I have 8 years of experience, and specialize in the field of materials science with specific knowledge in the areas of surface science, self assmebled monolayers and sol-gel chemistry, chirality, polymorphism and crystallization and SERS, Raman, QCM-D, XRD and ITC, NSOM. I have published on such topics as chiral separations on self assembled monolayers by crystallization, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and near field scanning optical microscopy. I have testified on X-ray diffraction and Raman. I developed a unique high resolution optical technique for detection of chirality in the solid phase, called polarized near field scanning optical microscopy (P-NSOM).