BU highlights BUnano Fellow Monan Ma’s research
Monan Ma: Making Big Waves with Nanotechnology in the Ekinci Lab | Photonics Center
Monan Ma researches phenomena on the nanometer scale, but he’s no small figure at the Boston University Photonics Center. …. “When you start out doing something cross-disciplinary, it sounds great on paper,” he says, “but when you actually do it, there’s always a risk factor, because you’re talking to experts in different fields who might focus on different aspects of the project––and they might think in different terms. So having that fellowship support gives you the freedom to pursue what you want.”
Ma isn’t only passionate about collaboration in his lab, but also in the broader community. During his first two years at BU, he served as the Vice President of the Graduate Student Organization, working to strengthen the graduate student community. He collaborated across universities, working with the GSOs at MIT, Northeastern, and Tufts.