Dr. Batteas

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77842

PHONE: 979-458-2965; FAX: 979-845-4719

E-MAIL: batteas@neo.tamu.edu

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:

1990 B.S. Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin

1995 Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley

1996 Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University

APPOINTMENTS:

8/2005 – present Texas A&M University– Associate Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering

8/2002 – 8/2005 NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology – Research Chemist, Surface and Microanalysis

Science Division

8/1996-8/2002 College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York –

Asst. Professor of Chemistry (1996 – 2001); Assoc. Prof. of Chemistry 2001 – 2002 (with tenure).

Research Specialty: nanoscale materials and devices, tribological properties of oxide surfaces, molecular forces,

charge transport in organic molecules on surfaces, self-organizing nanoscale materials for device applications, protein-surface

interactions, plant biopolymers, and nanofabrication approaches for the development of electronic and sensing architectures.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS and ACTIVITIES:

Netzsch Instruments Frank Giblin Memorial Award in Polymer Analysis

(Soc. of Plastic Engineers – Polymer Analysis Division, 2001).

Feliks Gross Endowment Award for Outstanding Scholarship (CUNY Academy, 2001).

Associate member Sigma Xi (1990).

Chair, Polymer Analysis Division, Society of Plastic Engineers (present)

Member, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Materials Research

Society, Soc. of Plastic Engineers

Chair and Organizer: 1) Symposium on Scanning Probe Microscopy, SW Regional ACS Meeting, October 19-22, 2006; 2)

Symposium on Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces (Society of Plastics Engineers, ANTEC 2006, May 7-11, 2006); 3)

Symposium on High Resolution Microscopy of Polymers (Society of Plastics Engineers, ANTEC 2004, May 16-20, 2004); 4)

Symposium on Optoelectronic Materials (Society of Plastics Engineers, ANTEC 2003, May 4-8, 2003);

Organizer: Session on Molecular Electronics in Symposium on Self-Assembled Photonics, Pacifichem, December 15-20, 2005.