Justus Ndukaife

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Intellectual Neighborhoods

• Biomedical Imaging and Biophotonics
• Nano Science and Technology

Research Focus

Professor Ndukaife’s research is at the interface between the fields of nanophotonics (which involves the confinement and manipulation of light at the deeply subwavelength scale) and microfluidics, as well as on novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots. Professor Ndukaife’s research interests include nano-optical trapping with plasmonic and resonant dielectric metasurfaces, programmable self-assembly of nanostructures for energy harvesting and on-chip single photon sources, novel emergent behavior in nanoscale motors, nano-biosensing, imaging, and novel optobiomechanical actuators and soft robots.

Biography

Justus Ndukaife received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 2017 during which he was selected for the 2017 prestigious Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation, an award given to the best doctoral candidate at Purdue every year. His other honors include the Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, the NSBE Golden Torch Award, and Best Paper Award at the ASME conference. His research works have been published in journals like Nature Nanotechnology, Science and ACS Nano.