Ben Cerjan
Former scientist with expertise in nanofabrication, scientific computing, scientific instrumentation, spectroscopy, and app development. Available for hire now!
Skills
- Cleanroom Fabrication
- Electron-beam Microscopy and Lithography, RIE, Ellipsometry
- SQL
- Mathematica
- MATLAB
- CAD
- meep
- php
- LabVIEW
- javascript
- jQuery
- git
- linux
- NGINX
- Flutter
- C/C++
- Electronics
- Optical Systems
- 3D Printing
- Microcontrollers
Creations
Itereat
Itereat is a recipe website for people who want to itereate on their recipes (think GitHub, but for recipes).
simpleFDTD
simpleFDTD is an open source web-embeddable 2-D finite-difference time-domain electromagnetic simulation.
Easy Match
Easy Match is an open-source privacy-conscious tool for helping people find names that they both love.
meepGUI
meepGUI is a website that helps visualize the geometry used in an FDTD simulation using meep
Spread Spectrum Raman Spectroscopy
Application to automate control of experimental equipment and data processing for performing spread-spectrum Raman spectroscopy.
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Publications
Article - Stretchable Metamaterials with Tamm/Fano Resonances for Tunable, Efficient Mechanochromic Color Shifting
Article - Towards Scalable Plasmonic Fano-Resonant Metasurfaces for Colorimetric Sensing
Article - Toward a Nanophotonic Nose: A Compressive Sensing-Enhanced, Optoelectronic Mid-Infrared Spectrometer
Article - Asymmetric Aluminum Antennas for Self-Calibrating Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy
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Experience
Scientific Programmer
Independent consultant working on challenging interfaces between hardware and software for scientific research. Also some app development on the side.
Instrumentation Specialist
Working with researchers in the Chemistry department to design, modify, and/or fabricate new tools for scientific research.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Scalable nanophotonics, nanoparticle functionalization and characerization, metasurface colorimetry and spectroscopy.
Graduate Researcher
Cleanroom fabrication; visible, ultraviolet, and infrared spectroscopy; finite-element and finite-difference time-domain simulations; data analytics and compressive sensing algorithm development; manager of and lead trainer on essential research equipment.
Research Intern / Undergraduate Researcher
Design and fabrication of hardware necessary for optofluidics and UV lithography projects, leadership and guidance for undergraduate researchers, machined and specified optical components.
Computer Support Staff
Maintained computer platforms for students and faculty, wrote assorted scripts as required for the department, familiarity with a range of operating systems (Windows/Mac/Unix)