Ali Rafiei Miandashti graduated from the University of Sistan and Baluchestan with a B.Sc. in Chemistry, and from the University of Kashan, Iran with an M.Sc. degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Professor Hugh H. Richardson at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University. Susil Baral received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Chemistry) degrees from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He later completed his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, under the instruction of Professor Hugh H. Richardson. Susil is currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate at Professor Peng Chen’s lab at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University. Eva Yazmin Santiago graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) with a B.Sc. in Physics. She is currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Professor Alexander Govorov at the Department of Physics, Ohio University. Larousse Khosravi Khorashad received his B.Sc. from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and M.Sc. degree from Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. He later completed his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University under supervision of Professor Alexander O. Govorov. After one year as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California San Diego, he is now working as a postdoctoral associate at Professor Govorov’s lab at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ohio University. Alexander Govorov is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Ohio University in the U.S. and a Chang Jiang Chair Professor at the UESTC in Chengdu, China. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the recipient of several international awards including the Walton Visitor Award (Ireland), the 1000-Talent Award (Sichuan, China), the Jacques-Beaulieu Excellence Research Chair Award (Canada), etc. Hugh Richardson received his Ph.D. degree from Oklahoma State University under the direction of Paul Devlin and subsequent postdoctoral training at Indiana University working with George Ewing. He is currently a Professor of Physical Chemistry at Ohio University.
