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Alumni Profiles:
Brian Rodriguez
Brian received his doctorate in physics from North Carolina State University in December of 2003
under the supervision of Prof. Robert Nemanich (Physics, now at Arizona State University) and Prof.
Angus Kingon (Materials Science and Engineering, now at Brown University). His dissertation was
entitled "Nanoscale Investigation of the Piezoelectric Properties of Perovskite Ferroelectrics
and III-Nitrides." He is currently a Lecturer in Nanoscience at Ireland's largest university,
University College Dublin. The following is an interview with Brian about his experience as a
graduate student in the NC State Physics Department, how he got there, and where he's been since.
[Read more about Brian]
John Sakon
John received his doctorate in physics from North Carolina State University in November, 2010
under the supervision of Prof. Keith Weninger. His dissertation was entitled "Detecting the
conformation of individual proteins in live cells using single molecule fluorescence resonance
energy transfer." He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Neural Science at
New York University where he does cognitive neuroscience research on memory in nonhuman primates.
[Read more about John]
Brian Williams
Brian Williams received his doctorate in physics from North Carolina State
University in May 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Reynolds and Prof.
Kazimierz Borkowski. His dissertation was entitled "Supernova Remnants as a Probe of
Dust Grains in the ISM". He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at NC State and will
be taking a research position at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 2012.
[Read more about Brian]
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