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. David Mogk

Research Scientist

Bio

Dr. David Mogk earned his B.S. at the University of Michigan in 1975, whereupon he obtained both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Washington. His research centers around the formation and evolution of the continental crust; Archean Geology; mid-crustal petrogenetic processes; mineral analysis and spectroscopy of mineral surfaces; and research on learning in the geosciences.

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.