Triantafillos J. (Lakis) Mountziaris
Synthesis of nanostructured photonic materials
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As of January 2021:
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Houston
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6bRzrSQAAAAJ
Mountziaris has more than 30 years of experience as an academic leader and faculty member at UMass-Amherst and the University at Buffalo — the State University of New York, and as a program director at the National Science Foundation. He has supervised 24 doctoral and 30 master’s advisees and supported their research with grants from federal and industrial sponsors. He has co-authored more than 80 research papers, edited two books, and is co-inventor on three U.S. patents.
He is the recipient of several honors and awards, including the Norman Hackerman Award of the Electrochemical Society, the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching of the State University of New York, the Chancellor’s Exceptional Merit Award of UMass-Amherst, numerous keynote and invited lectures, and honorary visiting professorships at ETH-Zürich and Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Historical - Mountziaris Research Group
Principal Investigator: Professor T.J. Mountziaris
Research Assistant Professor:Dr. Jun Wang
Ph.D. Candidates:
- Haley Keister
Undergraduate Researchers (2014-18)
- Matthew Crotty (Senior Honors Thesis)
- Nicholas Lagasse
- Benjamin Rizkin
- Brittany Shepler
- Joshua Tran (Senior Honors Thesis)
Mountziaris Research Group Alumni
| Ph.D. Alumni | Last known employer |
| 1. Syed Anwar Safvi (1994) | California Energy Commission, Sacramento, CA |
| 2. Nitin K. Ingle (1995) | Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA |
| 3. Vijay Gupta (1997) | RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC |
| 4. Constantinos Theodoropoulos (1999) | Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK |
| 5. John D. Peck (1999) | Praxair, Tonawanda, NY |
| 6. Vassilios I. Sikavitsas (2000) | Professor, University of Oklahoma (co-advised with Prof. J.M. Nitsche) |
| 7. Roger P. Pawlowski (2000) | Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM |
| 8. Demetrius Sarigiannis (2001) | Praxair, Tonawanda, NY |
| 9. Maria Koutsona (2002) | ExxonMobil, Houston, TX |
| 10. Georgios Karanikolos (2005) | Assistant Professor, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi (co-advised with Prof. P. Alexandridis) |
| 11. Christos Sarigiannidis (2005) | Evonik Industries, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 12. Jun Wang (2006) | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
| 13. Borislava Kostova (2006) | ExxonMobil, Houston, TX |
| 14. Bing C. Mei (2008) | Avon, White Plains, NY |
| 15. Joungmo Cho (2009) | Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, Korea |
| 16. Tracy Heckler-Panzarella (2010) | Saint-Gobain, Northboro, MA |
| 17. Tejinder Singh (2010) | Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA (co-advised with Prof. D. Maroudas) |
| 18. Sreekumar Kuriyedath (2011) | Samsung Electronics, Korea |
| 19. Sumeet Pandey (2011) | Micron Technologies, Boise, ID (co-advised with Prof. D. Maroudas) |
| 20. Ryan Reeves (2013) | Mainstream Engineering Corporation, Rockledge, FL |
| 21. Sheng Chu (2014) | Natural Systems Utilities, Hillsborough, NJ (co-advised with Prof. P. Dauenhauer) |
| 22. Ying Qi (2015) | Entegris, Inc., Billerica, MA |
| 23. Xu Han (2015) | University of Massachusetts (co-advised with Prof. D. Maroudas) |
| 24. Robert Coolman (2016) | University of Wisconsin-Madison (co-advised with Prof. G.W. Huber) |
| M.S. Alumni | Last known employer |
| 1. Subramanian Kalyanasundaram (1991) | CSO at Strand Life Sciences, India |
| 2. Yijian (Michael) Jin (1994) | McKinsey & Company, NJ |
| 3. Tufail Ahmad (1994) | M.W. Kellogg & Co., Inc., Houston, TX |
| 4. Gregory F. Gorsuch (1995) | Seagate Technologies, Santa Clara, CA |
| 5. Constantinos Theodoropoulos (1996) | Professor, University of Manchester, UK |
| 6. William B. Andrews (1996) | PerSeptive Biosystems, Framingham, MA (co-advised with Prof. M.E. Ryan) |
| 7. Xiaowei Lin (1996) | Lucent Technologies, Orlando, FL |
| 8. Cyndi Lynn Brodbeck (2000) | Advanced Refractory Technologies, NY |
| 9. Chiao Wen (Cheryl) Liu (2000) | Motorola, Austin, TX |
| 10. Nga-Leung (Vera) Law (2005) | USPTO, Alexandria, VA |
| M.Eng. Alumni | Last known employer |
| 1. Charalabia Economou (1995) | EasyJet, Europe |
| 2. Sheldon Meyers (1996) | ASM Lithography, Inc., East Fishkill, NY |
| 3. Thomas E. Gebo (1998) | Xerox Research Center, Rochester, NY |
| 4. Vincent Ip (1996) | Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA |
| 5. Sumanthini Jayaratnam (1997) | General Mills, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa |
| 6. Jun Wang (1998) | IBM Corporation, East Fishkill, NY |
| 7. Neeraj Mehta (1999) | Fisher-Price, Inc., East Aurora, NY |
| 8. Garkay Leung (2000) | MiCRUS, Inc., East Fishkill, NY |
| 9. Danijela Milosevic (2001) | SIFCO, Cleveland/Akron, OH |
| 10. Daniel Boek (2002) | Braskem, Huntington, WV |
| 11. Rebecca Stadler (2002) | Practicing Law in Buffalo, NY |
| 12. Dannis Prasadi (2002) | Oil & Energy, Indonesia |
| 13. Eveline Buchatskiy (2003) | Praxair, Inc., Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
| 14. Tamara E. Brown (2003) | Praxair, Inc., Tonawanda, NY |
| 15. Gabriel Nahigian II (2003) | UOP, Inc., Tonawanda, NY |
| 16. Melanie Hand (2004) | USPTO, Atlanta, GA |
| 17. Travis Reese (2004) | GE Energy, Albany, NY |
| 18. Kim Helmer (2005) | ENrG, Inc., Buffalo, NY |
| 19. Jerry Hunt (2006) | Nalco Mobotec, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 20. Siew Shee Lim (2006) | Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus |