How Nanoparticles Are Used in Consumer Products: Should We Be Concerned?

Alexander Orlov

Thursday, 15 Feb 2018 at 7:00 pm – Campanile Room, Memorial Union

Alexander Orlov is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at State University of New York, Stony Brook, and a faculty member with the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research. His research focuses on the design of novel nanomaterials as well as understanding the hazards associated with nanoparticles so regulators can make informed decisions about the consumer and environmental safety of products using new technologies. Orlov’s many honors and awards include the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the U.K. National Endowment for Science Technology and Arts CRUCIBLE award. Sigma Xi Lecture Series
Alexander Orlov is an affiliate faculty of the Chemistry Department and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University, as well as a visiting professor at Cambridge University, U.K.

His other honors include being selected to the Fellowship of the U.K. Royal Society of Chemistry, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering (U.S.), and the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education. He was made a Kavli Fellow in 2014 by the Kavli Foundation and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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  • Sigma Xi
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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