Justus Ndukaife

Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been awarded the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award for 2024 to continue his innovative research in thermal emission. Justus Ndukaife Ndukaife is one of 24 recipients from over 220 applicants who will share nearly $18 million… Read More

Justus Ndukaife has received an Optica Foundation Challenge Prize to advance his optics research. He is one of 10 awardees and one of only three researchers in the United States to share the $1M prize. Justus Ndukaife The 2023 Challenge awardees were announced today during the opening plenary session… Read More

Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded the 2023 Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize for his commitment to teaching, mentoring, and community service. Justus Ndukaife At Vanderbilt, Ndukaife’s research includes the study of optically-resonant nanostructures, with an aim to confine and manipulate… Read More

Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is leading innovative research that more effectively traps nanosized extracellular vesicles and particles to analyze their roles in cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. Optical trapping of single extracellular vesicles and supermeres using optical anapoles. The research by Ndukaife and his collaborators was… Read More

A cutting-edge practice by two Vanderbilt researchers that enhances light in nanoscale structures could help in the detection of diseases like cancer. Quasi-BIC dielectric metasurface used to trap micro and sub-micron particles. The work by Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Sen Yang, a recent Ph.D. graduate from… Read More

Justus Ndukaife and John Wilson are among five Vanderbilt professors who won a Chancellor’s Award for Research at the 2021 Fall Faculty Assembly Aug. 26, 2021, where Chancellor Daniel Diermeier shared his priorities and aspirations for the new academic year and presented some of the university’s highest honors. Engineering professors… Read More

Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, spent 20 minutes describing his optical nanotweezers to a panel of five distinguished professors from the United States, Australia, and China during a live online competition—Rising Stars of Light—that has drawn 260,000 viewers worldwide. After two sessions in which 10 finalists presented… Read More

An assistant professor of electrical engineering has developed the first-ever opto-thermo-electrohydrodynamic tweezers, optical nanotweezers that can trap and manipulate objects as small as proteins and viruses. The technique, developed by Justus Ndukaife and two graduate students in his group, gives researchers a powerful new tool for the study and perhaps… Read More

Three engineering faculty have been named to the Center for Teaching’s Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program. Audrey Bowden Audrey Bowden, associate professor of biomedical engineering and associate professor of electrical engineering; Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science; and Ipek Oguz, assistant professor of computer science… Read More