APPOINTMENTS :

• 2001-present, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.
• 1999-2001, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Levich Institute, CCNY, New York.
• 1994-1998, Research Assistant, Northeastern University, Boston.
• 1992-1994, Teaching Assistant, Northeastern University, Boston.
• 1991, TANDAR Laboratory, Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Buenos Aires. (Research Assistant).
  

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Thermodynamics of Fluids
• Interfacial Phenomena
• Nanoparticle Mechanics
• Surfactant Dynamics
• Nanotribology Polymers
• Spreading Dynamics
• Contact Mechanics of Nanoparticles
• Crystallization of Pharmaceuticals.

PUBLICATIONS:

• Y. Shen, M. S. Tomassone, C Maldarelli, A. Couzis, J. Koplik, A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Influence of Surfactant Structure on Surfactant Facilitated Spreading of Droplets on Hydrophobic Substrates, Journal of Chemical Physics, Submitted, 2004.
• M. S. Tomassone, E. Jayjock, A. Misra,An up to date perspective on Nanotechnology Applications for Drug Delivery, Current Drug Delivery , Submitted, 2004.
• B. Chaudhuri, A. W. A. Alexandar, F. J. Muzzio, C. Davis, M. S. Tomassone , A new experimental/computational approach for examining avalanching behavior in cohesive powder flows ,Phys. Rev. Lett. , Submitted, 2004.
• A. Faqih, B. Chaudhuri,A. W. A. Alexander,F. J. Muzzio, M. S. Tomassone, Shear-induced dilation of cohesive powders in rotating vessels , Powder Technology , Submitted, 2004.
• A. W. Alexander, B. Chaudhuri, A. Faqih, C. Davies, M.S. Tomassone,F. J. Muzzio,"Shear-induced dilation of cohesive powders in rotating vessels","The gravitational displacement rheometer:An experimental/computational method for understanding cohesive powder flow",AIChE, Submitted, 2004.
• A. Dubey, G. Sharma, C. Mavroidis, M. S. Tomassone, K. Nikitczuk, M. L. Yarmush, Computational Studies of Viral Protein Nano-Actuator,Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, accepted for publication, In Press, (December 2003).
• A. Dubey, G. Sharma, C. Mavroidis,M. S. Tomassone, K. Nikitczuk, M. L. Yarmush, Dynamics and Kinematics of Viral Protein Linear Nano-Actuators for Bio-Nano Robotic Systems,Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation , New Orleans, LA, April 26-May 1, (2004).
• A. Dubey,G. Sharma, C. Mavroidis, M. S. Tomassone ,K. Nikitczuk,M. L. Yarmush, Viral Protein Linear (VPL) Nano-Actuators, Proceedings of the 2004 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show , March 7-11, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• M. S. Tomassone, C. Maldarelli, A. Couzis, and J. Koplik, Phase Transitions of Soluble Surfactants at a Liquid-Vapor Interface, Langmuir., Vol.17, No. 20, 6037-6040, 2001.
• M. S. Tomassone, C. Maldarelli, A. Couzis, J. Koplik, Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Phase Transitions of Soluble and Insoluble Surfactants at the Air-Water Interface, J. of Chem. Phys. Vol.115, No. 18, 8634-8642, 2001.
• J. B. Sokoloff , M. S. Tomassone , A. Widom, Strongly Temperature Dependent Sliding Friction for a Superconducting Interface, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 515 (2000).
• A. Widom, M. S. Tomassone, Y. N. Srivastava, and M. Hannout, Net Charge on a Noble Gas Atom, Phys. Rev. B. 64, P. 16085-16091, 2000; cond-mat/0006235 ,2000.
• M. S. Tomassone , J. B. Sokoloff, Effects of defects on friction for a Xe film sliding on Ag(111), Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) -- August 1, 1999 -- Volume 60, Issue 6, pp. 4005-4017
• J. B. Sokoloff and M. S. Tomassone , Effects of Defects on Friction for a Thin Solid Film Sliding over a Solid Substrate, Phys. Rev. B 57, 4888-4897 (1998).
• M. S. Tomassone , J. B. Sokoloff, A. Widom, and J. Krim, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Friction in Xenon Films on a Silver Substrate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 24 4798-4801. (1997).
• M. S. Tomassone , and A. Widom, Electronic Friction Forces on Molecules moving near Metals, Phys. Rev. B 56, 4938-4943 (1997).
• M. S. Tomassone, and A. Widom, Friction Forces on Charges Moving Outside a Conductor due to Ohm's Law heating inside a Conductor, American Journal of Physics 65, 1181-1183, (1997).
• M. S. Tomassone , and J. Krim, Fractal Scaling Behavior of Water Flow Patterns on Inhomogeneous Surfaces, Phys. Rev. E 54, 6511-6515 (1996).
• R. Cuerno, H. A. Makse, M. S. Tomassone, S. Harrington, and H. E. Stanley, Stochastic Model for Surface Erosion via Ion-Sputtering: Dynamical Evolution from Ripple Morphology to Rough Morphology, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4464-4476 (1995).
• R. Cuerno, H. A. Makse, M. S. Tomassone, S. T. Harrington, and H. E. Stanley, ``A Model for Ion-Sputtering: From Pattern Formation to Rough Surfaces,'' in Disordered Materials and Interfaces, Proc. Symposium of Materials Research Society, 1995, edited by H. Z. Cummins, D. J. Durian, D. L. Johnson, and H. E. Stanley (Materials Research Society, Pittsburgh, 1996), pp.~307--312.

