Research Opportunities

The following list of projects have been made available by participating UCF faculty for completion by applicants accepted into the Valencia-UCF PREP Program:
(Full project descriptions are provided in the links associated with each project).

Title: Investigations of the evolution of complex organic biomolecules from the interstellar medium to the Solar System
Principle Investigator: Christopher Bennett
Group Webpage: https://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/bennett-lab/

Title: Electrocatalytic Energy Conservation at Solid-Liquid Interfaces
Principle Investigator: Xiaofeng Feng
Group Webpagehttps://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/fenglab/

Title: Ionization radiation effects on carrier transport properties
Principle Investigator: Elena Flitsiyan
Group Webpagehttps://physics.ucf.edu/~flitsiyan/

Title: Atomic engineering of nanoscale materials
Principle Investigator: Masahiro Ishigami
Group Webpagehttps://physics.ucf.edu/~ishigami/

Title: Atomic-level surface-science investigations of novel supported thin-films
Principle Investigator: William Kaden
Group Webpagehttps://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/williamkaden/

Title: Advances in Density Functional Theory at solid interfaces
Principle Investigator: Abdelkader Kara
Group Webpagehttps://physics.ucf.edu/~kkara/

Title: THz emission from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
Principle Investigator: Richard Klemm
Group Webpagehttps://physics.ucf.edu/~klemm/

Title: Exploration of novel quantum materials
Principle Investigator: Yasuyuki Nakajima
Group Webpagehttps://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/nakajimalab/

Title: Discovery and Characterization of Novel Quantum Materials
Principle Investigator: Madhab Neupane
Group Webpage: https://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/neupane-group/

Title: Designing Advanced Materials with Novel Molecular Orbitals
Principle Investigator: Talat Rahman
Group Webpage: https://physics.ucf.edu/~talat/

Title: Advancing speciation of complex systems at the nanoscale
Principle Investigator: Laurene Tetard
Group Webpage: https://www.nanoscience.ucf.edu/tetard/

Title: Tracking electron and molecular dynamics at 2D nanostructured materials with femtosecond extreme ultraviolet laser pulses
Principle Investigator: Mihai Vaida
Group Webpage: https://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/vaidalab/