Jonathan E. Spanier
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Physics
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
"After completing his PhD, Spanier completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in physical chemistry at Harvard University with Hongkun Park prior to joining the Drexel faculty in 2003. He is presently Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and holds an affiliated appointments in the Department of Physics and in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Spanier currently investigates light-matter interactions in polar materials, focusing on the bulk photovoltaic effect and properties of new polar oxides and other perovskites. He is a co-inventor of the first semiconducting absorber that possesses a compositionally-tunable band gap spanning the visible spectrum and is simultaneously polar for promoting carrier separation without a junction."
Research Interest
"Light-matter interactions in electronic materials, including ferroelectric semiconductors, complex oxide thin film science; laser spectroscopy, including Raman scattering "
Publications
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A. Lam, D.B. Teplow, H.E. Stanley, and B. Urbanc, Effects of the Arctic mutation on the full length amyloid β-protein folding: A discrete molecular dynamics study J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 17413-17422 (2008). [PDF]
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T.L. Williams, L.C. Serpell, and B. Urbanc, Stabilization of Native Amyloid β-Protein Oligomers by Copper and Hydrogen Peroxide Induced Cross-Linking of Unmodified Proteins (CHICUP), Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1864, 249-259 (2016). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbapap.2015.12.001]
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B. Urbanc, L. Cruz, S. V. Buldyrev, S. Havlin, M. C. Irizarry, H. E. Stanley, and B. T. Hyman, Dynamics of Plaque Formation in Alzheimer Disease, Biophys. J. 76, 1330-1334, (1999). [PDF]
