Current Position: Engineer at Firefly Photonics LLC, Coralville, Iowa starting summer 2019

M.S. Dissertation Title: Encapsulation Strategies for Arsenide-based Core-Shell Nanowires Grown by Selective Area Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Lab Position: M.S. with thesis Candidate; Fall 2017 - Spring 2019

Personal Webpage: LinkedIn Profile

Alex joined the Toor Lab in 2017 and is a graduate student in the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Iowa. His research activities involve MBE growth, fabrication, and testing of  III-V nanowires.

Honors and awards: Tau Beta Pi; President’s Scholarship – Iowa State; Iowa State First Year Honors Program – Iowa State; Honorable mention in The Optical Society (OSA) 2018 After Image science photo contest

Undergraduate Education: Major: Materials Engineering (Magna Cum Laude); Spanish Minor in Hispanic Studies from Iowa State University