M. Silvina Tomassone

•    Surfactant morphology and dynamics
•    Nanoparticles (clean and in suspension)
•    Particle shape monitoring and control in crystallization processes using MD
•    Bio-Nano Robotics
•    Granular Materials

•    Pfizer Young Faculty Award $35,000, 2006
•    NSF IGERT in Nanopharmaceutical, ($3.4MM), 2005
•    NSF NIRT, "Environmentally Benign Mixing of Nanoparticles"($1.2MM), PI: R. Dave (NJIT), Co-PI's: S. Tomassone, S. Sundaresan, R. Pfeffer, 2005
•    US Army, ($97K), Flow Properties of Energetic Granular Materials", 2005
•    Merck Excellence Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Development Award, ($90,000), 2002
•    NSF NER Award, ($100,000), Continuous Manufacturing of Polymer Encapsulated Nanoparticles using FIPI, 2003
•    NSF grant, BES 0201788, Title: "Nanoscale engineering of LDL Retentive Substrates", 2002 (in collaboration with P. Moghe (PI), K. Urich and Y. Lu) Amount: $297,000, Duration: 9/1/2002-8/31/2005
•    NSF NIRT, "Bio-Nano Robotic Systems using Viral Protein nano MOtors"($1 Million), Role: Co-PI (PI: C. Mavroidis) $ 1 million Duration: 9/1/2003-8/31/2007

•    2006 Teaching Excellence Award
•    2005 Rutgers FASIP Award for Research, Teaching and Service
•    2005 NSF IGERT Co-Director of the Nanopharmaceutical Program
•    2004 Rutgers FASIP Award for Research, Teaching and Service
•    2002 Rutgers FASIP Award for Research, Teaching and Service
•    SROA Competition, in the Tissue/Biomaterials Engineering area. "Nanosubstrates for Sequestration of Low Density Lipoproteins.", 2002 (in collaboration with P. Moghe, K. Urich,Y. Lu)
•    1996-1998 Northeastern University Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship

•    2001-Present Associate Professor, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

•    Ph. D., Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, 1998
•    M.S., Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, 1994
•    "Licenciatura'' in Physics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1992