As part of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Lecture Series, distinguished scientist Sudipta Seal is scheduled to present “Length scale effects in nanoceria and its role in nano-biotechnology” Sept. 24 at 1 p.m. in Sudro Hall room 22. After the presentation Seal will meet with faculty and graduate students. The seminar is open to anyone interested in pharmaceutical, biomedical and nanotechnology research.

Seal earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; master’s degree from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; and bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at University of California-Berkeley. His degrees are in materials science and engineering, with a minor in biochemistry and surface science.

Seal join the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center and College of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida in 1997. He has served as NanoInitiative coordinator for the vice president of research and commercialization.

Seal has received funding as principal investigator and co-principal investigator in fundamental and application oriented research in materials engineering, surface engineering and nanomaterials technology and education-related research projects. He has more than 250 publications and 21 patents.

He received the 2002 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, ASM IIM Lecturer Award and Japan Society of Promotion of Science Award, and was an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow and Royal Society of Engineering elected visiting professor fellow at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. 

For more information on the seminar, contact Jagdish Singh at 1-7943.