Tran Thi Mai, PhD
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering program, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Biography
Dr. Mai Tran is an experimental physicist specializing in microscopy, optics, biophysics, and material science. Her current research concentrates on developing a 3-D polarized light microscope for cells and tissue imaging.
• Microscopy
• Optics
• Materials science
• Sensor
• Biophysics
• Nanotechnology
• Physics I, Physics II, Physics III
• Math for Physicists and Engineers
• Introduction of Optics
1. Tran, M.T., and Oldenbourg, R. 2018. Mapping birefringence in three dimensions using polarized light field microscopy: the case of the juvenile clamshell. J. Microsc., 271(3):315-324. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmi.12721
2019: Postdoctoral Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA
2017: PhD, Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2012: MSc, Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2008: MSc, Engineering Physics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
2006: BS, Engineering Physics, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Centre for Gifted Education, Vietnam
2012: Honorable mention for excellent teaching assistant, Brown University
2008: Vietnam International Education Development Fellowship
2007: Research scholarship at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Orleans
2007: DAAD scholarship
2006: Certificate of Merit for achieving the Excellent Academic Result