{"id":31,"date":"2015-11-03T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.eng.ufl.edu\/faculty-site\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:13:11","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant Ural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/Photo_reduced_size-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo_reduced_size\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/Photo_reduced_size-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/Photo_reduced_size-152x210.jpg 152w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2016\/05\/Photo_reduced_size.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong> in Electrical Engineering, <strong>Stanford University<\/strong>, Stanford, California, USA, 2001.\n<ul>\n<li>Advisor: Prof. James D. Plummer, Co-advisor: Dr. Peter B. Griffin<\/li>\n<li>Dissertation Title: Atomic-scale mechanisms of impurity and self-diffusion in silicon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>M.S<\/strong><em>.<\/em> in Electrical Engineering, <strong>Stanford University<\/strong>, Stanford, California, USA, 1997.\n<ul>\n<li>Area of specialization: Solid-state materials and devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>B.S.E.<\/strong> in Electrical Engineering and Physics, <strong>Princeton University<\/strong>, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1995.\n<ul>\n<li>Graduated <em>magna cum laude<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Area of specialization: Electronic materials and devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>WORK EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Associate Professor <\/strong>(tenured), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, 2010-present.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visiting Scientist<\/strong>,\u00a0Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Nanoscale Science Department, Stuttgart, Germany, 2012-2013.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Assistant Professor <\/strong>(tenure-track), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, 2003-2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Postdoctoral Fellow<\/strong>, Department of Chemistry and the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, 2001-2003.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Nanoscale electronic and photonic materials and devices. Nanoscience, nanofabrication, nanotechnology, and nanoengineering.\u00a0 Emerging materials and devices beyond Moore\u2019s law.\u00a0 Controlled growth and heterogeneous integration of nanomaterials with silicon technology. Fundamental electronic and optical properties of low dimensional nanostructures.\u00a0 Carbon nanotubes, semiconductor nanowires, graphene, and other emerging 2D materials for electronic and photonic devices, flexible electronics, advanced display technology, energy, biomedical, and IoT applications.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>HONORS AND AWARDS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Junior Faculty Development Award, <\/strong>Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education (SCEEE), 2006.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MRS Graduate Student Silver Award<\/strong>, for \u201csignificant and timely research\u201d presented at the Materi\u00adals Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 2000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Corbett Prize<\/strong>, for \u201cthe best paper presented by a young scientist\u201d at the 20th International Confer\u00adence on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS-20), Berkeley, California, USA, 1999.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Solid<\/strong><strong> State<\/strong><strong> Industrial Affiliates Research Fellowship\u00a0Award<\/strong>, Stanford University, 1995-1997.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Peter Mark Prize<\/strong>, for \u201cthe best senior thesis in electronic materials and devices\u201d, Princeton University, 1995.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sigma Xi<\/strong>, elected to membership, 1995.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tau Beta Pi<\/strong>, elected to membership, 1994.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>EDITORIAL\u00a0ACTIVITIES<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Associate Editor<\/strong> of <em>IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Member of editorial board<\/strong> of <em>Nano Communications.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), elected Senior Member, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS)<\/li>\n<li>IEEE Nanotechnology Council<\/li>\n<li>Materials Research Society (MRS)<\/li>\n<li>American Physical Society (APS)<\/li>\n<li>The Electrochemical Society (ECS)<\/li>\n<li>The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0EDUCATION Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, 2001. Advisor: Prof. James D. Plummer, Co-advisor: Dr. Peter B. Griffin Dissertation Title: Atomic-scale mechanisms of impurity and self-diffusion in silicon M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, 1997. Area of specialization: Solid-state materials and devices B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Physics, Princeton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/ant-ural\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}