I am a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, and a member of the Cancer Biology Program at the OSUCCC – James. I also serve as director of the Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS), a centralized, coordinated imaging facility that eliminates traditional boundaries among disciplines.
With over $39 million in equipment, CEMAS has one of the largest concentrations of electron and ion beam analytical microscopy instruments in any North American institution. Imaging and analytical facilities are complemented by extensive sample preparation facilities and supported by highly skilled staff with expertise in all aspects of electron microscopy. Recent investments in cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have been made to enable techniques like single particle analysis, cryo-electron tomography and micro electron diffraction to support structural and cellular biology imaging for cancer and other biomedical research.
I am involved in a number of research projects, including the development of precision measurement tools for advanced materials characterization that is funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory, as well as a project surrounding enamelysin-processing mechanisms in amelogenesis. My work has been published in such peer-reviewed journals as Nano Research and Scientific Reports.