
Who? What? Where? When?
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Update (!!) - the Isakovic Education and Research Group is now at Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), the institution I am happy to have joined in August 2024.
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The Isakovic Education and Research Group started in 2010 where my first faculty job was - at the newly founded KUST in Abu Dhabi.
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The Group and the associated Lab had been at Colgate University between July 2019 and June 2024, where I served as a visiting professor of physics.
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I have placed my considerable experience in building up the group and the laboratory from scratch, and in an environment that was aiming to emulate US R1 institutions, but where start-up funding didn't exist (at the time) and other support was often minimal.
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Between 2011 and 2018 I have raised over US$ 1.2 mil in external funding, trained 4 PhD students, 4 MSc students, supervised over 20 undergrad RAs, and hosted and employed 3 visiting scientists.
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Between AY 2019/2020 and AY 2023/24, 14 Colgate students have done their undergraduate thesis research in my program, and I have also involved half dozen other Colgate students (physics, computer science, biochemistry and math majors) in my lab.
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Majority of students of all levels (BSc, MSc, PhD) who worked with me so far are women and under-represented students. Similarly, more than a half of my collaborators so far were women.
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Together with my considerable experience in teaching in various environments and with varied teaching methods, I bring valuable laboratory with modern instruments and materials.