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Edward Van Keuren Associate Professor Chair Department of Physics Reiss Bldg. 506 Georgetown University 37th O Sts. NW Washington DC 20057 Tel: +1-202-687-5982 Fax: +1-202-687-2087 Email: vankeu@ Web page: /~vankeu/ Education Ph.D. Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1990. Thesis dissertation: “Light Scattering Studies of Magnetic Particle Dispersions” Advisors: Dr. Alfred Bortz, Prof. Stanley Charap. M.S. Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, May 1986. QPA: 3.62/4.0. B.S. Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, May 1984. Summa cum Laude; QPA 3.93/4.0. One year of B.S. studies as exchange student, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Physics, October 1982-July 1983. Employment 8/99-7/05: Assistant Professor, 08/05-present Associate Professor, 07/07-present, Chair Department of Physics, Georgetown University. Teaching courses in undergraduate mechanics, undergraduate optics, and graduate advanced characterization methods. Researching organic nanoparticle preparation and characterization using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering and optical spectroscopy; developing nanoparticles as anti-cancer drugs and as MRI contrast agents; designing several types of polymer microchips for biomarker detection, and optical communications. 1/96-5/99: Research Scientist, BASF AG, Advanced Polymer Research, Yokkaichi, Japan. Manager of BASF’s nonlinear optics research lab in Japan. Contact person in Japan for BASF as member of the Nonlinear Photonics Materials project sponsored by the Japanese government (MITI). 5/93-1/96: Visiting researcher, National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba, Japan (Dept. of Polymer Chemistry, Dr. Hiro Matsuda). 9/90-10/92: Post-doctoral fellow, BASF AG, Department of Solid State Physics, Ludwigshafen, Germany. 1/85-5/90: Research assistant, Magnetics Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University. Ph.D. thesis project: “Li