ICAL Staff

Dr. Recep Avci
ICAL Director
Bio
Earning his B.S. in Istanbul University, Dr. Avci then went on to recieve his M.S. and Ph.D. (1978) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Avci has over 100 published articles and two book chapters in a wide variety of subjects. His areas of expertise include the study of the fundamental and applied aspects of bulk and bio-materials, as well as surfaces and interfaces, using a wide variety of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques. Recent interests include the role of metallurgy in the bio-deterioration of metals and alloys.

Dr. Sara Maccagnano-Zacher
ICAL Facility Manager
Bio
Sara began her scientific career using the ToF-SIMS instrument as an undergraduate physics student in ICAL at MSU. She obtained her BS in Physics at MSU-Bozeman in 2003, and her MS (2008) and PhD (2009) in Applied Physics and Engineering from Cornell University. Her graduate work centered on electron microscopy (and particularly the scanning transmission electron microscope, STEM) and the study of materials such as quantum dots.