biography

Bret N. Flanders (B.S. in chemical physics, University of California, San Diego, 1993; Ph.D. in chemistry, University of Chicago, 1999; National Institutes of Health-sponsored postdoc, University of Kansas, 2002) is a soft matter physicist at Kansas State University (KSU).  Prior to joining the faculty at KSU, he was an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Oklahoma State University.  Professor Flanders has worked and published in the areas electrochemical and dielectrophoretic nanowire fabrication; cellular force and adhesion sensing; amphiphilic and nanoparticulate Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films; time-domain, far-infrared (e.g. THz) spectroscopy; and near-field microscopy.