Education

• PhD. University of Groningen, 2006

• BS. The West University of Timisoara, 2001

Honors and Awards

2024 - Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)

2022 - Pegram Award from APS Southeastern Section (SESAPS) 

2022 - NSF Special Creativity Award

2021 -  Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) 

2020 - Graduate School Student Association Faculty Excellence Award

2018 - Physics Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award

2018 - URECA Award For Excellence in Mentorship in Research and Creative Work

2017  - Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award

2015  - WFU Award for Excellence in Research

2014  - Featured in J. Mater. Chem. C's Emerging Investigators Issue

2013 - Wake Forest Innovation award

2013 - NSF CAREER award

2013 - Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching

2012 - Wake Forest University Faculty Endowment Fund Fellowship 

2012 - Physics Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award

2010  - ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

Advisory and Editorial Work

• Associate Editor of  Journal of Materials Chemistry C  (RSC ), from 2019   

• Associate Editor of Materials Advances  (RSC ), from 2020

• Advisory Board Member of Chemical Physics Reviews (AIP ), from 2021

• Advisory Board Member of Organic Electronics  (Elsevier), 2020 

• Advisory Board Member of J. Phys Materials (IOP Publishing), from 2019

• Guest editor for a special issue of Advanced Functional Materials (Wiley), 2019-2020

• Editorial Board member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 2012 -2020

• Associate Editor of Journal of Electronic Materials (Springer), 2013 – 2017

Postdoctoral researchers

Graduate students

Undergraduate students

Vacancies

For questions and more details email oana@wfu.edu.

Alumni

Colin Tyznik ('21) - Sandia National Lab

Hamna Iqbal ('21) - NCSU

Andrew Zeidell ('20) - American Institute of Physics

Peter Diemer ('20) - Wake Forest University

Zach Lamport ('19) - Columbia University, then Exponent

Robby Bradford ('19) - Lockheed Martin

James Lee ('19) - Federal Reserve

Sajant Anand ('18) -  University of Cambridge 

Katrina Barth  ('18) -  Duke University

Laura Jennings  ('18) - Dow Corning

Ben Scharmann  ('18) - Georgia Tech

Shengcheng Chen  ('18) - UC Berkeley

Angela Harper ('17) - University of Cambridge 

Jacori Hayes, ('16) - FC Dallas (pro soccer)

Hannah Smith ('16) - Princeton University 

Katelyn Goetz ('16) - Heidelberg Univ., Germany

Yaochuan Mei ('16) - Industry 

Jeremy Ward ('15) - Air Force Research Lab

Abdul Obaid ('15) - Stanford University

Andy Vuong ('15) - UCLA

Derek Fogel ('15) - Colorado School of Mines

Maggie Payne ('14) - UC Berkeley 

Loah Stevens ('13) - Rice University

Chris Lyle ('13) - Columbia University

Alyssa Brigeman ('13) - Penn State 

Jack Owen ('12) - GE

Natalia Azarova ('11) - CU Boulder

Daniel David ('10) 

Daniel Gallagher ('10)

Claire McLellan ('10) - UC Santa Barbara

Anna Pitz ('10) -  VCU