DISSERTATIONS:

• M. S. Tomassone, Licenciatura Thesis: ``Neural Networks as a means for the Interpolation of Functions.'' August 1992,
  Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• M. S. Tomassone, Ph.D. Thesis: ``Fundamentals of Friction at the Atomic Level'',
  Boston, 1998, Northeastern University.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

• AICHE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November, 2003, "Numerical Simulations of Cohesive Powder in a Rotating Drum", B. Chaudhuri (Speaker), M. S. Tomassone, A. W. A. Alexander, C. Davis, F.J. Muzzio, contributed talk.
• AICHE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November, 2003, "Measuring Powder Cohesion and Comparison to Mixing Data", A. W. A. Alexander (Speaker), M.S. Tomassone, C. Davis, F.J. Muzzio, contributed talk.
• AICHE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November, 2003, "Numerical Simulations of Cohesive Powder in a Rotating Drum", B. Chaudhuri , M. S. Tomassone , A. W. A. Alexander, F.J. Muzzio, poster.
• AICHE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2003, "Synergism of Non-Ionic Surfactants", Ashish Misra, M. S. Tomassone, poster.
• AICHE Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IA, November, 2002, "LDL-retentive substrates: Modulating Atherogenesis at the Nanoscale", E. C. Chnari (Speaker), Y. Y. Shen, M. S. Tomassone, P. V. Moghe, contributed talk.
• AICHE Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IA, November 2002, "Molecular Dynamics of superspreading", M. S. Tomassone (Speaker), J. Koplik, C. .Maldarelli, A. Couzis, contributed talk.
• 2001 ICCS (International Conference on Conceptual Structures , Stanford University, San Francisco, July 2001, "Surfactants at the molecular scale" Joel Koplik (Speaker), M. S. Tomassone, contributed talk.
• AICHE Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, November 2001," Molecular Dynamics in Lennard Jones superspreading fluids", M. S. Tomassone (Speaker), C. Maldarelli, A.Couzis, contributed talk.
• AICHE Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, November 2000: "Exchanging ideas for innovation", "Phase transition of Soluble Surfactants at the Air/Water Interface", M. S. Tomassone (Speaker), contributed talk.
• 2000 Symposium, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2000, M. S. Tomassone (Speaker), C. Maldarelli, A. Couzis, J. Koplik, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Gaseous/Liquid Phase Transitions of Insoluble Surfactants at a Fluid Interface", contributed talk.
• 52nd annual meeting of the division of fluid dynamics, APS, New Orleans, 1999, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of spreading with surfactants", J. Koplik (Speaker), S. Mcnamara, M. S. Tomassone, J. R. Banavar, contributed talk.
• APS March Meeting, Los Angeles 1998, "Perturbation Theory on the Effect of sliding on Stepped Substrates",M.S. Tomassone (Speaker), J. Krim, J. Sokoloff, contributed talk.
• APS March Meeting, Los Angeles 1998, "Simulations of the Effect of a stepped Substrate", M.S. Tomassone (Speaker), J. B., Sokoloff, contributed talk.
• APS March Meeting, Kansas, March 1997, "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Sliding Friction for a Xe on a Silver Substrate with defects", M.S. Tomassone (Speaker), J. Krim, J. Sokoloff, contributed talk.
• Princeton University, Materials Science Institute Seminar, February 1996, "Model for Erosion via Ion-Sputtering: from Pattern Formation to Rough Surfaces", R. Cuerno, H. Makse, (Speaker), M.S.Tomassone , contributed talk.
• MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, 1996, "Erosion via Ion-Sputtering: from Pattern Formation to Rough Surfaces", R. Cuerno, H. Makse, M.S. Tomassone , H.E. Stanley, poster.
• APS March Meeting, St. Louis, 1996, "Erosion via Ion-Sputtering: from Pattern Formation to Rough Surfaces", H. Makse (Speaker), R. Cuerno, M.S. Tomassone , H. E. Stanley, contributed talk.
• APS March Meeting, St. Louis, March 1996,"Electronic Friction for Xe films sliding along a metal substrate", M. S. Tomassone , A. Widom, poster.
• APS March Meeting, St. Louis, March 1996, "Simulations on Phonon Contributions to Friction for Xe/Ag", M.S. Tomassone (Speaker), Krim, J., contributed talk.
• STATPHYS 19, Xiamen, China, 1995, "Stochastic model for ion-sputtered systems: from pattern formation to rough surfaces", H. Makse , R. Cuerno, M.S. Tomassone, H.E. Stanley, Poster
• MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, 1995. "Stochastic model for ion-sputtered systems: from pattern formation to rough surfaces", H. Makse (Speaker), R. Cuerno, M.S. Tomassone , H.E. Stanley.
• APS March Meeting, Pittsburg, March 1995, "Fractal Scaling Behavior of Water Flow Patterns in inhomogeneous Surfaces", contributed talk, M.S.Tomassone (Speaker) J. Krim.

