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Curriculum Vitae
Ryan Molecke

Research Interests:

Bio-nano interfaces, protein interactions / chain reactions, diagnostics and treatment of genetic diseases, virology, self-assembling systems, sol-gel systems, optical tweezers, nanoscale electronics and logic systems, molecular dynamics, modeling of nano-scale systems, applied and pure mathematics

Professional Experience:
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Mar 2003 - Dec 2004 (Electrical and Computer Engineer Department)
      Undergraduate Research Assistant, Plasma & Fusion Research Lab
      I built a 1kA IGBT-based pulser and accompanying 1F cap bank
      I was also the ECE department webmaster for my junior year in Computer Engineering.

June 2005 - Jan 2006 (Electrical and Computer Engineer Department)
      Undergraduate Intern, Intel Corp., Product Engineer in handheld sort
      Industrial microchip testing, dispositioning, and failure analysis

Aug 2004 - Present (Spatio-Temporal Cell Pathology Group)
      Software engineer maintaining a cellular spatial statistics calculator

Aug 2007 - Present (Applied Mathematics Department)
      Fellow in nanoscience (1st year rotations listed below)
           - User interfaces and cellular statistics
           - Anisotropic crystal growth
           - Optical microscopy and sol-gel methods

Publications:

"Experimental Investigation of Active Feedback Control of Turbulent Transport in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma"
S. Will, M. Gilmore, C.T. Abdallah, J. Herrera, R. Molecke, S. Xie, 46th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, Nov 2004 Savannah, GA (poster session)

"Modeling Nanocrystal Shape Evolution on Patterned GaAs Substrates Using Dynamic Wulff Shape Progressions"
R. Molecke, P.S. Wong, G. Balakrishnan, and D.L. Huffaker, 25th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference, Sept 2007 Albuquerque, NM (poster session)
(manuscript to be submitted soon)

"Cellspan: A TCL/TK Graphical User Interface to Cellular Spatial Statistics Modeling with R"
R. Molecke, S. Steinberg, B. Wilson, D. Roberts, J. Zhang (in development)

"Modeling Zinc-blende Atomic Lattices as Cubic"
R. Molecke, G. Balakrishnan, D.L. Huffaker (in development)

"Interparticle Interaction Measurements using Laser Tweezers" A. Grillet, C.M. Brotherton, T.P. Kochler, M.D. Reichert, R. Molecke (poster session)

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