Naomi Halas

Prof. Halas is the Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and founding director of the Laboratory for Nanophotonics at Rice University. Prof. Halas is one of the pioneering researchers in the field of plasmonics, creating the concept of the “tunable plasmon” and inventing a family of nanoparticles with resonances spanning the visible and infrared regions of the spectrum. She is a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow of the U.S. DoD, an advisor to the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the NSF, and advisor to the Director of Defense Sciences Office at DARPA. In 2002, she co-founded NanoSpectra, Inc. to commercialize nanoshell technology developed in her laboratory. Prof. Halas is a co-founder and adviser of technology and government grants at Syzygy.