INVITED TALKS:

• "Surfactant assisted Spreading on Hydrophobic Surfaces", TRI Princeton, Princeton, NJ, April 4th, 2002.
• "Using Molecular Dynamics to Understand Phase Behavior of Surfactants and Spreading of Fluids", Exxon-Mobil, NJ, April 29th, 2002.
• "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Gaseous-Liquid Transitions of Soluble and Insoluble Surfactants at a Fluid Interface", Pharmacia-Up John:, May 16th, 2002.
• Continuous Flow Induced Phase Inversion, Merck, West Point, PA, July 2002.
• Molecules, Surfaces and Droplets:Using Molecular Dynamics to Understand Phase Behavior of Surfactants and Spreading of Liquids. Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, Piscataway, March 2001.
• Molecular Dynamics Approaches to Understand the Behavior of Nanoparticles adsorbed on Surfaces, Pharmaceutical Engineering Open House: Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, Piscataway, NJ, October 2001.
• Phase Transitions of Surfactant Molecules at the Air/Water Interface, Levich Institute, Seminar Series, City College of New York, NY, March 2000.

RESEARCH GRANTS:

• Start up package , ($313,000), 2001.
• Merck Excellence Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Development Award. ($90,000), 2002.
  
• NSF grant, BES 0201788
  
  • Title: "Nanoscale engineering of LDL Retentive Substrates", 2002.
  • Role: Co-PI with P. Moghe(PI), K. Urich and Y. Lu)
  • Amount: $297,000 ; Co-PI Share: $10,000
  • Duration: 9/1/2002-8/31/2005
• Johnson & Johnson Inc.
  
  • Title: "Analysis of flow properties of granulated drugs", 2003.
  • Role: Co-PI with F. J. Muzzio(PI)
  • Amount: $50,000, Co-PI Share: $25,000
  • Duration: 03/2003 - 02/2004
• Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
  
  • Title: "Scale-up of blenders based on granular flow properties", 2003.
  • Role: Co-PI with F. J. Muzzio(PI)
  • Amount: $105,000
  • Duration: 08/2003 - 07/2004
• NSF NER
  
  • Title: "Continuous Flow Induced Phase Inversion: "A new method for manufacturing drug delivery biopolymer nanoparticles", 2003.
  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Amount: $100,000
  • Duration: 10/2003 - 09/2004
• NSF NIRT
  
  • Title: "Bio-Nano Robotic Systems using Viral Protein Nano Motors", 2003.
  • Role: Co-PI with C. Mavroidis(PI)
  • Amount: $1000,000, Co-PI Share: $180,000
  • Duration: 10/2003 - 09/2007
• New Jersey Consortium for Catalyst Manufacturing
  
  • Title: "Granulation", 2004.
  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Amount: $50,000
  • Duration: 3/10/2004 - 09/30/2004
• New Jersey Consortium for Catalyst Manufacturing
  
  • Title: "Calcination", 2004.
  • Role: Co-PI with F. J. Muzzio(PI)
  • Amount: $50,000
  • Duration: 3/10/2004 - 09/30/2004

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES:

• Director of Center of Computing Laboratory at the Chemical Engineering Department at Rutgers University.
• Reviewer in NSF Panels, numerous international journals and conferences.
• Fellow of the Douglass Project for the Rutgers Women in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering.
• Advisor to undergraduate students in summer research.
• Session Chair and Co-Chair in AICHE.

GRADUATE STUDENTS & POST-DOCTORAL MAJOR ADVISEES:

• Graduate Students:
  
  • Yangyang Shen
  • Ashish Misra
  • Eric Jayjock
  • Atul Dubey
• Postdocs:
  
  • Bo Li
  • Bodhisattwa Chaudhuri
• Undergraduates:
  
  • Jamar Tyndale
  • Ben Reinecke
  • Melissa De Mattia
  • Jennifer Yam
  • David Brain

AWARDS AND HONORS

• 1996-1998 Northeastern University Graduate Student Fellowship.
• 2001 Merck Excellence Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Development Award.
• 2002 Rutgers FASIP Award for Teaching, Research, and Service

COLLABORATORS (48 Months):

• Ph.D. Advisors: Profs. J. Krim and J. Sokoloff
• Post Doctoral Advisor: Prof. J. Koplik (City College of New York)
• Prof. C. Maldarelli, (City College of New York)
• Prof. A. Couzis (City College of New York)
• Prof. Fernando J. Muzzio (Rutgers University)
• Prof. Prabhas Moghe (Rutgers University)
• Prof. Kathrin Urich (Rutgers University)
• Dr. Alexander Neimark (TRI Princeton)
• Prof. Martin Yarmush (Rutgers University)
• Prof. Fotis Papadimitrakopoulos(University of Connecticut)
• Prof. Dinos Mavroidis(Rutgers University)
• Prof. Jing Li (Rutgers University)
• Dr.Arthur Chester