​University Partnerships is pleased to announce Dr. Bernard Yurke as INL's first Distinguished Joint Appointment Fellow. This new appointment category recognizes incoming professors who have stature in the national and international research community and bring prestige to INL through their joint appointment.
INL is interested in expanding emerging core capabilities in chemical and molecular science, and in condensed matter physics and materials science. One way to do so is to develop a partnership with researchers in materials science at Boise State University. Currently, Yurke and his colleagues in Boise State's Nanoscale Materials and Device group are conducting research in excitonics and quantum computing using biomolecular self-assembly. Researchers have expertise in photonics, plasmonics, DNA nanotechnology and optical and electrical characterization of nanodevices.
Yurke will visit INL quarterly to interact with other fellows and scientists, establishing collaborations and pursuing funding from DOE. In addition, he will continue to support and grow research activities within theNanoscale Materials and Device Group at Boise State. He also will supervise a graduate student and host INL scientists at Boise State.
"It is necessary for our lab to expand emerging core capabilities in chemical and molecular science, and condensed matter physics and materials science in ways that will enable our applied missions," said Kelly Beierschmitt, INL's deputy lab director and chief research officer. "One way to do this was to develop a partnership with researchers in materials science at Boise State University. We are thrilled to add Dr. Yurke and the Boise team to our community."
