Dr. Kevin Daniels is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and director of the Dimensional Materials Laboratory (DML), which focuses on exploiting the electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of 2D and low-dimensional materials synthesized in the lab for chemical and biological sensing, quantum science and plasmonics.
He received his B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 2009, 2012, and 2014 respectively.From 2014 to his start at UMD, Dr. Daniels served as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow residing at the US Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC). There he investigated the growth of wide bandgap materials, like silicon carbide (SiC), for power electronics and two-dimensional epitaxial graphene for high-speed communications and sensors.
He is a National Science Foundation CAREER award (2022) recipient, andhis scientific contributions have led to 40 publications and numerous presentations on 2D and wide bandgapsemiconductor material synthesis, characterization, and applications.