Professor Dr. Andrea Martin

Biography

Prof. Armani received a B.A. in Physics from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology. She has received numerous awards, including the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award and being named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Currently, she is the Director of the Northrop Grumman Institute for Optical Nanomaterials and focuses on the research and development of novel nonlinear materials and integrated optical devices for use in portable disease diagnostics and telecommunications. Her research encompasses a wide range of topics, including materials synthesis, integrated optics instrument development, and computational modeling. In the materials synthesis area, she employs various deposition growth methods and polymerization reactions to create new optically active responsive materials. Her lab is actively engaged in projects that integrate optical components with silicon for telecommunications and biosensing applications, including the development of portable optical sensors for water monitoring and new instruments for enhanced temporal resolution in cell signaling detection. Additionally, she conducts finite element and finite difference time domain modeling to complement her experimental work.

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