2020 - Ziad Ganim at Science on Saturdays

Join us on April 4th to hear Prof. Ziad Ganim talk about “Hold it, Stretch it, See it: How to interact with the nanoscopic world.” (CANCELED due to COVID-19)

Science Saturdays is an award-winning lecture series designed for families that brings the excitement of research and the passion of scientists to the community. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and hands-on science demonstrations run by Yale College students. This weekend will feature an inflatable planetarium! Bring the whole family! Refreshments will be served. Free parking is available at the Sachem-Prospect Garage on Prospect Street. Entrance to the garage is in the Yale Ingalls Ice Rink lot. For more event information go to: www.yale.edu/scienceoutreach

Time: Demonstrations by Synapse of Yale Scientific Magazine from 10am - 11am; Talk from 11am - noon. 

Location: Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, 225 Prospect Street

Dr. Ziad Ganim picture.

About Dr. Ziad Ganim:

Positions Held

07/01/14 – current Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Yale University

12/02/12 – 06/30/14 Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Biophysics, Technical University of Munich (Advisor: Matthias Rief)

08/21/10 – 12/01/12 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Biophysics, Technical University of Munich (Advisor: Matthias Rief)

Education

05/21/10 Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Advisor: Andrei Tokmakoff)

05/24/03 B.S. (High Honors) in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Honors and Awards

08/21/10 – 12/01/12 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship

08/04/08 – 08/03/09 Poitras Predoctoral Fellowship

05/15/08 – 08/03/08 Daniel S. Kemp Fellowship

03/05/07 Lester Wolfe Fellowship

05/27/06 Vivian A. and E. Emerson Morse Travel Grant

06/01/04 MIT Chemistry Outstanding Teaching Assistant

05/25/03 University of California Departmental Citation in Chemistry

More info about Dr. Ganim can be found here