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 Webpage: https://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/fenglab/
Title: Ionization radiation effects on carrier transport properties
Principle Investigator: Elena Flitsiyan
Group Webpage: https://physics.ucf.edu/~flitsiyan/
Title: Atomic engineering of nanoscale materials
Principle Investigator: Masahiro Ishigami
Group Webpage: https://physics.ucf.edu/~ishigami/
Title: Atomic-level surface-science investigations of novel supported thin-films
Principle Investigator: William Kaden
Group Webpage: https://sciences.ucf.edu/physics/williamkaden/
Title: Advances in Density Functional Theory at solid interfaces
Principle Investigator: Abdelkader Kara
Group Webpage: https://physics.ucf.edu/~kkara/
Title: THz emission from Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
Principle Investigator: Richard Klemm
Group Webpage: https://physics.ucf.edu/~klemm/
Title: Exploration of novel quantum materials
Principle Investigator: Yasuyuki Nakajima
Group Webpage: https://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/