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Short Biography
Casas received her B.S. degree in chemistry from California State University Long Beach in 2018. As an undergraduate, she conducted research in the Stephen Mezyk lab using fluorescence to study the binding of different lanthanides to various chelating agents. Casas earned her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California Irvine in 2024 where she worked in the Nien-Hui Ge group utilizing 2D IR methods to study the dynamics of polymers. Between completing her Ph.D. and beginning her time in our department at UCLA, as an adjunct, Casas taught analytical and general chemistry at California State University Fullerton where she discovered her passion for teaching undergraduate students.
Research Interests
Here at UCLA, Casas conducts research in Professor Justin Caram’s lab where she studies the photoluminescence of HgTe quantum dots using single-molecule spectroscopy.
Honors & Awards
UCI 2023 Most Promising Future Faculty
Representative Publications
Casas, A. M., Idris, N.S., Wen, V., Patterson, J.P., Ge, N.-H. “Scattering Elimination in 2D IR Immune from Detector Artifacts,” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2024 128, 8835-8845. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c04220
Qian, C., Abelson, A., Casas, A. M., Capp, R., Vinogradov, I., Udagawa, N. S., Ge, N.-H., Law, M., “Photo-base-Triggered Formation of 3D Epitaxially Fused Quantum Dot Superlattices with High Uniformity and Low Bulk Defect Densities,” ACS Nano, 2022, 16, 3239. 10.1021/acsnano.1c11130
Leveille, M., Shen, X., Fu, W., Jin, K., Acerce, M., Wang, C., Bustamante, J., Casas, A. M., Feng, Y., Ge, N.-H., Hirst, L.S., Ghosh, S., and Lu, J., “Directional, Low-Energy Driven Thermal Actuating Bilayer Enabled by Coordinated Submolecular Switching,” Adv. Sci., 2021, 8, 2102077. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202102077