stanfoprd University, where he was awarded a PhD in Physical Chemistry 1991. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin and at MIT as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow before becoming an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Boston College in 1994. He became an Associate Professor at BC in 2000, and a full Professor in 2001. While at BC he was named a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a Beckman Young Investigator, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He also spent time as a Visiting Fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colorado in 2002. He moved to the University of Maryland as the first Millard Alexander Professor of Chemistry in 2005. He is also a Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry.