People
Principal Investigator
Tonmoy Chakraborty
Tonmoy received his BSc.(2004) in Physics from the University of Calcutta and MS (2006) in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. After working in the semiconductor industry for a few years he joined Dr. Jonathan Petruccelli’s group at the State University of New York, Albany to finish his Ph.D. (2018) in the field of computational phase imaging. Thereafter, for his postdoctoral training (2018-2020), he joined the group of Dr. Reto Fiolka at UT Southwestern Medical Center in the Cell Biology department.
At UNM, his current interests involve developing microscopes for large scale imaging in tissues, particularly, light-sheet based fluorescence imaging tools. These next-generation microscopes are designed to investigate physiologically relevant samples by harnessing concepts from many different fields like physics, biology, computer-science and engineering.
Research Assistant Professor
Sheng Liu
Dr. Liu received her BS degree in Optical Information Science and Technology in 2009 from Beijing Jiaotong University, China. She received her PhD from Dr. Keith Lidke's lab at UNM in 2014. Her thesis was focused on the development of a phase retrieval algorithm for 3D single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM). After this, she joined Dr. Fang Huang’s lab at Purdue University in 2015 as a Postdoctoral Researcher and worked on the instrument and algorithm development of a 4Pi-SMLM system. She then joined Dr. Jonas Ries’ Lab at EMBL Heidelberg in 2020 as a Postdoctoral Researcher and worked on the further development of the 4Pi-SMLM system and a commercial MINFLUX system. To date, Dr. Liu has authored over 20 publications.
At Chakraborty-lab, she would like to extend her expertise in microscopy and develop new lightsheet platforms that have a significant impact on important biomedical research problems.
Graduate Students
Sayed Hassan Dibaji Foroushani
hassandibaji@unm.eduHassan Dibaji received a B.S. in Physics from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran in 2002 and an M.Sc. in Solid State Physics from the K.N.Toosi University of Technology Tehran, Iran in 2005. He has been a Ph.D. student in Optical Science and Engineering at the University of New Mexico since 2017. In graduate school, he researched the microfabrication of optoelectronic devices and material characterization. With Dr. Chakraborty, he intends to pursue his dissertation work where he wants to develop new optical techniques to solve interesting biological questions.
Md Nasful Huda Prince
nhprince05@unm.eduPrince received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh in 2011. He was awarded MBA major in Finance from the Institute of Business Administration under Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh in 2016. In the year 2021, he received his M.Sc. in EEE from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Besides his academic activities, he has a professional track record in the industry as well.
Mahsa Habibi
Mahsa received her B.Sc. in Atomic Physics from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, in 2017, and her M.Sc. in Optics and Laser from Kharazmi University, Iran, in 2021. While working in Nanophotonic Sensors and Optofluidics lab at Kharazmi University, she developed a nanophotonic biosensor for temperature sensing in a microfluidic platform. She started her Ph.D. studies in the Optical Sciences and Engineering program at the University of New Mexico in 2022. Joining Chakraborty Research Group, she will work on bio-imaging and new microscopy techniques.
Undergraduate Students
Graham Byrd
Graham was born in California and graduated from West Ranch High School in 2020. He began attending UNM that same year, seeking a degree in Physics with a concentration in Optics. He is currently working on a thesis in Physics as an undergrad.
His current research interests are in biological microscopy, as well as biomedical optics.
Andrew Scheck
Andrew is currently pursuing a B.A. in physics and math at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As part of an NSF-funded REU, Andrew will be conducting research with the Chakraborty group on light-sheet microscopy over the summer of 2022. Andrew hopes to pursue research in optics and its applications going forward.
