{"id":17,"date":"2017-04-05T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2024-05-18T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T00:25:45","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/files\/2017\/04\/cfab43_8ee4ea6dfa6241cd9e11c55f0b876130-mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/files\/2017\/04\/cfab43_8ee4ea6dfa6241cd9e11c55f0b876130-mv2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/files\/2017\/04\/cfab43_8ee4ea6dfa6241cd9e11c55f0b876130-mv2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Born and raised in the Golden Isles area of Georgia, I&#8217;ve always had a special place in my heart for the Southeast; marshy beaches, toasty summers, and southern hospitality were truly the staples of my early life. Staying in Georgia for my college education, I studied mechanical engineering for my undergraduate degree, and after working in manufacturing engineering for three years I decided to pivot towards a more research-oriented career path, which eventually led me to graduate school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I worked in the Nanomaterials Fabrication Research Lab at Notre Dame (<em>with Dr. Svetlana Neretina and Dr. Robert Hughes<\/em>) for the duration of my Ph.D. creating new fabrication techniques for manufacturing highly-active epitaxial plasmonic devices geared towards realizing the next generation of sensing, catalytic, and photovoltaic technology. I am particularly interested in physical phenomena at the nanoscale, especially with regards to materials for computing\/electronics and I studied how processing and fabrication techniques can lead to subsequent shape, size, composition, and crystallinity control specifically at the nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m not in the lab\/classroom you will probably find me tinkering around with my PC, mountain biking, flying FPV drones, walking my dog, or chasing the cloudless night!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/files\/2017\/04\/cfab43_341ca01b8d1e4907b47ceb06aeb230dd-mv2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/files\/2017\/04\/cfab43_341ca01b8d1e4907b47ceb06aeb230dd-mv2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/files\/2017\/04\/cfab43_341ca01b8d1e4907b47ceb06aeb230dd-mv2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Juna, my colorado mountain dog! (<em>130lbs of beefy goodness<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in the Golden Isles area of Georgia, I&#8217;ve always had a special place in my heart for the Southeast; marshy beaches, toasty summers, and southern hospitality were truly the staples of my early life. Staying in Georgia for my college education, I studied mechanical engineering for my undergraduate degree, and after working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2550,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/robert-d-neal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}