Hamad-Schifferli Group

Mechanical and Biological Engineering

Ph.D.
2000
Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Research Advisor: A. Paul Alivisatos
Thesis title: "X-Ray and Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Structure, Reactivity, and Electronic Structure of the Surface"

November 1999-June 2002: The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Research Advisor: Joseph M. Jacobson

August 1994-November 1999: Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
Research Advisor: A. Paul Alivisatos

Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professorship, June 2005

Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching, School of Engineering, MIT, 2005

American Association for Clinical Chemistry Oustanding Speaker Award for 2003

Office of Naval Research YIP (Young Investigator Award), 2004

Homer A. Burnell Career Development Award, MIT, July 2002-2005

Clyde Sanfred Johnson Memorial Scholarship, UC Berkeley, January 1997

Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1994-1996

J.M. Jacobson, S. Zhang, J.J. Schwartz, K.S. Hamad, "Direct, Externally Imposed Control of Nucleic Acids," Filed 14 July 2001.
J.M. Jacobson, S. Zhang, J.J. Schwartz, K.S. Hamad, "Direct, Externally Imposed Control of Polypeptides," Filed 14 July 2001

MIT, Mechanical and Biological Engineering

Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems, Mechanical and Biological Engineering (2.772/20.110/5.602J)
Fall 2006 | OCW site, Fall 2005
Mechanics and Materials II (2.002)
Spring 2007 | OCW site