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Giuliano Scarcelli, PhD
Giuliano Scarcelli, PhD

Giuliano Scarcelli is an associate professor at the University of Maryland in the Bioengineering department and the Biophysics program. Giuliano obtained his PhD in physics with a EU-funded fellowship between the University of Bari, Italy and UMBC, USA under the supervision of quantum optics pioneer Prof. Yanhua Shih. Giuliano then was at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine of Harvard Medical School for eight years, first as a postdoc in Prof. Yun's Lab, then as an instructor and assistant professor. He joined University of Maryland in 2015. Giuliano has been the recipient of several awards such as the “Exceptional by example” award for outstanding PhD studies, the Tosteson Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard, the Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Award, the NIH Quantitative Career Award, the NSF CAREER award and “Teaching excellence” awards from both Harvard University and University of Maryland.

PostdocToral Fellows

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Yogeshwari Ambekar, PhD
Hongyuan Zhang, PhD
Hongyuan Zhang, PhD

Hongyuan got his PhD degree of Optical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2016. Currently, he is applying spontaneous Brillouin scattering to in-vivo measurement of corneal biomechanics, aiming at understanding stiffness variation caused by different diseases.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

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Xuewen (Maggie) Zhou
Xuewen (Maggie) Zhou

Xuewen (Maggie) Zhou joined Scarcelli's lab in Fall 2019 after her two-year research experience at FDA (DBP of OSEL, CDRH) with Dr. William C. Vogt on developing consensus test methods for photoacoustic imaging quality assessment. Maggie is currently working on developing VIPA-based high-resolution spectrometer and its applications in biomechanics. Her research interests include biomedical imaging, biocompatible optical sensors, and high-resolution optical spectroscopy.

Romanus Hutchins

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Raymundo Rodriguez

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Justin Schumacher

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Jake Rosvold
Jake Rosvold

After graduating with his B.S. in Optical Engineering and M.S. in Optics from the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics, Jake joined the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at UMD as a Ph.D. student in the Fall of 2020. An avid lens designer, Jake enjoys using his optical modeling background in his current research involving heat-based tunable planar optics for fast focus control. Brewing coffee in every way possible and reading any book in sight keeps him busy when he is not neck-deep in research. With a passion for law, he aims to become an Intellectual Property Attorney in the not-too-distant future.

Chenchen Handler

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Undegraduate Research Assistants

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Varun Deshpande

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Adam Birzri

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ALUMNI

Postdocs

Dr. Jitao Zhang - Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit

Dr. Johnny Su - Postdoc, Duke University

Dr. Giulia Zanini - Crest Optics

Graduate Students

Eitan Edrei - Postdoc, Hebrew University, Israel

Tony Fiore - Postdoc, Janelia HHMI

Josh Webb - Technical leaders program, Northrop Grumman

Christina Conrad - Postdoc, NIH

Milos Nikolic - Postdoc, Princeton University

Stephanie Lashley - Harvard University

Eric Frank - George Washington University- Law School

Undergraduate Research assistants

Kripa Patel - Grad student - Columbia

Kim Berghaus - Grad student - JHU

Angelina Nou - Grad student, MIT

Tom Mumford - Grad student, UPenn

Erin Langille-

Jessica Conway-

Ethan Parnass-

Amritha Jayanti - Belfer Center- Harvard

Caroline Dong -

Ladeja Robinson-

Joe Puthumana-

Jovy Batong -

Lydia Runnals - Medical Assistant, MA

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